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年轻红类星体的Spitzer观测

Spitzer Observations of Young Red Quasars

Tanya Urrutia, Mark Lacy, Henrik Spoon, Eilat Glikman, Andreea Petric, Bernhard Schulz

摘要:

本文报道了用Spitzer IRS和MIPS获得的13个红移0.4<z<1尘埃红化类星体的中红外光谱和测光结果。我们比较来自他们的红外光谱能量分布(固有AGN光度和远红外光度从恒星形成)的主机亮度和形态从HST成像,和黑洞质量估计从光学和/或近红外光谱的属性。我们的研究结果与模型基本一致,其中大多数尘埃红化类星体是合并驱动的星暴触发完全模糊的活动星系核和正常的未红化类星体之间的中间阶段。我们发现,我们的许多对象有很高的吸积率,接近爱丁顿极限。这些天体往往低于当地星系定义的黑洞质量-膨胀光度关系,而我们的大多数低吸积率天体略高于当地关系,这是这些红移的正常类星体的典型特征。因此,我们的观测结果最容易解释的情况下,星系恒星质量增长首先发生在每个合并/恒星暴增事件的三个因素,其次是黑洞增长了类似的金额。然而,我们没有看到任何直接的证据表明类星体反馈影响我们物体中的恒星形成,例如吸积率和恒星形成之间的关系。然而,我们的五个物体确实在OIII 5007埃发射线轮廓中显示出外流的证据,这表明类星体活动正在驱动我们样本中至少一些成员的热风。

英文摘要:

We present mid-infrared spectra and photometry of thirteen redshift 0.4<z<1 dust-reddened quasars obtained with Spitzer IRS and MIPS. We compare properties derived from their infrared spectral energy distributions (intrinsic AGN luminosity and far-infrared luminosity from star formation) to the host luminosities and morphologies from HST imaging, and black hole masses estimated from optical and/or near-infrared spectroscopy. Our results are broadly consistent with models in which most dust reddened quasars are an intermediate phase between a merger-driven starburst triggering a completely obscured AGN, and a normal, unreddened quasar. We find that many of our objects have high accretion rates, close to the Eddington limit. These objects tend to fall below the black hole mass -- bulge luminosity relation as defined by local galaxies, whereas most of our low accretion rate objects are slightly above the local relation, as typical for normal quasars at these redshifts. Our observations are therefore most readily interpreted in a scenario in which galaxy stellar mass growth occurs first by about a factor of three in each merger/starburst event, followed sometime later by black hole growth by a similar amount. We do not, however, see any direct evidence for quasar feedback affecting star formation in our objects, for example in the form of a relationship between accretion rate and star formation. Five of our objects, however, do show evidence for outflows in the OIII 5007 Angstrom emission line profile, suggesting that the quasar activity is driving thermal winds in at least some members of our sample.

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