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远X射线发光AGN的Spitzer中红外光谱

Spitzer Mid-Infrared Spectroscopy of Distant X-ray Luminous AGN

Kate Brand, Dan W. Weedman, Vandana Desai, Emeric Le Floc'h, Lee Armus, Arjun Dey, Jim R. Houck, Buell T. Jannuzi, Howard A. Smith, B. T. Soifer

摘要:

我们目前的中红外光谱样品的16个光学微弱的红外发光星系获得的红外光谱仪(IRS)的斯皮策太空望远镜。这些源是从NDWFS Bootes场的斯皮策和钱德拉成像巡天中联合选出的,并从它们的明亮X射线通量中选出,以承载发光活动星系核。没有一个光谱显示出明显的多环芳烃(PAHs; 6.2 μ m等效宽度<0.2 μ m)的发射,这与它们的红外发射主要由活动星系核控制一致。其中9个X射线源具有9.7 μ m硅酸盐吸收特征。它们的红移在0.9<z<2.6的范围内,意味着红外光度log(L{IR})=12.5-13.6太阳光度。硅酸盐的平均吸收强度不如以前的目标光学微弱的红外发光星系具有类似的中红外光度,这意味着X射线选择有利于来源背后的一个较小的柱的富硅尘埃比非X射线选择。七个X射线源具有无特征的幂律中红外光谱。我们认为,无特征的光谱可能是由于源具有弱或不存在的硅酸盐和PAH功能,而不是在较高的红移,这些功能被转移到IRS光谱窗口的来源。我们调查是否有任何X射线和红外性能之间的相关性,并发现与硅酸盐吸收功能的源往往有较弱的X射线通量和较硬的X射线光谱,表明之间的弱关系的硅酸盐吸收量和柱密度的X射线吸收气体。

英文摘要:

We present mid-infrared spectroscopy of a sample of 16 optically faint infrared luminous galaxies obtained with the Infrared Spectrograph (IRS) on the Spitzer Space Telescope. These sources were jointly selected from Spitzer and Chandra imaging surveys in the NDWFS Bootes field and were selected from their bright X-ray fluxes to host luminous AGN. None of the spectra show significant emission from polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs; 6.2um equivalent widths <0.2um), consistent with their infrared emission being dominated by AGN. Nine of the X-ray sources show 9.7um silicate absorption features. Their redshifts are in the range 0.9<z<2.6, implying infrared luminosities of log(L{IR})=12.5-13.6 solar luminosities. The average silicate absorption strength is not as strong as that of previously targeted optically faint infrared luminous galaxies with similar mid-infrared luminosities implying that the X-ray selection favors sources behind a smaller column of Si-rich dust than non-X-ray selection. Seven of the X-ray sources have featureless power-law mid-IR spectra. We argue that the featureless spectra likely result from the sources having weak or absent silicate and PAH features rather than the sources lying at higher redshifts where these features are shifted out of the IRS spectral window. We investigate whether there are any correlations between X-ray and infrared properties and find that sources with silicate absorption features tend to have fainter X-ray fluxes and harder X-ray spectra, indicating a weak relation between the amount of silicate absorption and column density of X-ray-absorbing gas.

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