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类星体的中红外特征:高信噪比光谱模板

Characterizing Quasars in the Mid-infrared: High Signal-to-Noise Spectral Templates

Allison R. Hill, S. C. Gallagher, R. P. Deo, E. Peeters, Gordon T. Richards

摘要:

中红外(MIR)类星体光谱显示出一系列的发射特征,包括电离连续体照射的窄线区域的高电离日冕线,硅酸盐和石墨的宽尘埃隆起,以及宿主星系恒星形成的多环芳烃(PAH)特征。然而,在斯皮策红外光谱仪(IRS)的数据中,很少有特征被检测到在大多数个人的光谱,因为典型的低信噪比(S/N)。通过从斯隆数字巡天宽线类星体的180多个IRS观测结果中生成光谱复合物,我们提高了S/N,并揭示了复杂光谱中的特征,否则这些特征会在噪声中丢失。除了一个整体的复合,我们产生的复合材料在三个不同的光度箱,跨越10 $^{40}$ -10 $^{46}$(erg~s $^{-1}$)的5.6微米的光度范围。我们在所有模板中检测到[SIV],[OIV]和[NeV] 14微米的高电离,禁止发射线,并且在所有模板中检测到PAH特征,但最明亮的模板。与一系列的电离势线的比率显示没有证据表明在这个范围内的亮度在41- 97 eV的电离连续的形状有很大的差异。发射线光度作为连续发光度的函数的比例与预期一致,并且没有显示出“消失的窄线区域”的迹象。宽的10和18微米硅酸盐特征发射强度随着亮度的增加而增加,在最高亮度模板中,与750 K下的石墨发射一致的宽的3- 5微米黑体是明显的。我们发现,所有光度模板的内在类星体连续体是一致的,明显的差异主要来自宿主星系污染最明显的低光度。

英文摘要:

Mid-infrared (MIR) quasar spectra exhibit a suite of emission features including high ionization coronal lines from the narrow line region illuminated by the ionizing continuum, broad dust bumps from silicates and graphites, and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH) features from star formation in the host galaxy. However, in Spitzer Infared Spectrograph (IRS) data, few features are detected in most individual spectra because of typically low signal-to-noise ratios (S/N). By generating spectral composites from over 180 IRS observations of Sloan Digital Sky Survey broad-line quasars, we boost the S/N and reveal features in the complex spectra that are otherwise lost in the noise. In addition to an overall composite, we generate composites in three different luminosity bins that span the range of 5.6 micron luminosities of 10$^{40}$--10$^{46}$ (erg~s$^{-1}$). We detect the high-ionization, forbidden emission lines of [SIV], [OIV], and [NeV] 14 micron in all templates and PAH features in all but the most luminous template. Ratios of lines with a range of ionization potentials show no evidence for a strong difference in the shape of the 41--97 eV ionizing continuum over this range of luminosities. The scaling of the emission-line luminosities as a function of continuum luminosity is consistent with what is expected, and shows no indication of a ``disappearing narrow-line region.'' The broad 10 and 18 micron silicate features in emission increase in strength with increasing luminosity, and a broad 3--5 micron black body consistent with graphite emission at 750 K is evident in the highest luminosity template. We find that the intrinsic quasar continua for all luminosity templates are consistent; apparent differences arise primarily from host galaxy contamination most evident at low luminosity.

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