Joint Survey Processing I: Compact oddballs in the COSMOS field -- low-luminosity Quasars at z > 6?
Andreas L. Faisst, Ranga Ram Chary, Sergio Fajardo-Acosta, Roberta Paladini, Benjamin Rusholme, Nathaniel Stickley, George Helou, John R. Weaver, Gabriel Bramme… 展开作者
Andreas L. Faisst, Ranga Ram Chary, Sergio Fajardo-Acosta, Roberta Paladini, Benjamin Rusholme, Nathaniel Stickley, George Helou, John R. Weaver, Gabriel Brammer, Anton M. Koekemoer, Hironao Miyatake
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24 pages (incl. Appendix), 21 figures, 1 table; accepted for publication in ApJ
The faint-end slope of the quasar luminosity function at z~6 and its implication on the role of quasars in reionizing the intergalactic medium at early times has been an outstanding problem for some time. The identification of faint high-redshift quasars with luminosities of <1e44.5 erg/s is challenging. They are rare (few per square-degree) and the separation of these unresolved quasars from late-type stars and compact star-forming galaxies is difficult from ground-based observations alone. In addition, source confusion becomes significant at >25mag, with 30% of sources having their flux contaminated by foreground objects when the seeing resolution is ~0.7". We mitigate these issues by performing a pixel-level joint processing of ground and space-based data from Subaru/HSC and HST/ACS. We create a deconfused catalog over the 1.64 square-degrees of the COSMOS field, after accounting for spatial varying PSFs and astrometric differences between the two datasets. We identify twelve low-luminosity (M_UV ~ -21 mag) z>6 quasar candidates through (i) their red color measured between ACS/F814W and HSC/i-band and (ii) their compactness in the space-based data. Non-detections of our candidates in Hubble DASH data argues against contamination from late-type stars. Our constraints on the faint end of the quasar luminosity function at z~6.4 suggests a negligibly small contribution to reionization compared to the star-forming galaxy population. The confirmation of our candidates and the evolution of number density with redshift could provide better insights into how supermassive galaxies grew in the first billion years of cosmic time.
Viewing angle observations and effects of evolution with redshift, black hole mass, and Eddington ratio in quasar based cosmology
本研究的重点是通过模拟从红外(IR)到软X射线波段的宽带类星体光谱,对单个类星体的视角进行观测测量。源是从各种出版的目录中选择的,它们的宽带准同时光谱数据点被收集并用于建模。我们从一个具有宽带测光点的1型源的COSMOS样本开始。然后,为了包含更多的数据点,我们将COSMOS与SDSS DR 14类星体目录进行了交叉匹配,最终,我们找到了90个具有从IR到软X射线宽带数据的源。宽带光谱能量分布(SED)建模是在Xspec中通过使用optxagnf和SKIRTOR模型为每个源的X射线,UV,光学和IR制度。整个样本被分为四个箱相对于红移,黑洞(BH)的质量,和爱丁顿比在每个箱中的源的数量相等。视角估计在每个bin中,其相对于红移,BH质量和爱丁顿比的演变进行检查。因此,我们在95 $\%$置信区间内未发现视角随这些参数的任何显著变化。因此,我们得出结论,在宇宙学中使用类星体来确定宇宙的膨胀率是合理的,并且不存在偏差。
The XXL Survey: XLIII. The quasar radio loudness dichotomy exposed via radio luminosity functions obtained by combining results from COSMOS and XXL-S X-ray selected quasars
Extreme quasars as distance indicators in cosmology
以非常高的速率吸积物质的类星体(被称为极端人口A [xA]类星体,可能与超级爱丁顿吸积大质量黑洞有关)可能提供一类新的距离指标,涵盖从今天到大爆炸不到1 Gyr的宇宙时代。在更基本的层面上,xA类星体在活动星系核物理学和宿主星系演化的研究中具有特殊的意义。然而,它们的观测特性在很大程度上是未知的。xA类星体可以在大范围的红移范围内从主要的光学测量中识别出相对大量的类星体,这要归功于从类星体主序列的系统变化中定义的选择标准。已经有可能建立一个大约250个低和中等红移类星体的样本,更大的样本可以很容易地从斯隆数字巡天的最新数据中选择。一个大的样本可以澄清xA类星体的主要性质,这些类星体与一般的类星体不同,它们以极端的、定义明确的爱丁顿比辐射,散射很小。由于xA类星体的爱丁顿比散射小,我们提出了一种方法来获得主要的宇宙学参数的基础上红移无关的“维里光度”估计从测量的发射线宽,大致相当于光度估计的基础上,在早期和晚期类型的星系的线宽。宇宙学应用的xA类星体的光度估计从线宽的一个主要问题是确定适当的发射线,其扩大主要是维里在很宽的范围内的红移和光度。我们报告使用Al III 1860中间电离线和氢巴耳末线H-β维里加宽估计的初步发展,我们简要讨论了基于xA类星体的方法的前景。
Testing the Cosmological Principle: Astrometric Limits on Systemic Motion of Quasars at Different Cosmological Epochs
构造了一个在8400平方度的椭圆天空区域内具有天体自行和光谱红移大于0.5的光学类星体的$60,410$样品。使用正交Zernike函数的极坐标,自行领域的加权最小二乘调整的整个样本和六个相等的仓排序红移。与37个Zernike函数的整体拟合揭示了一个统计学上显著的模式,这可能是工具的起源。这种模式的主要特征是一系列的高峰和低谷,主要在R. A。振幅为25~ $μ$的分量作为年$^{-1}$。这个场是从六个类星体的类似拟合中减去的,这些类星体按红移范围从0.5到7.03进行分组,中值为0.72,1.00,1.25,1.52,1.83,2.34。由此产生的残差模式是嘈杂的,与正式的不确定性高达8~ $μ$作为年$^{-1}$在该地区的中部。我们检测到一个单一的高置信Zernike项的RA。红移约为1.52的类星体的自行分量,代表天空上的总梯度为30 $μ$ as yr $^{-1}$ over $150\degr$。我们没有发现任何小规模或中等规模的系统变化的剩余自行场的红移以上的$2.5\,σ$的显着性水平的功能。
The luminosity function and clustering of bright quasars in the FLAMINGO cosmological simulations
Leiden University(莱顿大学);The Australian National University(澳大利亚国立大学);Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian(哈佛-史密森天体物理中心);University of California, Santa Barbara(加州大学圣塔芭芭拉分校);Lorentz Institute for Theoretical Physics, Leiden University(莱顿大学洛伦兹理论物理研究所)
Effects of heterogeneous data sets and time-lag measurement techniques on cosmological parameter constraints from MgII and CIV reverberation-mapped quasar data