The PEP Survey: Infrared Properties of Radio-Selected AGN
  By exploiting the VLA-COSMOS and the Herschel-PEP surveys, we investigate the
Far Infrared (FIR) properties of radio-selected AGN. To this purpose, from
VLA-COSMOS we considered the 1537, F[1.4 GHz]>0.06 mJy sources with a reliable
redshift estimate, and sub-divided them into star-forming galaxies and AGN
solely on the basis of their radio luminosity. The AGN sample is complete with
respect to radio selection at all z<~3.5. 832 radio sources have a counterpart
in the PEP catalogue. 175 are AGN. Their redshift distribution closely
resembles that of the total radio-selected AGN population, and exhibits two
marked peaks at z~0.9 and z~2.5. We find that the probability for a
radio-selected AGN to be detected at FIR wavelengths is both a function of
radio power and redshift, whereby powerful sources are more likely to be FIR
emitters at earlier epochs. This is due to two distinct effects: 1) at all
radio luminosities, FIR activity monotonically increases with look-back time
and 2) radio activity of AGN origin is increasingly less effective at
inhibiting FIR emission. Radio-selected AGN with FIR emission are
preferentially located in galaxies which are smaller than those hosting
FIR-inactive sources. Furthermore, at all z<~2, there seems to be a
preferential (stellar) mass scale M ~[10^{10}-10^{11}] Msun which maximizes the
chances for FIR emission. We find such FIR (and MIR) emission to be due to
processes indistinguishable from those which power star-forming galaxies. It
follows that radio emission in at least 35% of the entire AGN population is the
sum of two contributions: AGN accretion and star-forming processes within the
host galaxy.
