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The growth of supermassive black holes is strongly linked to their galaxies. It has been shown that the population mean black-hole accretion rate (BHAR) primarily correlates with the galaxy stellar mass (M_) and redshift for the general galaxy population. This work aims to provide the best measurements of BHAR as a function of M_ and redshift over ranges of 10^9. 5<M_<10^12~M_ and z<4. We compile an unprecedentedly large sample with eight thousand active galactic nuclei (AGNs) and 1. 3 million normal galaxies from nine high-quality survey fields following a wedding-cake design. We further develop a semiparametric Bayesian method that can reasonably estimate BHAR and the corresponding uncertainties, even for sparsely populated regions in the parameter space. BHAR is constrained by X-ray surveys sampling the AGN accretion power and UV-to-infrared multi-wavelength surveys sampling the galaxy population. Our results can independently predict the X-ray luminosity function (XLF) from the galaxy stellar mass function (SMF), and the prediction is consistent with the observed XLF. We also try adding external constraints from the observed SMF and XLF. We further measure BHAR for star-forming and quiescent galaxies and show that star-forming BHAR is generally larger than or at least comparable to the quiescent BHAR.
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