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Título: | Optical and X-ray properties of the RIXOS active galactic nuclei - I.: The continua |
Autor: | Puchnarewicz, E. M.; Mason, Keith O.; Romero-Colmenero, E.; Carrera, Francisco J. CSIC ORCID CVN ; Hasinger, Günther; McMahon, Richard G.; Mittaz, J. P. D.; Page, Matt; Carballo, R. | Palabras clave: | Galaxies: active Galaxies: Seyfert X-ray general Quasars: general Surveys |
Fecha de publicación: | 1996 | Editor: | Royal Astronomical Society Oxford University Press |
Citación: | Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 281(4): 1243-1266 (1996) | Resumen: | We present measurements of the optical and X-ray continua of 108 AGN (Seyfert 1s and quasars) from the ROSAT International X-ray/Optical Survey (RIXOS). The sample covers a wide range in redshift (0 < z < 3.3), in X-ray spectral slope (-1.5 < αx < 2.6) and in optical-to-X-ray ratio (0.4 < αox < 1.5). A correlation is found between αx and αox; similar correlations have recently been reported in other X-ray and optical samples. We also identify previously unreported relationships between the optical slope (αopt) and αx (particularly at high redshifts) and between αopt and αox. These trends show that the overall optical-to-X-ray continuum changes from convex to concave as αx hardens, demonstrating a strong behavioural link between the optical/UV big blue bump (BBB) and the soft X-ray excess, which is consistent with them being part of the same spectral component. By constructing models of the optical-to-X-ray continuum, we demonstrate that the observed correlations are consistent with an intrinsic spectrum which is absorbed through different amounts of cold gas and dust. The intrinsic spectrum is the sum of an optical-to-soft X-ray 'big bump' component and an αx = 1 power law; the column density of the cold gas ranges from 0 to ∼4 × 1021 cm-2 and the dust-to-gas ratio is assumed to be Galactic. The 'big bump' may be represented by a 7brem ∼106 K thermal bremsstrahlung or an accretion disc with a surrounding hot corona. The scatter in the data can accommodate a wide range in big bump temperature (or black hole mass) and strength. A source for the absorbing gas may be the dusty, molecular torus which lies beyond the broad-line-emitting regions, although with a much lower column density than observed in Seyfert 2 galaxies. Alternatively, it may be the bulge of a spiral host galaxy or an elliptical host galaxy. | Versión del editor: | https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/281.4.1243 | URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/10261/170070 | DOI: | 10.1093/mnras/281.4.1243 | Identificadores: | doi: 10.1093/mnras/281.4.1243 issn: 0035-8711 e-issn: 1365-2966 |
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