• 제목/요약/키워드: AGN

검색결과 306건 처리시간 0.025초

bservational Evidence for the Coevolution between Supermassive Black Holes and Host Galaxies

  • Kim, Minjin
    • 천문학회보
    • /
    • 제42권1호
    • /
    • pp.27.4-27.4
    • /
    • 2017
  • (1) The correlation between the mass of supermassive black holes (SMBHs) and the properties of their host galaxies suggests that SMBHs and host galaxies are closely linked in their formation and evolution. While the exact origin of their relationship is still under debate, theoretical models often invoke feedback from active galactic nuclei as a crucial mechanism for establishing the BH-host correlation. In the first part of my talk, I will present possible observational biases in the BH-host relation, and methods to overcome these biases. I will also report our efforts to find observational sign of the AGN feedback in high-z young luminous AGNs. (2) While intermediate-mass black hole (IMBH) is thought be cosmologically important class to understand the link between stellar mass black holes and SMBHs, it is extremely rare in the present-day Universe. In the second part of this talk, I will report a Gemini/GMOS-N IFU study of an ultraluminous X-ray source in NGC 5252, which is a possible candidate of an off-nuclear non-stellar black hole.

  • PDF

Improved spectral line measurements of the SDSS galaxy spectra

  • Oh, Kyu-Seok;Sarzi, Marc;Yi, Suk-Young
    • 한국우주과학회:학술대회논문집(한국우주과학회보)
    • /
    • 한국우주과학회 2009년도 한국우주과학회보 제18권2호
    • /
    • pp.35.1-35.1
    • /
    • 2009
  • We have established a database of galaxy spectral line strengths for the SDSS database using an improved line measuring method. Our work includes the entire SDSS DR7 galaxies within redshift of 0.2. The absorption line strengths measured by the SDSS pipeline are seriously contaminated by emission filling. Our code, GANDALF (gas and absorption line fitting code) performs more accurate measurements by effectively separating emission lines from absorption lines. A significant improvement has also been made on the velocity dispersion measurement, more notably in late-type galaxies. We have also identified a number of broad line region galaxies which were misclassified as normal galaxies by the SDSS pipeline. We developed an effective method measuring their line strengths. The database will be provided with new parameters that are indicative of the line strength measurement quality. In addition, we made galaxy templates for the Hubble sequence. The database will be useful for many fields of galaxy studies including star formation and AGN activities.

  • PDF

Satellite Overquenching Problem

  • Yi, Suk-Young;Kimm, Tay-Sun
    • 한국우주과학회:학술대회논문집(한국우주과학회보)
    • /
    • 한국우주과학회 2009년도 한국우주과학회보 제18권2호
    • /
    • pp.34.3-34.3
    • /
    • 2009
  • We have investigated the recent star formation history of the nearby galaxies using the SDSS optical and Galex UV data. To everyone's surprise, we found that roughly 30 percent of elliptical galaxies had a residual star formation in the last billion years, suggesting that residual star formation has been common even in ellipticals. Galaxy evolution models based on semi-analytic prescriptions including AGN feedback reasonably reproduce the star formation properties of elliptical galaxies. However, we found that the current galaxy models miserably fail to reproduce the star formation properties of satellite disc galaxies in cluster environments. Satellite disc galaxies in models are overly star-formation quenched in comparison to observation. Detailed investigations led us to conclude that this is due to the use of inaccurate prescriptions for the gas content evolution in the model. I present a solution to the problem by adopting more realistic physical prescriptions.

  • PDF

Mid-Infrared Luminosity Function of Local Galaxies in the North Ecliptic Pole Region

  • 김성진;이형목
    • 천문학회보
    • /
    • 제38권1호
    • /
    • pp.38.1-38.1
    • /
    • 2013
  • We present observational estimation of the infrared (IR) luminosity function (LF) of local (z < 0.3) star-forming (SF) galaxies derived from the AKARI NEP-Wide samples. We made an analysis of the NEP-Wide data with optical spectroscopic information allowing an accurate determination of luminosity function. Spectroscopic redshifts for about 1650 objects were obtained with MMT/Hectospec and WIYN/Hydra, and the median redshifts is about 0.22. To measure the contribution of SF galaxies to the luminosity function, we excluded AGN sample by comparing their SEDs with various model template. Spectroscopic redshifts and the AKARI's continuous filter coverage in the mid-IR (MIR) wavelength (2 ~ 25 micron) enable us to avoid large uncertainties from the mid-IR SED of galaxies and corresponding k-corrections. The 8-micron luminosity function shows a good agreement with the previous works in the bright-end, whereas it seems not easy to constrain the faint-end slope. The comparison with the results of the NEP-Deep data (Goto et al. 2010) suggests the luminosity evolution to the higher redshifts, which is consistent with the down-sizing evolutionary pattern of galaxies.

