Evidence for Merger-driven Growth in Luminous, High-z, Obscured AGNs in the CANDELS/COSMOS Field
Evidence for Merger-driven Growth in Luminous, High-z, Obscured AGNs in the CANDELS/COSMOS Field
Abstract While major mergers have long been proposed as a driver of both active galactic nucleus (AGN) activity and the <?CDATA ${M}_{\mathrm{BH}}\mbox{--}{\sigma }_{\mathrm{bulge}}$?> relation, studies of moderate to high-redshift Seyfert-luminosity AGN hosts have found little evidence for enhanced rates of interactions. However, both theory and observation suggest that while these …