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后发座超星系团中光学选择活动星系核的全面普查:AGN活动对局部环境的依赖

The complete census of optically selected AGNs in the Coma Supercluster: the dependence of AGN activity on the local environment

Giuseppe Gavazzi, Giulia Savorgnan, Mattia Fumagalli

摘要:

为了研究活动星系核(AGN)的出现对星系密度的依赖性,我们对后发座超星系团中约5000个星系的核性质进行了研究。后发座超星系团的密度从稀疏的暗条到丰富的星系团的核心跨越了2个数量级。我们用1.5米Cassini望远镜获得了177个星系核的光谱,并将其加入SDSS(DR 7)提供的4785个光谱中,以补充SDSS对亮星系的不完全覆盖。我们对星系核进行了光谱分类(在r<17.77时,分类的完整性为98%),将核光谱分为六类:其中三类(SEY,sAGN,LIN)代表活动星系核,其余三类(HII,RET,PAS)代表星暴活动的不同阶段。为了进行这样的分类,我们使用WHAN诊断,在针对潜在的吸收将H α校正1.3 A之后。我们发现5027个星系中有482个(10%)拥有活动星系核:它们的频率随着母星系光度的增加而强烈增加,例如32%的Log(i-Lum)<10.2(太阳)的星系在其内部拥有活动星系核。除了存在于发光星系中,活动星系核也存在于<g-i>\pm &lt; 1.15 \pm 0.15等的红色星系中。大多数SEY和sAGN(强活动星系核)与发光的晚型(或S 0 a)星系有关,而LIN(弱活动星系核)和RET(“退休”)则主要存在于E/S 0 a星系中。活动星系核,HII区域,和退休星系的数密度被发现与本地的星系密度反相关,这样,他们的频率下降了两个因素附近的集群核心,而含有被动核的星系的频率增加了相同的金额向中心的丰富的集群。活动星系核数密度对局部星系密度的依赖性大于仅由形态分离所暗示的依赖性。

英文摘要:

To investigate the dependence of the occurrence of active galactic nuclei (AGNs) on local galaxy density, we study the nuclear properties of ~5000 galaxies in the Coma Supercluster whose density spans 2 orders of magnitude from the sparse filaments to the cores of the rich clusters. We obtained optical spectra of the nuclei of 177 galaxies using the 1.5m Cassini telescope, which are added to the 4785 spectra available from SDSS (DR7) to fill-in the incomplete coverage by SDSS of luminous galaxies. We perform a spectral classification of the nuclei of galaxies (with a completeness of 98% at r<17.77), classifying the nuclear spectra in six classes: three of them (SEY, sAGN, LIN) refer to AGNs and the remaining three (HII, RET, PAS) refer to different stages of starburst activity. To perform such classification, we use the WHAN diagnostic, after correcting Halpha by 1.3 A for underlying absorption. We find that 482 (10%) of 5027 galaxies host an AGN: their frequency strongly increases with increasing luminosity of the parent galaxies, such that 32% of galaxies with Log(i-Lum)<10.2 (Solar) harbor an AGN at their interior. In addition to their presence in luminous galaxies, AGNs are also found in red galaxies with <g-i> < 1.15 \pm 0.15 mag. The majority of SEY and sAGN (strong AGNs) are associated with luminous late-type (or S0a) galaxies, while LIN (weak AGNs) and RET ("retired"), are mostly found among E/S0as. The number density of AGNs, HII region-like, and retired galaxies is found to anti-correlate with the local density of galaxies, such that their frequency drops by a factor of two near the cluster cores, while the frequency of galaxies containing passive nuclei increases by the same amount towards the center of rich clusters. The dependence of AGN number density on the local galaxy density is greater than the one implied by morphology segregation alone.

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