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宽吸收线类星体分数的强红移依赖

A strong redshift dependence of the broad absorption line quasar fraction

James T. Allen, Paul C. Hewett, Natasha Maddox, Gordon T. Richards, Vasily Belokurov

摘要:

我们描述了应用非负矩阵分解产生紧凑的重建类星体光谱的斯隆数字巡天(SDSS),特别是宽吸收线类星体(BALQSO)。BAL性能的测量SiIV Al_2O_3 1400,CIV Al_2O_3 1550,Al III Al_2O_3 1860和Mg II Al_2O_3 2800,导致3547 BALQSO的目录。两个修正,合成BALQSO光谱的广泛测试的基础上,应用,以估计CIV BALQSO的本征分数。首先,我们的算法被确定为这样的观测BALQSO光谱的概率计算作为一个函数的红移,信噪比和BAL属性。其次,定量分析了BALQSO和非BAL类星体的SDSS目标选择算法的完备性差异。考虑到这些选择效应,本征CIV BALQSO分数为41+/-5%.我们对选择效应的分析使我们能够测量本征CIV BALQSO分数对光度和红移的依赖性。我们发现,从最高红移z~4.0到z~2.0,本征分数减少了3.5+/-0.4倍。红移的依赖性意味着,单独的取向效应是不足以解释BAL槽的存在,在一些,但不是所有的类星体光谱。我们的结果与本征BALQSO分数没有强烈的光度依赖性是一致的,尽管我们对光度为-6.9%和7.0% dex^-1的本征分数的变化率设定了3 σ极限,但我们无法排除这种依赖性。

英文摘要:

We describe the application of non-negative matrix factorisation to generate compact reconstructions of quasar spectra from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS), with particular reference to broad absorption line quasars (BALQSOs). BAL properties are measured for SiIV lambda1400, CIV lambda1550, AlIII lambda1860 and MgII lambda2800, resulting in a catalogue of 3547 BALQSOs. Two corrections, based on extensive testing of synthetic BALQSO spectra, are applied in order to estimate the intrinsic fraction of CIV BALQSOs. First, the probability of an observed BALQSO spectrum being identified as such by our algorithm is calculated as a function of redshift, signal-to-noise ratio and BAL properties. Second, the different completenesses of the SDSS target selection algorithm for BALQSOs and non-BAL quasars are quantified. Accounting for these selection effects the intrinsic CIV BALQSO fraction is 41+/-5 per cent. Our analysis of the selection effects allows us to measure the dependence of the intrinsic CIV BALQSO fraction on luminosity and redshift. We find a factor of 3.5+/-0.4 decrease in the intrinsic fraction from the highest redshifts, z~4.0, down to z~2.0. The redshift dependence implies that an orientation effect alone is not sufficient to explain the presence of BAL troughs in some but not all quasar spectra. Our results are consistent with the intrinsic BALQSO fraction having no strong luminosity dependence, although with 3-sigma limits on the rate of change of the intrinsic fraction with luminosity of -6.9 and 7.0 per cent dex^-1 we are unable to rule out such a dependence.

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