Fe II Emission in 14 Low-Redshift Quasars: I - Observations

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2006-06-02

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0606040v1

Astrophys.J.650:57-79,2006

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

50 pages, 10 figures, accepted for publication in ApJ

Scientific paper

10.1086/506376

We present the spectra of 14 quasars with a wide coverage of rest wavelengths from 1000 to 7300 A. The redshift ranges from z = 0.061 to 0.555 and the luminosity from M_{B} = -22.69 to -26.32. We describe the procedure of generating the template spectrum of Fe II line emission from the spectrum of a narrow-line Seyfert 1 galaxy I Zw 1 that covers two wavelength regions of 2200-3500 A and 4200-5600 A. Our template Fe II spectrum is semi-empirical in the sense that the synthetic spectrum calculated with the CLOUDY photoionization code is used to separate the Fe II emission from the Mg II line. The procedure of measuring the strengths of Fe II emission lines is twofold; (1) subtracting the continuum components by fitting models of the power-law and Balmer continua in the continuum windows which are relatively free from line emissions, and (2) fitting models of the Fe II emission based on the Fe II template to the continuum-subtracted spectra. From 14 quasars, we obtained the Fe II fluxes in five wavelength bands, the total flux of Balmer continuum, and the fluxes of Mg II, Halpha, and other emission lines, together with the full width at half maxima (FWHMs) of these lines. Regression analysis was performed by assuming a linear relation between any two of these quantities. Eight correlations were found with a confidence level higher than 99%. The fact that six of these eight are related to FWHM or M_{BH} may imply that M_{BH} is a fundamental quantity that controls Gamma or the spectral energy distribution (SED) of the incident continuum, which in turn controls the Fe II emission. Furthermore, it is worthy of noting that Fe II(O1)/Fe II(U1) is found to tightly correlate with Fe II(O1)/Mg II, but not with Fe II(U1)/Mg II.

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