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利用类星体的红外光度测量类星体的消光比

Measuring the Fraction of Obscured Quasars by the Infrared Luminosity of Unobscured Quasars

Ezequiel Treister, Julian H. Krolik, Cornelis Dullemond

摘要:

最近的研究表明,活动星系核被遮蔽的部分随着光度的增加而减少,但这一趋势很难量化。在这里,我们试图测量这一部分作为光度的函数,通过研究中红外的比例,在未被遮蔽的活动星系核的内在核辐射热光度。由于中红外线是由尘埃对较短波长的核光进行再处理而产生的,因此该比率是f_obsc的诊断,f_obsc是被遮蔽物质覆盖的原子核周围的立体角的分数。为了消除可能的红移依赖性,同时也实现了大的动态范围的光度,我们收集了档案24微米MIPS测光从对象与z~1在斯隆数字巡天(SDSS),大天文台起源深巡天(GOODS)和宇宙演化巡天(COSMOS)。为了测量每个物体的热光度,我们使用了由GALEX数据补充的档案光学数据。我们发现,在L_bol=10^44-3x10^47尔格·s^-1的范围内,24微米与测辐射热光度的平均比值减小了约3倍,但在L_bol恒定时,散射也很大。使用辐射传输模型的几何形状的解决方案,我们展示了如何IR/测辐射热比与f_obsc和比较这些值与从X射线选择AGN的样品中获得的。虽然我们发现近似的协议,我们的方法表明有点较高的值的f_obsc,特别是在中间范围的光度,这表明可能有大量的严重模糊的活动星系核错过了X射线调查。

英文摘要:

Recent work has suggested that the fraction of obscured AGN declines with increasing luminosity, but it has been difficult to quantify this trend. Here, we attempt to measure this fraction as a function of luminosity by studying the ratio of mid-infrared to intrinsic nuclear bolometric luminosity in unobscured AGN. Because the mid-infrared is created by dust reprocessing of shorter wavelength nuclear light, this ratio is a diagnostic of f_obsc, the fraction of solid angle around the nucleus covered by obscuring matter. In order to eliminate possible redshift-dependences while also achieving a large dynamic range in luminosity, we have collected archival 24 micron MIPS photometry from objects with z~1 in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS), the Great Observatories Origins Deep Survey (GOODS) and the Cosmic Evolution Survey (COSMOS). To measure the bolometric luminosity for each object, we used archival optical data supplemented by GALEX data. We find that the mean ratio of 24 microns to bolometric luminosity decreases by a factor of ~3 in the L_bol=10^44-3x10^47 ergs s^-1 range, but there is also a large scatter at constant L_bol. Using radiation transfer solutions for model geometries, we show how the IR/bolometric ratio relates to f_obsc and compare these values with those obtained obtained from samples of X-ray selected AGN. Although we find approximate agreement, our method indicates somewhat higher values of f_obsc, particularly in the middle range of luminosities, suggesting that there may be a significant number of heavily obscured AGN missed by X-ray surveys.

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