Extinction due to amorphous carbon grains in red quasars from the SDSS

Details Extinction due to amorphous carbon grains in red quasars from the SDSS Extinction due to amorphous carbon grains in red quasars from the SDSS

2004-01-09

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0401158v1

Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc. 348 (2004) L54

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

MNRAS (in press)

Scientific paper

10.1111/j.1365-2966.2004.07590.x

We construct a quasar extinction curve based on the blue and red composite quasar spectra of Richards et al. (2003) prepared from the SDSS survey. This extinction curve does not show any traces of the 2200 A feature characteristic of the Interstellar Medium, and this indicates that graphite grains are likely absent close to quasar nuclei. The extinction is best modeled by AC amorphous carbon grains, assuming a standard distribution of grain sizes (p=3.5) but slightly larger minimum grain size (a_{min} = 0.016 microns) and lower maximum grain size (a_{min} = 0.12 microns) than the respective canonical values for the interstellar medium. The dust composition is thus similar to that of the dust in AGB stars. Since graphite grains form from amorphous carbon exposed to strong UV irradiation the results indicate that either the dust forms surprisingly far from the active nucleus or in a wind that leaves the nucleus quickly enough to avoid crystallization into graphite.

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