Gas Metallicity of Narrow-Line Regions in Narrow-Line Seyfert 1 Galaxies and Broad-Line Seyfert 1 Galaxies

Details Gas Metallicity of Narrow-Line Regions in Narrow-Line Seyfert 1 Galaxies and Broad-Line Seyfert 1 Galaxies Gas Metallicity of Narrow-Line Regions in Narrow-Line Seyfert 1 Galaxies and Broad-Line Seyfert 1 Galaxies

2002-04-10

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0204171v1

Astrophys.J. 575 (2002) 721-731

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

12 pages including 10 figures, to appear in The Astrophysical Journal

Scientific paper

10.1086/341355

We investigate gas metallicity of narrow-line regions in narrow-line Seyfert 1 galaxies (NLS1s) and broad-line ones (BLS1s) in order to examine whether or not there is a difference in the gas metallicity between the two populations of Seyfert 1 galaxies. We apply two methods to study this issue. One is to use the emission-line flux ratio of [N II]6583/H_alpha in combination with some other optical emission-line flux ratios. This method, which has been often applied to Seyfert 2 galaxies, suggests that the gas metallicity of narrow-line regions is indistinguishable or possibly higher in BLS1s than in NLS1s. On the contrary, the other method in which only forbidden emission-line fluxes are used results in that NLS1s tend to possess metal-richer gas in the narrow-line regions than BLS1s. We point out that this inconsistency may be owing to the contamination of the broad component of permitted lines into the narrow component of ones in the first method. Since the results derived by using only forbidden emission-line fluxes do not suffer from any uncertainty of the fitting function for the broad component of Balmer lines, the results from this method are more reliable than those derived by using permitted lines. We thus conclude that the gas metallicity of narrow-line regions tends to be higher in NLS1s than in BLS1s.

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