Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics – Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2011-08-05
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics
33 pages, 8 figures, and 5 tables, to be published in ApJ
Scientific paper
The AGN-host co-evolution issue is investigated here by focusing on the evolution of the [\ion{O}{3}]$\lambda5007$ emission-line profile. In order to simultaneously measure both [\ion{O}{3}] line profile and circumnuclear stellar population in individual spectrum, a large sample of narrow emission-line galaxies is selected from the MPA/JHU SDSS DR7 catalog. By requiring that 1) the [\ion{O}{3}] line signal-to-noise ratio is larger than 30, 2) the [\ion{O}{3}] line width is larger than the instrumental resolution by a factor of 2, our sample finally contains 2,333 Seyfert galaxies/LINERs (AGNs), 793 transition galaxies, and 190 starforming galaxies. In additional to the commonly used profile parameters (i.e., line centroid, relative velocity shift and velocity dispersion), two dimensionless shape parameters, skewness and kurtosis, are used to quantify the line shape deviation from a pure Gaussian function. We show that the transition galaxies are systematically associated with narrower line widths and weaker [\ion{O}{3}] broad wings than the AGNs, which implies that the kinematics of the emission-line gas is different in the two kinds of objects. By combining the measured host properties and line shape parameters, we find that the AGNs with stronger blue asymmetries tend to be associated with younger stellar populations. However, the similar trend is not identified in the transition galaxies. The failure is likely resulted from a selection effect in which the transition galaxies are systematically associated with younger stellar populations than the AGNs. The evolutionary significance revealed here suggests that both NLR kinematics and outflow feedback in AGNs co-evolve with their host galaxies.
Mao Yu-Feng
Wang Jeffrey
Wei Jian-Yan
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