No Evidence for a Aystematic FEII Emission Line Redshift in Type 1 AGN

Details No Evidence for a Aystematic FEII Emission Line Redshift in Type 1 AGN No Evidence for a Aystematic FEII Emission Line Redshift in Type 1 AGN

2012-03-27

arxiv.org/abs/1203.5992v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics

12 pages, 1 table, 1 figure - accepted for publication in ApJ Letters

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We test the recent claim by Hu et al. (2008) that FeII emission in Type 1 AGN shows a systematic redshift relative to the local source rest frame and broad-line Hbeta. We compile high s/n median composites using SDSS spectra from both the Hu et al. sample and our own sample of the 469 brightest DR5 spectra. Our composites are generated in bins of FWHM Hbeta and FeII strength as defined in our 4D Eigenvector 1 (4DE1) formalism. We find no evidence for a systematic FeII redshift and consistency with previous assumptions that FeII shift and width (FWHM) follow Hbeta shift and FWHM in virtually all sources. This result is consistent with the hypothesis that FeII emission (quasi-ubiquitous in type 1 sources) arises from a broad-line region with geometry and kinematics the same as that producing the Balmer lines.

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