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某些2型类星体的宿主星系中大量的光学遮蔽恒星形成

Large amounts of optically-obscured star formation in the host galaxies of some type-2 quasars

M. Lacy, A. Sajina, A. O. Petric, N. Seymour, G. Canalizo, S. E. Ridgway, L. Armus, L. J. Storrie-Lombardi

摘要:

我们目前的哈勃太空望远镜的图像,光谱能量分布从光学到红外波长的6个0.3<z<0.8的2型类星体的样本选择在中红外使用斯皮策太空望远镜的数据。所有的宿主星系都显示出一些扰动的迹象。大多数似乎拥有尘埃,恒星形成盘。盘的倾角,估计从主机的轴比,与硅酸盐功能在中红外光谱的深度,这意味着至少有一些对AGN的变红出现在宿主星系。根据PAH特征和远红外连续光谱的强度推断,这些天体的恒星形成率在3-90 Msun/年之间,但由于遮蔽,大多数都比从[OII]3727发射线光度推断的要大得多。结合对光学和X射线样本中2型类星体宿主的研究,这与以前的建议一致,即2型类星体种群中有两种类型的消光过程,即由于活动星系核周围环境中的尘埃环而产生的成分,以及由于尘埃,恒星形成盘而产生的更广泛的成分。

英文摘要:

We present Hubble Space Telescope images, and spectral energy distributions from optical to infrared wavelengths for a sample of six 0.3<z<0.8 type-2 quasars selected in the mid-infrared using data from the Spitzer Space Telescope. All the host galaxies show some signs of disturbance. Most seem to possess dusty, star-forming disks. The disk inclination, estimated from the axial ratio of the hosts, correlates with the depth of the silicate feature in the mid-infrared spectra, implying that at least some of the reddening towards the AGN arises in the host galaxy. The star formation rates in these objects, as inferred from the strengths of the PAH features and far-infrared continuum, range from 3-90 Msun/yr, but are mostly much larger than those inferred from the [OII]3727 emission line luminosity, due to obscuration. Taken together with studies of type-2 quasar hosts from samples selected in the optical and X-ray, this is consistent with previous suggestions that two types of extinction processes operate within the type-2 quasar population, namely a component due to the dusty torus in the immediate environment of the AGN, and a more extended component due to a dusty, star forming disk.

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