Radio-AGN Feedback : When the Little Ones were Monsters

Williams, W. L. and Röttgering, H. J. A. (2015) Radio-AGN Feedback : When the Little Ones were Monsters. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (MNRAS), 450 (2). pp. 1538-1545. ISSN 0035-8711
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We present a study of the evolution of the fraction of radio-loud active galactic nuclei (AGN) as a function of their host stellar mass. We make use of two samples of radio galaxies: one in the local universe, $0.01 10^{24}$ W/Hz at z ~ 1-2 while the radio-loud fraction for higher mass galaxies ($M_* > 10^{11.25}$ M$_{\odot}$) remains the same. We argue that this increase is driven largely by the increase in cold or radiative mode accretion with increasing cold gas supply at earlier epochs. The increasing population of low mass Radio-Loud AGN can thus explain the upturn in the Radio Luminosity Function (RLF) at high redshift which is important for understanding the impact of AGN feedback in galaxy evolution.


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