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2006MNRAS.372..876B - Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc., 372, 876-884 (2006/October-3)

Stellar and gaseous velocity dispersions in type II AGNs at 0.3 < z < 0.83 from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey.

BIAN W., GU Q., ZHAO Y., CHAO L. and CUI Q.

Abstract (from CDS):

We apply the stellar population synthesis code by Cid Fernandes et al. to model the stellar contribution for a sample of 209 type II active galactic nuclei (AGNs) at 0.3 < z < 0.83 from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. The reliable stellar velocity dispersions (σ*) are obtained for 33 type II AGNs with significant stellar absorption features. According to the L[OIII]criterion of 3x108L☉, 20 of which can be classified as type II quasars. We use the formula of Greene and Ho to obtain the corrected stellar velocity dispersions (σc*). We also calculate the supermassive black hole masses from σc*in these high-redshift type II AGNs. The [Oiii] luminosity is correlated with the black hole mass (although no correlation between the extinction-corrected [Oiii] luminosity and the black hole mass), and no correlation is found between the Eddington ratio and the [Oiii] luminosity or the corrected [Oiii] luminosity. Three sets of two-component profiles are used to fit multiple emission transitions ([Oiii]λλ4959, 5007 and [Oii]λλ3727, 3729) in these 33 stellar-light-subtracted spectra. We also measure the gas velocity dispersion (σg) from these multiple transitions, and find that the relation between σgand σc*becomes much weaker at higher redshifts than in smaller redshifts. The distribution of <σg/σc*> is 1.24±0.76 for the core [Oiii] line and 1.20±0.96 for the [Oii] line, which suggests that σgof the core [Oiii] and [Oii] lines can trace σc* within about 0.1 dex in the logarithm of σc*. For the secondary driver, we find that the deviation of σgfrom σc*is correlated with the Eddington ratio.

Abstract Copyright: 2006 The Authors. Journal compilation © 2006 RAS

Journal keyword(s): galaxies: active - galaxies: nuclei - quasars: emission lines

Simbad objects: 33

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