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Lisa J. Storrie-Lombardi Michael J. Irwin Richard G. McMahon Isobel M. Hook 《Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society》2001,322(4):933-944
We present the spectra, positions, and finding charts for 31 bright ( R <19.3) colour-selected quasars covering the redshift range z =3.85–4.78, with four having redshifts z >4.5. The majority are in the southern sky ( δ <−25°). The quasar candidates were selected for their red ( B J − R ≳2.5) colours from UK or POSSII Schmidt Plates scanned at the Automated Plate Measuring (APM) facility in Cambridge. Low-resolution (≳ 10 Å) spectra were obtained to identify the quasars, primarily at the Las Campanas Observatory. The highest redshift quasar in our survey is at z ≈4.8 ( R =18.7) and its spectrum shows a damped Ly α absorption system at z =4.46. This is currently the highest redshift damped Ly α absorber detected. Five of these quasars exhibit intrinsic broad absorption line features. Combined with the previously published results from the first part of the APM United Kingdom Schmidt Telescope (UKST) survey we have now surveyed a total of ∼8000 deg2 of sky i.e. 40 per cent of the high galactic latitude (| b |>30°) sky, resulting in 59 optically selected quasars in the redshift range 3.85 to 4.78; 49 of which have z ≥4.00. 相似文献
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R. J. Wilman R. M. Johnstone C. S. Crawford 《Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society》2000,317(1):9-22
We present near-infrared spectra of seven radio-loud quasars with a median redshift of 2.1, five of which were previously known to have Ly α nebulae. Extended [O iii ] λ 5007 and H α emission are evident around six objects, at the level of a few times 10−16 erg cm−2 arcsec−2 s−1 within ≃2 arcsec of the nucleus (≡16 kpc in the adopted cosmology). Nuclear [O ii ] λ 3727 is detected in three of the five quasars studied at this wavelength and clearly extended in one of them.
The extended [O iii ] tends to be brighter on the side of the nucleus with the stronger, jet-like radio emission, indicating at least that the extranuclear gas is distributed anisotropically. It is also typically redshifted by several hundred km s−1 from the nuclear [O iii ], perhaps because of the latter being blueshifted from the host galaxy's systemic velocity. Alternatively, the velocity shifts could be due to infall (which is suggested by linewidths ∼1000 km s−1 FWHM) in combination with a suitable dust geometry. Ly α /H α ratios well below the case B value suggest that some dust is present.
Photoionization modelling of the [O iii ]/[O ii ] ratios in the extended gas suggests that its pressure is around or less than a few times 107 cm−3 K; any confining intracluster medium is thus likely to host a strong cooling flow. A comparison with lower redshift work suggests that there has been little evolution in the nuclear emission-line properties of radio-loud quasars between redshifts 1 and 2. 相似文献
The extended [O iii ] tends to be brighter on the side of the nucleus with the stronger, jet-like radio emission, indicating at least that the extranuclear gas is distributed anisotropically. It is also typically redshifted by several hundred km s
Photoionization modelling of the [O iii ]/[O ii ] ratios in the extended gas suggests that its pressure is around or less than a few times 10
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Xiaobo Dong Tinggui Wang Jianguo Wang Weimin Yuan Hongyan Zhou Haifeng Dai Kai Zhang 《Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society》2008,383(2):581-592
We have investigated the broad-line Balmer decrements (Hα/Hβ) 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 ≲ 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 Hα/Hβ ratio can be well described by log-Gaussian, with a peak at Hα/Hβ= 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 Hα/Hβ 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. 相似文献
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S. Zamfir J. W. Sulentic P. Marziani 《Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society》2008,387(2):856-870
We search for a dichotomy/bimodality between radio-loud (RL) and radio-quiet (RQ) type 1 active galactic nuclei (AGN). We examine several samples of Slogan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) quasi-stellar objects (QSOs) with high signal-to-noise ratio optical spectra and matching Faint Images of the Radio Sky at Twenty-cm/NRAO VLA Sky Survey (FIRST/NVSS) radio observations. We use the radio data to identify the weakest RL sources with a Fanaroff–Riley type II (FR II) structure to define a RL/RQ boundary which corresponds to log L 1.4 GHz = 31.6 erg s−1 Hz−1 . We measure the properties of broad-line Hβ and Fe ii emission to define the optical plane of a 4DE1 spectroscopic diagnostic space. The RL quasars occupy a much more restricted domain in this optical plane compared to the RQ sources, which a 2D Kolmogorov–Smirnov test finds to be highly significant. This tells us that the range of broad-line region kinematics and structure for RL sources is more restricted than for the RQ QSOs, which supports the notion of dichotomy. FR II and CD RL sources also show significant 4DE1 domain differences that likely reflect differences in line-of-sight orientation (inclined versus face-on, respectively) for these two classes. The possibility of a distinct radio-intermediate (RI) population between RQ and RL source is disfavoured because a 4DE1 diagnostic space comparison shows no difference between RI and RQ sources. We show that searches for dichotomy in radio versus bolometric luminosity diagrams will yield ambiguous results mainly because in a reasonably complete sample, the radio brightest RQ sources will be numerous enough to blur the gap between RQ and RL sources. Within resolution constraints of NVSS and FIRST, we find no FR I sources among the broad-line quasar population. 相似文献
