Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astronomy
Scientific paper
Jan 2012
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2012aas...21943514l&link_type=abstract
American Astronomical Society, AAS Meeting #219, #435.14
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astronomy
Scientific paper
We present high-resolution spectroscopic observations of 27 active galactic nuclei (AGN) with black hole masses M_BH < 2 × 10^6 M&sun;. We investigate their narrow emission line properties and compare them with those of AGN with higher mass black holes. While we are unable to determine absolute metallicities, these low-luminosity objects plausibly represent AGN with sub-solar metallicities, based on their [N II]/Hα ratios and their consistency with the Kewley et al. (2008) mass-metallicity relation. We find that these low-mass AGN have UV continuum slopes similar to those of more massive AGN based on their He II/Hβ ratio, similar blueshifts and broadening in their narrow lines with respect to ionization potential, and we see evidence of an intermediate line region whose intensity correlates with L/L_Edd in these objects. In contrast to higher-mass AGN, we find that the low-mass AGN have selectively high narrow line EWs when [O III] shows no blue wing, which could be explained by a high covering factor of lower ionization gas in the narrow-line region of objects with symmetric emission lines.
Barth Aaron J.
Greene Jenny E.
Ho Luis C.
Ludwig Randi R.
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