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许多射电选择的BL Lac射电类星体是伪装的吗?

Are many radio-selected BL Lacs radio quasars in disguise?

V. D'Elia, P. Padovani, P. Giommi, S. Turriziani

摘要:

我们表明,在BL湖和平坦频谱射电类星体的耀变体分类可能是不够的,当它仅仅依赖于光学线的等效宽度(EW)。事实上,根据红移,一些强发射线可能落在红外窗口内而被错过。我们选择了一个样本的BL Lac与坚定的红移识别和良好的可见性从帕拉纳尔。我们用X-射手摄谱仪瞄准了z > 0.7的五个BL Lac,即,其中,在耀变体中最强的一条Halalpha线落在光学窗口之外,并确定了红外和光学波段发射线的EW。五个源中有两个显示出观测到的H α EW > 5A(一个具有静止框架EW > 5A),并且可以通过文献中使用的分类方案之一被分类为FSRQ。第三个物体是观测到的EW为4.4 +/- 0.5A的边界线。在所有这些情况下,Halpha是检测到的最强发射线。另外两个耀变体的阿尔法谱线没有被探测到,但在一个例子中,它落在一个被天线严重污染的区域,而在另一个例子中,光谱没有特征。我们的结论是,耀变体分类的基础上,EW宽度只能是不准确的,并可能导致一个错误的决定耀变体的演化。这种效应在BL Lac类中更为严重,因为FSRQs可能会被错误地归类为BL Lac,特别是在高红移(z > 0.7)时,后者非常罕见。

英文摘要:

We show that a blazar classification in BL Lacs and Flat Spectrum Radio Quasars may not be adequate when it relies solely on the equivalent widths (EWs) of optical lines. In fact, depending on redshift, some strong emission lines can fall in the infrared window and be missed. We selected a sample of BL Lacs with firm redshift identification and good visibility from Paranal. We targeted with the X-shooter spectrograph the five BL Lacs with z > 0.7, i.e., those for which the Halpha line, one of the strongest among blazars, falls outside the optical window and determined the EW of emission lines in both the infrared and optical bands. Two out of five sources show an observed Halpha EW > 5A (one has rest frame EW > 5A) and could be classified as FSRQs by one of the classification schemes used in the literature. A third object is border-line with an observed EW of 4.4 +/- 0.5A. In all these cases Halpha is the strongest emission line detected. The Halpha line of the other two blazars is not detected, but in one case it falls in a region strongly contaminated by sky lines and in the other one the spectrum is featureless. We conclude that a blazar classification based on EW width only can be inaccurate and may lead to an erroneous determination of blazar evolution. This effect is more severe for the BL Lac class, since FSRQs can be misclassified as BL Lacs especially at high redshifts (z > 0.7), where the latter are extremely rare.

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