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高红移宽吸收线类星体的多波长连续谱表征

A multi-wavelength continuum characterization of high-redshift broad absorption line quasars

D. Tuccillo, G. Bruni, M. A. DiPompeo, M. S. Brotherton, A. Pasetto, A. Kraus, J. I. Gonzalez-Serrano, K. -H. Mack

摘要:

本文报道了对一个高红移射电强(RL)宽吸收线(BAL)类星体的多波长研究结果。这样,我们扩展到更高的红移以前的研究,这些对象的无线电特性和宽带光学颜色。我们选取了22个3.6 z 4.8的RL BAL类星体样本,对第一次射电巡天与SDSS进行了互相关。用JVLA和Effelsberg-100 m望远镜收集了15个BAL类星体和14个非BAL类星体在1.25 - 9.5GHz之间的通量密度作为对比样品。我们确定同步辐射峰值频率,限制他们的年龄。在两个样本中都发现了大量的千兆赫兹峰谱(GPS)和高频峰(HFP)源(80%的BAL类星体和71%的非BAL类星体),这并不意味着BAL类星体的年龄更年轻。光谱指数分布提供了有关这些来源的方向的信息,我们发现统计上相似的分布的BAL和非BAL类星体在较低的红移样本所做的工作相反。我们的样本可能太小,无法令人信服地发现相同的效应,或者可能代表了基于大部分年轻来源的真实进化效应。我们还研究了光学(SDSS)和近红外和中红外(UKIDSS和WISE)波段的宽带颜色的特性,发现在高红移的BAL类星体也倾向于比非BAL类星体更红。然而,当通过WISE调查比较两个样品的颜色时,这些差异在较长波长处并不明显。

英文摘要:

We present the results of a multi-wavelength study of a sample of high-redshift Radio Loud (RL) Broad Absorption Line (BAL) quasars. This way we extend to higher redshift previous studies on the radio properties, and broadband optical colors of these objects. We have se- lected a sample of 22 RL BAL quasars with 3.6 z 4.8 cross-correlating the FIRST radio survey with the SDSS. Flux densities between 1.25 and 9.5 GHz have been collected with the JVLA and Effelsberg-100m telescopes for 15 BAL and 14 non-BAL quasars used as compar- ison sample. We determine the synchrotron peak frequency, constraining their age. A large number of GigaHertz Peaked Spectrum (GPS) and High Frequency Peakers (HFP) sources has been found in both samples (80% for BAL and 71% for non-BAL QSOs), not suggesting a younger age for BAL quasars. The spectral index distribution provides information about the orientation of these sources, and we find statistically similar distributions for the BAL and non-BAL quasars in contrast to work done on lower redshift samples. Our sample may be too small to convincingly find the same effect, or might represent a real evolutionary effect based on the large fraction of young sources. We also study the properties of broadband colors in both optical (SDSS) and near- and mid-infrared (UKIDSS and WISE) bands, finding that also at high redshift BAL quasars tend to be optically redder than non-BAL quasars. However, these differences are no more evident at longer wavelength, when comparing colors of the two samples by mean of the WISE survey.

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