scholarly journals Dependence of equivalent width of quasar emission lines on UV-optical spectral index

2013 ◽  
Vol 9 (S304) ◽  
pp. 282-283 ◽  
Author(s):  
Olena Torbaniuk ◽  
Ganna Ivashchenko

AbstractUsing 192 composite spectra stacked from subsamples of individual SDSS quasar spectra binned in spectral index, αλ, and logarithm of monochromatic luminosity at 1450 Å, log l1450, and modelling separate spectral ranges with superposition of emission lines it was found that: there is a dependence of emission line equivalent width (EW) on αλ (correlation or anti-correlation) for some lines, mostly for those lines for which the Baldwin effect is detected, while for the lines for which the Baldwin effect is not observed any αλ-dependence was found.

2019 ◽  
Vol 15 (S356) ◽  
pp. 12-16
Author(s):  
Silvia Bonoli ◽  
Giorgio Calderone ◽  
Raul Abramo ◽  
Jailson Alcaniz ◽  
Narciso Benitez ◽  
...  

AbstractThe J-PAS survey will soon start observing thousands of square degrees of the Northern Sky with its unique set of 56 narrow band filters covering the entire optical wavelength range, providing, effectively, a low resolution spectra for every object detected. Active galaxies and quasars, thanks to their strong emission lines, can be easily identified and characterized with J-PAS data. A variety of studies can be performed, from IFU-like analysis of local AGN, to clustering of high-z quasars. We also expect to be able to extract intrinsic physical quasar properties from the J-PAS pseudo-spectra, including continuum slope and emission line luminosities. Here we show the first attempts of using the QSFit software package to derive the properties for 22 quasars at 0.8 < z < 2 observed by the miniJPAS survey, the first deg2 of J-PAS data obtained with an interim camera. Results are compared with the ones obtained by applying the same software to SDSS quasar spectra.


2012 ◽  
Vol 8 (S292) ◽  
pp. 44-44
Author(s):  
N. Z. Ismailov ◽  
N. Kh. Quliyev ◽  
O. V. Khalilov ◽  
H. N. Adigezalzade

AbstractIn this report we have presented results of spectral observations of classical T Tauri type stars T Tau and RY Tau. Observational dates were obtained from following sources: spectrograms of the UV range from the IUE archive data, and spectrograms of the visual range obtained in the 2 m telescope of ShAO of the NAS of Azerbaijan (Ismailov et al. 2010). For both of stars on the Scargle method we have searched a periodicity of variations in equivalent widths of emission lines in the optical and UV ranges. In the RY Tau firstly was detected the periodic variability in MgII λ2800 Å emission doublet intensities with a period of 23 days. The observed period had also revealed with the equivalent widths and displacements of components of Hα and H+Hϵ and K CaII emission.The lines were found to be shifted to short wavelengths as the emission line intensities increased in both UV and optical spectral ranges. The lack of a correlation between the brightness variation and the emission line intensity also suggests that, on the whole, the contribution from the radiation in emission lines for the star RY Tau is insignificant.On the analysis of T Tau we conclude that there is a significant variation of spectral emission lines in the optical and UV on a time scale of about 33 days and that this variations is periodic. Both of stars shows the periodicity also for observed group of such lines as CIV λ1450 Å, HeII λ 1640 Å, SII λ1756 Å (Ismailov et al. 2010, Ismailov et al. 2011).Additionally we have carried out spectral energy distributions of this stars in the range 0.36-100 μm which have indicated the excess of spectral radiation in the IR range of spectrum. These excesses of radiations can be explained by the thermal radiation of still unformed bodies at the circumstellar environment. The periodic variability in the spectrum together with the excess of the spectral radiation may be occurred by protoplanets and/or protostars in these young systems. It is showed that possible, planet formation processes mainly to be completed at the time of the formation of classical T Tauri type stars.


2012 ◽  
Vol 762 (1) ◽  
pp. 51 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kai Zhang ◽  
Ting-Gui Wang ◽  
C. Martin Gaskell ◽  
Xiao-Bo Dong

2001 ◽  
Vol 372 (3) ◽  
pp. 963-980 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. I. van Gent ◽  
H. J. G. L. M. Lamers ◽  
A. de Koter ◽  
P. W. Morris

1997 ◽  
Vol 159 ◽  
pp. 252-253
Author(s):  
Youjun Lu ◽  
Tinggui Wang

According to photoionization calculations, the broad emission-line (BEL) spectrum depends not only on the physical conditions of line-emitting gas, but also on the spectral shape of incident ionizing continuum, especially from the UV to X-ray. Analysis of emission-line spectra and their correlations with the continuum, therefore, provide a way of probing the anisotropy of ionizing continuum on the BLR scale, which is predicted by current models. Previous works have concentrated on explaining the Baldwin effect, an inverse correlation between equivalent width and continuum luminosity. In this contribution, we present the results of an analysis of 75 AGNs which have well-determined soft X-ray spectral parameters from ROSAT and UV line and continuum measurements.


