Chemical enrichment and accretion of nitrogen-loud quasars
Chemical enrichment and accretion of nitrogen-loud quasars
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DOI：
10.1051/0004-6361/201629878
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发表时间：
2017-09
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6.5
通讯作者：
K. Matsuoka;T. Nagao;R. Maiolino;A. Marconi;Daeseong Park;Y. Taniguchi
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作者：
K. Matsuoka;T. Nagao;R. Maiolino;A. Marconi;Daeseong Park;Y. Taniguchi
给出了12个z ~ 2.2的氮噪类星体的静止坐标光谱，它们的静止坐标紫外光谱显示出强的氮宽发射线。为了研究它们的窄线区（NLR）金属丰度，我们测量了[OIII]5007发射线的等效宽度（EW）：如果NLR金属丰度非常高，如强紫外氮线所示，[OIII]5007线通量应该非常小，因为电离气体的平衡温度低，这是由于显着的金属冷却。结果表明，我们的光谱显示出类似于一般类星体的[OIII]5007线的中等EW。这表明氮大声类星体在NLR中没有非常富含金属的气体云。这表明宽线区（BLR）的强氮线起源于相对于氧的氮丰度异常高，而没有非常高的BLR金属丰度。这一结果表明，在某些情况下，氮的宽发射谱线不是BLR金属丰度的良好指标。另一方面，我们还调查维里黑洞的质量和爱丁顿比使用我们的样本的Hbeta和CIV 1549线。结果，我们发现氮噪类星体的黑洞质量和爱丁顿比相对于正常类星体有低和高的趋势，这表明氮噪类星体似乎处于快速吸积阶段。这可以用类星体的爱丁顿比和氮丰度之间的正相关来解释，这可能是由于黑洞的质量吸积和核星星形成之间的联系造成的。
We present rest-frame optical spectra of 12 nitrogen-loud quasars at z ~ 2.2, whose rest-frame ultraviolet (UV) spectra show strong nitrogen broad emission lines. To investigate their narrow-line region (NLR) metallicities, we measure the equivalent width (EW) of the [OIII]5007 emission line: if the NLR metallicity is remarkably high as suggested by strong UV nitrogen lines, the [OIII]5007 line flux should be very week due to the low equilibrium temperature of the ionized gas owing to significant metal cooling. In the result, we found that our spectra show moderate EW of the [OIII]5007 line similar to general quasars. This indicates nitrogen-loud quasars do not have extremely metal-rich gas clouds in NLRs. This suggests that strong nitrogen lines from broad-line regions (BLRs) are originated by exceptionally high abundances of nitrogen relative to oxygen without very high BLR metallicities. This result indicates that broad-emission lines of nitrogen are not good indicators of the BLR metallicity in some cases. On the other hand, we also investigate virial black-hole masses and Eddington ratios by using the Hbeta and CIV1549 lines for our sample. As a result, we found that black-hole masses and Eddington ratios of nitrogen-loud quasars tend to be low and high relative to normal quasars, suggesting that nitrogen-loud quasars seem to be in a rapidly-accreting phase. This can be explained in terms of a positive correlation between Eddington ratios and nitrogen abundances of quasars, that is probably caused by the connection between the mass accretion onto black holes and nuclear star formation.