arXiv 1502.058502015-02-20astro-ph.HEastro-ph.GA

Reaching the Peak of the Quasar Spectral Energy Distribution I: Observations and Models

James S. Collinson, Martin J. Ward, Chris Done, Hermine Landt, Martin Elvis, Jonathan C. McDowell

备注：: 22 pages, 11 figures, 7 tables; accepted for publication in MNRAS
DOI：: 10.1093/mnras/stv362

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We perform a spectral analysis of a sample of 11 medium redshift (1.5 < z < 2.2) quasars. Our sample all have optical spectra from the SDSS, infrared spectra from GNIRS and TSPEC, and X-ray spectra from XMM-Newton. We first analyse the Balmer broad emission line profiles which are shifted into the IR spectra to constrain black hole masses. Then we fit an energy-conserving, three component accretion model of the broadband spectral energy distribution (SED) to our multi-wavelength data. Five out of the 11 quasars show evidence of an SED peak, allowing us to constrain their bolometric luminosity from these models and estimate their mass accretion rates. Based on our limited sample, we suggest that estimating bolometric luminosities from L_5100A and L_2-10keV may be unreliable, as has been also noted for a low-redshift, X-ray selected AGN sample.

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