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Seyfert星系窄线区的氧丰度和金属度-光度关系

Oxygen abundances in the narrow line regions of Seyfert galaxies and the metallicity-luminosity relation

Mark Armah, Rogério Riffel, O. L. Dors, Kyuseok Oh, Michael J. Koss, Claudio Ricci, Benny Trakhtenbrot, Mabel Valerdi, Rogemar A. Riffel, Angela C. Krabbe

摘要:

本文给出了活动星系核Seyferts 1(Sy 1 s)和Seyferts 2(Sy 2s)的窄线区(NLR)气相中氧相对氢的丰度(O/H)。利用BAT活动星系核光谱巡天的第二次星表和数据发布(DR 2)中561个Seyfert核的光学窄发射线强度[ $3\,500<λ($ <$$)<7\,000$]通量,其重点是\textit{Swift} -BAT硬X射线($\gtrsim10$ keV)探测到的活动星系核。我们通过强线方法从发射线的相对强度导出O/H。我们发现活动星系核的O/H丰度与其宿主恒星的质量有关,并遵循向下的红移演化。利用导出的O/H值和硬X射线光度($L_{\rm X}$)首次研究了Seyfert星系的X射线光度-金属丰度($L_{\rm X}$ - $Z_{\rm NLR}$)关系。与宽线聚焦($L_{\rm X}$ - $Z_{\rm BLR}$)研究相反,我们发现$L_{\rm X}$ - $Z_{\rm NLR}$与爱丁顿比($λ_{\rm Edd}$)表现出显著的反相关,并且这些相关随红移而变化。这一结果表明,低亮度的活动星系核更积极地经历星际介质(ISM)富集通过恒星形成相比,更明亮的X射线源。我们的研究结果表明,活动星系核在某种程度上推动了星系的化学富集,这是由于原始气体的流入稀释了富含金属的气体,以及最近停止了环核恒星的形成。

英文摘要:

We present oxygen abundances relative to hydrogen (O/H) in the narrow line regions (NLRs) gas phases of Seyferts 1 (Sy 1s) and Seyferts 2 (Sy 2s) Active Galactic Nuclei (AGNs). We used fluxes of the optical narrow emission line intensities [$3\,500<λ($Å$)<7\,000$] of 561 Seyfert nuclei in the local universe ($z\lesssim0.31$) from the second catalog and data release (DR2) of the BAT AGN Spectroscopic Survey, which focuses on the \textit{Swift}-BAT hard X-ray ($\gtrsim10$ keV) detected AGNs. We derived O/H from relative intensities of the emission lines via the strong-line methods. We find that the AGN O/H abundances are related to their hosts stellar masses and that they follow a downward redshift evolution. The derived O/H together with the hard X-ray luminosity ($L_{\rm X}$) were used to study the X-ray luminosity-metallicity ($L_{\rm X}$-$Z_{\rm NLR}$) relation for the first time in Seyfert galaxies. In contrast to the broad-line focused ($L_{\rm X}$-$Z_{\rm BLR}$) studies, we find that the $L_{\rm X}$-$Z_{\rm NLR}$ exhibit significant anti-correlations with the Eddington ratio ($λ_{\rm Edd}$) and these correlations vary with redshifts. This result indicates that the low-luminous AGNs are more actively undergoing Interstellar Medium (ISM) enrichment through star formation in comparison with the more luminous X-ray sources. Our results suggest that the AGN is somehow driving the galaxy chemical enrichment, as a result of the inflow of pristine gas that is diluting the metal rich gas, together with a recent cessation on the circumnuclear star-formation.

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