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活动星系核的近红外半径-光度关系

The near-infrared radius-luminosity relationship for active galactic nuclei

Hermine Landt, Misty C. Bentz, Bradley M. Peterson, Martin Elvis, Martin J. Ward, Kirk T. Korista, Margarita Karovska

摘要:

活动星系核(AGN)样本的黑洞质量目前估计单历元光谱。特别是,计算黑洞质量所需的宽线发射区的大小是从光学或紫外连续发光度中得出的。在这里,我们认为宽线区域的大小,R,和近红外(近红外)AGN连续光度,L之间的关系,近红外连续遭受较少的尘埃消光比在较短的波长和分离AGN连续从主星系星光的前景是更好的近红外比在光学。对于形式为R propto L^alpha的关系,我们获得了14个混响映射AGN样本的最佳拟合斜率α =0.5+/-0.1,这与光学波段的关系斜率一致,并且与光电离理论天真地预期的值0.5一致。黑洞的质量可以从近红外维里积中估算出来,维里积是用强的和未混合的帕邢宽发射线(Pa α或Pa β)计算出来的。

英文摘要:

Black hole masses for samples of active galactic nuclei (AGN) are currently estimated from single-epoch optical spectra. In particular, the size of the broad-line emitting region needed to compute the black hole mass is derived from the optical or ultraviolet continuum luminosity. Here we consider the relationship between the broad-line region size, R, and the near-infrared (near-IR) AGN continuum luminosity, L, as the near-IR continuum suffers less dust extinction than at shorter wavelengths and the prospects for separating the AGN continuum from host-galaxy starlight are better in the near-IR than in the optical. For a relationship of the form R propto L^alpha, we obtain for a sample of 14 reverberation-mapped AGN a best-fit slope of alpha=0.5+/-0.1, which is consistent with the slope of the relationship in the optical band and with the value of 0.5 naively expected from photoionisation theory. Black hole masses can then be estimated from the near-IR virial product, which is calculated using the strong and unblended Paschen broad emission lines (Pa alpha or Pa beta).

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