Environmental Dependence of Different Colors of Active Galactic Nucleus (AGN) Host Galaxies

Abstract

Using the apparent-magnitude limited active galactic nucleus (AGN) host galaxy sample of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data Release 12 (SDSS DR12), we investigate the environmental dependence of the u-r, u-g, g-r, r-i and i-z colors of AGN host galaxies. We divide the whole apparent-magnitude limited AGN sample into many subsamples with a redshift binning size of ?z = 0.01, and analyze the environmental dependence of all five galaxy colors of subsamples in each redshift bin. It turns out that overall, all five galaxy colors of AGN host galaxies are weakly correlated with the local environment.