XMM-Newton spectroscopy of high-redshift QSOs

Details XMM-Newton spectroscopy of high-redshift QSOs XMM-Newton spectroscopy of high-redshift QSOs

2005-08-24

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0508524v1

Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc.364:195-207,2005

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

15 pages, 7 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS

Scientific paper

10.1111/j.1365-2966.2005.09550.x

XMM-Newton observations of 29 high redshift (z>2) quasars, including seven radio-quiet, 16 radio-loud and six Broad Absorption Line (BAL) objects, are presented; due to the high redshifts, the rest-frame energy bands extend up to \~30-70 keV. Over 2-10 keV, the quasars can be well fitted in each case by a simple power-law, with no strong evidence for iron emission lines. The lack of iron lines is in agreement both with dilution by the radio jet emission (for the radio-loud quasars) and the X-ray Baldwin effect. No Compton reflection humps at higher energies (i.e., above 10 keV in the rest frame) are detected either. Over the broad-band (0.3-10 keV), approximately half (nine out of 16) of the radio-loud quasars are intrinsically absorbed, with the values of N_H generally being 1-2 x 10^22 cm^-2 in the rest frames of the objects. None of the seven radio-quiet objects shows excess absorption, while four of the six BAL quasars are absorbed. The radio-loud quasars have flatter continuum slopes than their radio-quiet counterparts (Gamma_RL ~ 1.55; Gamma_RQ ~ 1.98 over 2-10 keV), while, after modelling the absorption, the underlying photon index for the six BAL quasars is formally consistent with the non-BAL radio-quiet objects.

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