Investigating the Effect of Galaxy Interactions on AGN Enhancement at $0.5<z<3.0$

Galaxy interactions and mergers are thought to play an important role in the evolution of galaxies. Studies in the nearby universe show a higher AGN fraction in interacting and merging galaxies than their isolated counterparts, indicating that such interactions are important contributors to black hole growth. To investigate the evolution of this role at higher redshifts, we have compiled the largest known sample of major spectroscopic galaxy pairs (2381 with $\Delta V <5000$ km s$^{-1}$) at $0.5

Keywords:

• Galaxy merger
• Physics
• Galaxy
• Black hole
• Universe
• Relative velocity
• Astrophysics
• control sample
• Redshift
• Luminosity

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