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内禀AGN发射的后Herschel观点:构造星系模板和IR波长的AGN发射

The post-Herschel view of intrinsic AGN emission: constructing templates for galaxy and AGN emission at IR wavelengths

E. Bernhard, C. Tadhunter, J. R. Mullaney, L. P. Grimmett, D. J. Rosario, D. M. Alexander

摘要:

测量活动星系核的恒星形成特性是我们理解星系形成和演化的关键。然而,这一主题仍然存在争议,部分原因是难以将红外(即1- 1000 $μ$ m)辐射分离为活动星系核和恒星形成成分。利用Herschel的远红外数据,我们提出了一套新的活动星系核和星系红外模板,并介绍了光谱能量分布拟合程序IRAGNSEP。两者都可以用来测量红外主星系的属性,没有AGN污染。为了建立这些,我们使用了100个本地(PDMATHAMN < 0.3),低到高光度活动星系核(即$L_{\rm bol}~\sim~10^{42--46}~\rm erg~s^{-1}$)的样本,从105个月的斯威夫特- BAT X射线巡天中选出,这些巡天具有存档的斯皮策- IRS光谱和赫歇尔测光。我们首先使用通过红外诊断选择的55个恒星形成星系的样本构建了一组7个星系模板。利用这些模板,结合活动星系核贡献的灵活模型,我们提取了活动星系核样品的本征红外辐射。我们进一步证明,我们可以减少的多样性的活动星系核光谱能量分布的内在形状下降到一组三个活动星系核模板,其中两个代表活动星系核连续,和一个代表硅酸盐发射。我们的结果表明,平均而言,活动星系核的贡献远红外($λ~\gtrsim$ 50 $μ$ m)是不高的建议,最近的一些工作。我们进一步表明,需要两个红外活动星系核连续模板可能与核遮蔽,其中我们的模板出现的扩展极地尘埃的排放占主导地位。

英文摘要:

Measuring the star-forming properties of AGN hosts is key to our understanding of galaxy formation and evolution. However, this topic remains debated, partly due to the difficulties in separating the infrared (i.e. 1--1000 $μ$m) emission into AGN and star-forming components. Taking advantage of archival far-infrared data from Herschel, we present a new set of AGN and galaxy infrared templates, and introduce the spectral energy distribution fitting code IRAGNSEP. Both can be used to measure infrared host galaxy properties, free of AGN contamination. To build these, we used a sample of 100 local ($z$ < 0.3), low-to-high luminosity AGNs (i.e. $L_{\rm bol}~\sim~10^{42--46}~\rm erg~s^{-1}$), selected from the 105-month Swift - BAT X-ray survey, which have archival Spitzer - IRS spectra and Herschel photometry. We first built a set of seven galaxy templates using a sample of 55 star-forming galaxies selected via infrared diagnostics. Using these templates, combined with a flexible model for the AGN contribution, we extracted the intrinsic infrared emission of our AGN sample. We further demonstrate that we can reduce the diversity in the intrinsic shapes of AGN spectral energy distributions down to a set of three AGN templates, of which two represent AGN continuum, and one represents silicate emission. Our results indicate that, on average, the contribution of AGNs to the far-infrared ($λ~\gtrsim$ 50 $μ$m) is not as high as suggested by some recent work. We further show that the need for two infrared AGN continuum templates could be related to nuclear obscuration, where one of our templates appears dominated by the emission of the extended polar dust.

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