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Broad-line Balmer decrements in blue active galactic nuclei

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作者Dong, XB1,2; Wang, TG1,2; Wang JG(王建国)3,4; Yuan WM(袁为民)3; Zhou, HY1,2,5; Dai, HF1,2; Zhang, K1,2
刊名MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY
出版日期2008-01-11
卷号383期号:2页码:581-592
关键词quasars : emission lines quasars : general
ISSN号0035-8711
产权排序第三完成单位
通讯作者Dong, XB (reprint author), Univ Sci & Technol China, Ctr Astrophys, Hefei 230026, Anhui, Peoples R China.
英文摘要We have investigated the broad-line Balmer decrements (H alpha/H beta) for a large, homogeneous sample of Seyfert 1 galaxies and quasi-stellar objects (QSOs) using spectroscopic data obtained in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. The sample, drawn from the Fourth Data Release, comprises 446 low-redshift (z less than or similar to 0.35) active galactic nuclei (AGN) that have blue optical continua as indicated by the spectral slopes in order to minimize the effect of dust extinction. We find that (i) the distribution of the intrinsic broad-line H alpha/H beta ratio can be well described by log-Gaussian, with a peak at H alpha/H beta = 3.06 and a standard deviation of about 0.03 dex only; (ii) the Balmer decrement does not correlate with AGN properties such as luminosity, accretion rate and continuum slope, etc.; (iii) on average, the Balmer decrements are found to be only slightly larger in radio-loud sources (3.37) and sources having double-peaked emission-line profiles (3.27) compared to the rest of the sample. We therefore suggest that the broad-line H alpha/H beta ratio can be used as a good indicator for dust extinction in the AGN broad-line region; this is especially true for radio-quiet AGN with regular emission-line profiles, which constitute the vast majority of the AGN population.
WOS标题词Science & Technology ; Physical Sciences
学科主题Astronomy & Astrophysics
类目[WOS]Astronomy & Astrophysics
研究领域[WOS]Astronomy & Astrophysics
关键词[WOS]DIGITAL SKY SURVEY ; PEAKED EMISSION-LINES ; BRIGHT QUASAR SURVEY ; EARLY DATA RELEASE ; BLACK-HOLE MASSES ; SEYFERT-1 GALAXIES ; RADIO-LOUD ; H-ALPHA ; ULTRAVIOLET CONTINUUM ; INFRARED-EMISSION
收录类别SCI
原文出处http://mnras.oxfordjournals.org/content/383/2/581
语种英语
WOS记录号WOS:000252122000015
源URL[http://ir.ynao.ac.cn/handle/114a53/4965]  
专题云南天文台_高能天体物理研究组
作者单位1.Centre for Astrophysics, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui, 230026, China
2.Joint Institute of Galaxies and Cosmology, Shanghai Observatory and University of Science and Technology China
3.National Astronomical Observatories/Yunnan Observatory, Chinese Academy of Sciences, PO Box 110, Kunming, Yunnan 650011, China
4.Department of Physics, Yunnan University, 650031, Kunming, China
5.Max-Planck-Institut für extraterrestrische Physik, Giessenbachstrasse 1, 85748 Garching, Germany
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Dong, XB,Wang, TG,Wang JG,et al. Broad-line Balmer decrements in blue active galactic nuclei[J]. MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY,2008,383(2):581-592.
APA Dong, XB.,Wang, TG.,Wang JG.,Yuan WM.,Zhou, HY.,...&Zhang, K.(2008).Broad-line Balmer decrements in blue active galactic nuclei.MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY,383(2),581-592.
MLA Dong, XB,et al."Broad-line Balmer decrements in blue active galactic nuclei".MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY 383.2(2008):581-592.

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