1996 ◽  
Vol 173 ◽  
pp. 241-246
Author(s):  
Geraint F. Lewis ◽  
Mike J. Irwin ◽  
Paul C. Hewett

The degree of microlensing induced amplification is dependent upon the size of a source. As quasar spectra consist of the sum of emission from different regions this scale dependent amplification can produce spectral differences between the images of a macrolensed quasar. This paper presents the first direct spectroscopic evidence for this effect, providing a limit on the scale of the continuum and the broad line emission regions at the center of a source quasar (2237+0305). Lack of centroid and profile differences in the emission lines indicate that substructure in the broad emission line region is > 0.05 parsecs.


2020 ◽  
Vol 500 (3) ◽  
pp. 3926-3943
Author(s):  
Gourav Banerjee ◽  
Blesson Mathew ◽  
K T Paul ◽  
Annapurni Subramaniam ◽  
Suman Bhattacharyya ◽  
...  

ABSTRACT In this study, we analyse the emission lines of different species present in 118 Galactic field classical Be stars in the wavelength range of 3800–9000 Å. We re-estimated the extinction parameter (AV) for our sample stars using the newly available data from Gaia DR2 and suggest that it is important to consider AV while measuring the Balmer decrement (i.e. D34 and D54) values in classical Be stars. Subsequently, we estimated the Balmer decrement values for 105 program stars and found that ≈20 per cent of them show D34 ≥ 2.7, implying that their circumstellar disc are generally optically thick in nature. One program star, HD 60855 shows H α in absorption – indicative of disc-less phase. From our analysis, we found that in classical Be stars, H α emission equivalent width values are mostly lower than 40 Å, which agrees with that present in literature. Moreover, we noticed that a threshold value of ∼10 Å of H α emission equivalent width is necessary for Fe ii emission to become visible. We also observed that emission line equivalent widths of H α, P14, Fe ii 5169, and O i 8446 Å for our program stars tend to be more intense in earlier spectral types, peaking mostly near B1-B2. Furthermore, we explored various formation regions of Ca ii emission lines around the circumstellar disc of classical Be stars. We suggest the possibility that Ca ii triplet emission can originate either in the circumbinary disc or from the cooler outer regions of the disc, which might not be isothermal in nature.


1997 ◽  
Vol 159 ◽  
pp. 126-129 ◽  
Author(s):  
B.J. Wilkes ◽  
P.J. Green ◽  
S. Mathur ◽  
J.C. McDowell

AbstractMany years of study have failed to establish conclusively relationships between a quasar’s spectral energy distribution (SED) and the emission lines it is thought to produce. This is at least partially due to the lack of well-observed SEDs. We present initial results from a line–SED study for a sample of 43 quasars and active galaxies for which we have optical and ultraviolet spectra and far-infrared–X-ray SEDs. We present the results of tests for correlations between line equivalent widths and SED luminosity and slope parameters and compare these results to those from earlier studies. We find that the Baldwin effect is weaker when the luminosity is defined close to the ionizing continuum of that line and conclude that the detailed SED is likely to be important in making further progress.


2019 ◽  
Vol 15 (S341) ◽  
pp. 201-205
Author(s):  
Fang-Ting Yuan ◽  
Denis Burgarella ◽  
David Corre ◽  
Veronique Buat ◽  
Médéric Boquien ◽  
...  

AbstractAt high redshift, the contribution of strong emission lines to the broadband photometry can cause large uncertainties when estimating galaxy physical properties. To examine this effect, we investigate a sample of 54 LBGs at 3 < zspec < 3.8 with detected [OIII] line emissions. We use CIGALE to fit simultaneously the rest-frame UV-to-NIR SEDs of these galaxies and their emission line data. By comparing the results with and without emission line data, we show that spectroscopic data are necessary to constrain the nebular model. We examine the K-band excess, which is usually used to estimate the emissions of [OIII]+Hβ lines when there is no spectral data, and find that the difference between the estimation and observation can reach up to > 1 dex for some galaxies, showing the importance of obtaining spectroscopic measurements of these lines. We also estimate the equivalent width of the Hβ absorption and find it negligible compared to the Hβ emission.


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