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类星体光学偏振和宿主星系/扩展发射位置角之间相关性的1型/2型二分法的证据

Evidence for a Type 1/Type 2 dichotomy in the correlation between quasar optical polarization and host galaxy/extended emission position angles

B. Borguet, D. Hutsemékers, G. Letawe, Y. Letawe, P. Magain

摘要:

对于Seyfert星系,AGN统一模型通过方向效应提供了一个简单而完善的解释。这个统一模型的推广到更高光度的活动星系核,即类星体仍然是一个关键问题。最近发现的第二类射电宁静类星体似乎支持这样的扩展。我们建议进一步测试这种情况。汇编类星体的宿主星系的位置角的基础上,包括以前公布的数据和新的测量进行使用HST档案图像,我们调查的可能存在的线性偏振位置角和类星体的宿主星系/扩展发射位置角之间的相关性。我们发现,类星体的静止坐标系紫外/蓝光扩展辐射的方向与类星体的偏振方向相关。对于1型类星体,偏振与扩展的UV/蓝色发射对准,而这两个量在2型物体中是垂直的。这个结果与类星体的射电响度无关。我们解释这种(反)对齐效果的散射在两个组件的极性+赤道模型,适用于类型1和类型2的对象。此外,偏振的方向-然后是紫外/蓝色散射光的方向-似乎与近红外图像测量的宿主星系的恒星成分的主轴不相关。

英文摘要:

For Seyfert galaxies, the AGN unification model provides a simple and well established explanation of the Type 1/Type 2 dichotomy through orientation based effects. The generalization of this unification model to the higher luminosity AGNs that are the quasars remains a key question. The recent detection of Type 2 Radio-Quiet quasars seems to support such an extension. We propose to further test this scenario. On the basis of a compilation of quasar host galaxy position angles consisting of previously published data and of new measurements performed using HST Archive images, we investigate the possible existence of a correlation between the linear polarization position angle and the host galaxy/extended emission position angle of quasars. We find that the orientation of the rest-frame UV/blue extended emission is correlated to the direction of the quasar polarization. For Type 1 quasars, the polarization is aligned with the extended UV/blue emission while these two quantities are perpendicular in Type 2 objects. This result is independent of the quasar radio-loudness. We interpret this (anti-)alignment effect in terms of scattering in a two-component polar+equatorial model which applies to both Type 1 and Type 2 objects. Moreover the orientation of the polarization -and then of the UV/blue scattered light- does not appear correlated to the major axis of the stellar component of the host galaxy measured from near-IR images.

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