  • PDF

THE COSMIC EVOLUTION OF LUMINOUS INFRARED GALAXIES: STRONG INTERACTIONS/MERGERS OF GAS-RICH DISKS

  • SANDERS D. B.
    • 천문학회지
    • /
    • 제36권3호
    • /
    • pp.149-158
    • /
    • 2003
  • Deep surveys at mid-infared through submillimeter wavelengths indicate that a substantial fraction of the total luminosity output from galaxies at high redshift (z > 1) emerges at wavelengths 30 - 300${\mu}m$. In addition, much of the star formation and AGN activity associated with galaxy building at these epochs appears to reside in a class of luminous infrared galaxies (LIGs), often so heavily enshrouded in dust that they appear as 'blank-fields' in deep optical/UV surveys. Here we present an update on the state of our current knowledge of the cosmic evolution of LIGs from z = 0 to z $\~$ 4 based on the most recent data obtained from ongoing ground-based redshift surveys of sources detected in ISO and SCUBA deep fields. A scenario for the origin and evolution of LIGs in the local Universe (z < 0.3), based on results from multiwavelength observations of several large complete samples of luminous IRAS galaxies, is then discussed.

NOVEL PICTURE OF THE AGN CENTRAL ENGINE ESTABLISHED BY X-RAY AND OPTICAL SIMULTANEOUS STUDIES

  • NODA, HIROFUMI
    • 천문학논총
    • /
    • 제30권2호
    • /
    • pp.417-421
    • /
    • 2015
  • We analyzed 0.5-45 keV data of NGC 3227 observed by Suzaku six times between 2008 October 28 and December 2. The count-count plot between the 0.5-3 keV and 3-10 keV bands exhibits a clear break, separating the data into bright and faint phases. Applying the difference spectrum method and time-averaged spectral fits to the phase data, we found the presence of two kinds of variable primary X-rays, (1) a hard primary component with ${\Gamma}{\sim}1.7$ dominating in the faint phase and (2) a soft primary continuum with ${\Gamma}{\sim}2.4$ appearing in the bright phase, both affected by partial absorption. Considering their timing and spectral characteristics, component (1) is presumably identical to a Compton continuum in the low/hard state, while component (2) may correspond to the hard tail emission in the high/soft state, or compact-jet emission. In that case, an accretion ow onto the central super massive black hole in NGC 3227 can be interpreted to include the two different states.

The $2.5-5.0{\mu}m$ Spectra Atlas of Type 1 Active Galactic Nuclei with AKARI: Establishing the Black Hole Mass Estimator of Active Galactic Nuclei with Hydrogen Brackett Lines

  • 김도형;임명신
    • 천문학회보
    • /
    • 제37권2호
    • /
    • pp.80.1-80.1
    • /
    • 2012
  • The $2.5-5.0{\mu}m$ spectrum of AGN was poorly understood due to the atmosphere effect beyond $2{\mu}m$. Nevertheless, the $2.5-5.0{\mu}m$ range includes several important lines, such as $Br{\beta}$ ($2.63{\mu}m$), $Br{\alpha}$ ($4.05{\mu}m$), PAH (3.3${\mu}m$) and many molecular or atomic lines. We compile $2.5-5.0{\mu}m$ spectra of 79 AGNs and QSOs from infrared camera (IRC) on AKARI infrared astronomy satellite. Our $2.5-5.0{\mu}m$ spectra will provide an access to full wavelength spectra of AGNs for the first time. Moreover, we present the Brackett line properties, FWHMs and luminosities, of AGNs. Using these Brackett line properties, we derive new black hole (BH) mass estimators. The new BH mass estimators using NIR hydrogen lines will be very useful to estimate BH mass of dusty red AGNs in the future.

  • PDF

The extended narrow-line region kinematics of 3 Type-2 QSOs revealed by the VLTVIMOS IFU spectra

  • 조호진;우종학
    • 천문학회보
    • /
    • 제37권2호
    • /
    • pp.88.2-88.2
    • /
    • 2012
  • We present kinematic properties of the narrow-line region in three type-2 QSOs at z~0.35, using 2-D spectra obtained with the VIMOS integral field unit spectrograph at the Very Large Telescope. One of the objects shows a line-of-sight velocity shift of the [OIII] and $H{\beta}$ lines up to 40km/s on a 15 kpc scale, which can be interpreted as either outflow or rotation. The outflow scenario is supported by the presence of blue wings and a radio structure showing lobes in the same direction. Another object features double-peaked emission lines which can be decomposed into two velocity components. Its Hubble Space Telescope image shows two nuclei separated by ~0.2"(~1kpc), implying this may be a binary AGN.

  • PDF

Narrow-line region of two radio-quiet quasars

  • 오세명;우종학
    • 천문학회보
    • /
    • 제36권1호
    • /
    • pp.53.1-53.1
    • /
    • 2011
  • We investigate the radial properties of the narrow-line region (NLR) in two radio-quiet quasars, PG1012+008 and PG1307+085, using the spectra obtained with the FORS1 at the Very Large Telescope. These high quality spectra with seeing < 0.6" enable us to extract seven two-pixel (0.4") spectra as a function of the radial distance from the accretion disk. In contrast to [OIII] narrow-band imaging, which can be contaminated by starbursts, shock-ionized gas, and tidal tails, we use emission-line diagnostic to determine the true size of the AGN-excited NLR. In this poster, we present the results based on the radial variance of $H{\beta}$ to [OIII] ${\lambda}5007$ ratio. For both targets, the [OIII] emission line exhibits a blue wing, suggesting an outflow of gas. In the case of PG1307+085, the blue wing disappears at the distance of 1". We will discuss the properties of the NLR in detail.

  • PDF