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作为AGN功率的热测量指示器的高电离IR精细结构线:完整的12微米AGN样品的研究

The high-ionization IR fine-structure lines as bolometric indicators of the AGN power: study of the complete 12 micron AGN sample

Luigi Spinoglio, Juan Antonio Fernandez-Ontiveros, Matthew A. Malkan

摘要:

在活动星系核窄线区(NLR)激发的高电离中红外线,几乎不受恒星激发和尘埃消光的影响,跟踪活动星系核的热功率。我们使用了完整的12微米样本的塞弗特星系,其中100/116对象有可靠的2- 10 keV的观测。[NeV]和[OIV]的中红外线与活动星系核的几个辐射热指标(2- 10 keV和观测到的14- 195 keV X射线发射,致密核12微米发射,[OIII] 5007 A线发射)在通量和光度方面都呈线性相关。没有证据表明这些相关性的系统差异之间的塞弗特人口,包括1型和2型,康普顿厚和薄AGN。然而,我们发现,一个序列的高到低的爱丁顿比连同强到弱的线激发(跟踪的[OIV]/[Ne II]线比)包括从类型1到类型2活动星系核低电离核发射线区(LINER)的星系,显示在这三个活动星系核人口的内在差异。发现黑洞吸积率(BHAR)与恒星形成率(SFR)呈正相关,而比SFR(sSFR)与BHAR/M_(BH)之比无相关性,这反映了星系质量越大,形成的恒星越多,并为其中心的黑洞提供食物。JWST望远镜刚刚开始运行,将允许在附近宇宙(z<0.9)的这些线中观察到AGN的大样本。

英文摘要:

The high-ionization mid-IR lines, excited in the Narrow Line Regions (NLR) of Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN), barely affected by stellar excitation and dust extinction, trace the AGN bolometric power. We used the complete 12 micron sample of Seyfert galaxies, for which 100/116 objects have reliable 2-10keV observations. The [NeV] and [OIV] mid-IR lines linearly correlate with several AGN bolometric indicators (intrinsic 2-10keV and observed 14-195keV X-ray emission, compact nuclear 12 micron emission, [OIII] 5007A line emission), both in terms of flux and luminosity. No evidence of systematic differences in these correlations is found among the Seyfert populations, including type 1 and type 2, and Compton thick and thin AGN. Nevertheless, we find that a sequence of high-to-low Eddington ratio together with strong-to-weak line excitation (traced by the [OIV]/[Ne II] line ratio) encompasses from type 1 through type 2 AGN to Low Ionization Nuclear Emission Line Region (LINER) galaxies, showing intrinsic differences in these three AGN populations. A positive correlation between the Black Hole Accretion Rate (BHAR) and the Star Formation Rate (SFR) is found, but no correlation between the specific SFR (sSFR) and the ratio BHAR/M_(BH), simply reflecting the fact that the more massive is a galaxy, the more it is forming stars and feeding its central black hole. The JWST telescope, just beginning operations, will allow large samples of AGN to be observed in these lines in the nearby Universe (z<0.9).

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