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来自SDSS和FIRST的BL Lacs的大样本

A Large Sample of BL Lacs from SDSS and FIRST

Richard M. Plotkin, Scott F. Anderson, Patrick B. Hall, Bruce Margon, Wolfgang Voges, Donald P. Schneider, Gregory Stinson, Donald G. York

摘要:

我们从斯隆数字巡天(SDSS)数据发布5光谱学和20厘米射电天空(FIRST)无线电巡天的微弱图像的组合中提出了501个无线电选择的BL Lac候选者的大样本;这是迄今为止组装的最大的BL Lac样本之一,每个对象都有均匀的数据覆盖。每个候选者在来自FIRST的无线电中被检测到,并且在SDSS光谱学中被确认为具有:(1)没有测量的静止等效宽度大于5埃的发射特征;以及(2)没有测量的Ca II H/K降低大于40%。我们将样本细分为426个置信度较高的候选人和75个置信度较低的候选人。我们认为,来自正式通过我们选择标准的其他类别物体的污染很小,并且我们发现了一些非常罕见的射电活动星系核,它们具有不寻常的光谱,可能与宽吸收线类星体有关。大约五分之一的样本在SDSS之前是已知的BL Lac。对样本的初步分析通常支持标准的波束范例。虽然我们恢复相当数量的低能量和中等能量的截止BL Lacs(LBLs和IBLs,分别),有迹象表明,对恢复高能量的截止BL Lacs(HBLs)从SDSS光谱的潜在偏见。如此大的样本可能最终会提供新的约束BL Lac统一模型和它们潜在的独特的宇宙演化;特别是,我们的样本包含了大量的高红移物体,一个子群的标准范式尚未严格约束。

英文摘要:

We present a large sample of 501 radio-selected BL Lac candidates from the combination of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) Data Release 5 optical spectroscopy and from the Faint Images of the Radio Sky at Twenty-Centimeters (FIRST) radio survey; this is one of the largest BL Lac samples yet assembled, and each object emerges with homogeneous data coverage. Each candidate is detected in the radio from FIRST and confirmed in SDSS optical spectroscopy to have: (1) no emission feature with measured rest equivalent width larger than 5 Angstroms; and (2) no measured Ca II H/K depression larger than 40%. We subdivide our sample into 426 higher confidence candidates and 75 lower confidence candidates. We argue that contamination from other classes of objects that formally pass our selection criteria is small, and we identify a few very rare radio AGN with unusual spectra that are probably related to broad absorption line quasars. About one-fifth of our sample were known BL Lacs prior to the SDSS. A preliminary analysis of the sample generally supports the standard beaming paradigm. While we recover sizable numbers of low-energy and intermediate-energy cutoff BL Lacs (LBLs and IBLs, respectively), there are indications of a potential bias toward recovering high-energy cutoff BL Lacs (HBLs) from SDSS spectroscopy. Such a large sample may eventually provide new constraints on BL Lac unification models and their potentially peculiar cosmic evolution; in particular, our sample contains a significant number of higher redshift objects, a sub-population for which the standard paradigm has yet to be rigorously constrained.

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