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A. C. González-García T. S. van Albada 《Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society》2005,361(3):1043-1054
We perform N -body simulations of encounters between spherical systems surrounded by a spherical halo. Following a preceding paper with a similar aim, the initial systems include a spherical Jaffe model for the luminous matter and a Hernquist model for the halo. The merger remnants from this sample are mainly slowly rotating, prolate spheroids with a radially anisotropic velocity distribution. The results are compared with real-life ellipticals and with the models without halo in Paper I. We argue that elliptical galaxies with evidence of dark matter could be formed in the field via a merger of spheroids surrounded by a dark matter halo, while ellipticals with no evidence of dark matter might be formed via a merger of two spheroids in a cluster. 相似文献
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S.J. Warren P. Møller S.M. Fall P. Jakobsen 《Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society》2001,326(2):759-773
We are engaged in a programme of imaging with the STIS and NICMOS (NIC2) instruments aboard the Hubble Space Telescope ( HST ), to search for the galaxy counterparts of 18 high-redshift z >1.75 damped Ly α absorption lines and five Lyman-limit systems seen in the spectra of 16 target quasars. This paper presents the results of the imaging campaign with the NIC2 camera. We describe the steps followed in reducing the data and combining in mosaics, and the methods used for subtracting the image of the quasar in each field, and for constructing error frames that include the systematic errors associated with the PSF subtraction. To identify candidate counterparts, which are either compact or diffuse, we convolved the image and variance frames with circular top-hat filters of diameter 0.45 and 0.90 arcsec respectively, to create frames of summed S /N within the aperture. For each target quasar we provide catalogues listing positions and aperture magnitudes of all sources within a square of side 7.5 arcsec centred on the quasar, detected at S / N >6 . We find a total of 41 candidates, of which three have already been confirmed spectroscopically as the counterparts. We provide the aperture magnitude detection limits as a function of impact parameter, for both detection filters, for each field. The average detection limit for compact (diffuse) sources is H AB =25.0 (24.4) at an angular separation of 0.56 (0.79) arcsec from the quasar, improving to H AB =25.5 (24.8) at large angular separations. For the brighter sources we have measured the half-light radius and the n parameter of the best-fitting deconvolved Sersic-law surface brightness profile, and the ellipticity and orientation. 相似文献
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Distribution of the extensive Doppler redshift of quasars 总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1
Yi-Ping Qin Hong-Tao Liu En-Wei Liang Yun-Ming Dong Cheng-Yue Su 《Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society》2004,351(4):1319-1326
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Joseph D. Meiring Varsha P. Kulkarni James T. Lauroesch Celine Péroux Pushpa Khare Donald G. York Arlin P. S. Crotts 《Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society》2008,384(3):1015-1033
We present chemical abundance measurements from medium-resolution observations of eight subdamped Lyα (sub-DLA) absorber and two strong Lyman-limit systems at z ≲ 1.5 observed with the Magellan Inamori Kyocera Echelle (MIKE) spectrograph on the 6.5-m Magellan II Clay telescope. These observations were taken as part of an ongoing project to determine abundances in z abs ≲ 1.5 quasar absorption line systems focusing on sub-DLA systems. These observations increase the sample of Zn measurements in z abs ≲ 1.5 sub-DLAs by ∼50 per cent. Lines of Mg i , Mg ii , Al ii , Al iii , Ca ii , Mn ii , Fe ii and Zn ii were detected and column densities were determined. Zn ii , a relatively undepleted element and tracer of the gas-phase metallicity is detected in two of these systems, with [Zn/H]=−0.05 ± 0.12 and [Zn/H] > +0.86 . The latter one is however a weak system with N H I < 18.8 , and therefore may need significant ionization corrections to the abundances. Fe ii lines were detected in all systems, with an average Fe abundance of 〈[Fe/H]〉=−0.68 , higher than typical Fe abundances for DLA systems at these redshifts. This high mean [Fe/H] could be due to less depletion of Fe on to dust grains, or to higher abundances in these systems. We also discuss the relative abundances in these absorbers. The systems with high metallicity show high ratios of [Mn/Fe] and [Zn/Fe], as seen previously in another sub-DLA. These higher values of [Mn/Fe] could be a result of heavy depletion of Fe on to grains, unmixed gas, or an intrinsically non-solar abundance pattern. Based on cloudy modelling, we do not expect ionization effects to cause this phenomenon. 相似文献
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B. A. Mamedov 《Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society》2008,387(4):1622-1626
Using the binomial expansion theorem, the simple general analytical expressions are obtained for the Voigt function arising in various fields of physical research. As we will seen, the present formulation yields compact closed-form expressions which enable the ready analytical calculation of the Voigt function. The validity of this approximation is tested by other calculation methods. The series expansion relations established in this work are accurate enough in the whole range of parameters. The convergence rate of the series is estimated and discussed. Some examples of this methodology are presented. 相似文献
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