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z>2.2类星体红移的估算和改进

Evaluating and Improving the Redshifts of z>2.2 Quasars

Michelle Mason, Michael Brotherton, Adam Myers

摘要:

类星体红移在许多应用中需要尽可能高的精度和准确度,例如设置外流的速度标度以及测量小尺度的类星体-类星体集群。在明亮类星体中,最可靠的红移标准可以说是静止坐标系光学中的窄[OIII] $λλ$ 4959,5007发射线双峰。我们使用先前发表的[OIII]红移获得的近红外光谱在45个高红移(z > 2.2)类星体的样本,以评估基于静止帧紫外光谱的红移测量技术。在z = 2.2以上的红移,MgII $λ$ 2798发射线在双标架光谱中不可用,并且可用的最突出的未混合和未吸收光谱特征通常是CIV $λ$ 1549。CIV轮廓的峰值和质心测量通常相对于类星体的静止框架发生蓝移,这可以显著地偏置红移测定。我们发现,这些高红移类星体的红移测定与CIV的发射线性质显著相关(即,等效宽度(EW)和半高全宽(FWHM)以及光度,这些数据来自斯隆数字巡天数据第7版。我们表明,经验校正的基础上,多元回归分析产生显着的改善最遥远的类星体的红移的精度和准确性,并需要建立一致性与红移确定在更多的本地类星体。

英文摘要:

Quasar redshifts require the best possible precision and accuracy for a number of applications, such as setting the velocity scale for outflows as well as measuring small-scale quasar-quasar clustering. The most reliable redshift standard in luminous quasars is arguably the narrow [OIII] $λλ$4959,5007 emission line doublet in the rest-frame optical. We use previously published [OIII] redshifts obtained using near-infrared spectra in a sample of 45 high-redshift (z > 2.2) quasars to evaluate redshift measurement techniques based on rest-frame ultraviolet spectra. At redshifts above z = 2.2 the MgII $λ$2798 emission line is not available in observed-frame optical spectra, and the most prominent unblended and unabsorbed spectral feature available is usually CIV $λ$1549. Peak and centroid measurements of the CIV profile are often blueshifted relative to the rest-frame of the quasar, which can significantly bias redshift determinations. We show that redshift determinations for these high-redshift quasars are significantly correlated with the emission-line properties of CIV (i.e., the equivalent width, or EW, and the full width at half maximum, or FWHM) as well as the luminosity, which we take from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data Release 7. We demonstrate that empirical corrections based on multiple regression analyses yield significant improvements in both the precision and accuracy of the redshifts of the most distant quasars and are required to establish consistency with redshifts determined in more local quasars.

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