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A systematic search for hidden type 1 AGNs: gas kinematics and scaling relations

Astrophysics of Galaxies 2017-06-21 v1

Abstract

We search type 1 AGNs among emission-line galaxies, that are typically classified as type 2 AGNs based on emission line flux ratios if a broad component in the Hα\alpha line profile is not properly investigated. Using ~24,000 type 2 AGNs at z <<0.1 initially selected from Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data Release 7 by Bae, et al. 2014, we identify a sample of 611 type 1 AGNs based on the spectral fitting results and visual inspection. These hidden type 1 AGNs have relatively low luminosity with a mean broad \Ha\ luminosity, log LHα_{\rm H\alpha } == 40.73±\pm0.32 \ergs\, and low Eddington ratio with a mean log Lbol_{bol}/LEdd_{\rm Edd} == -2.04±\pm0.34, while they do follow the black hole mass - stellar velocity dispersion relation defined by the inactive galaxies and the reverberation-mapped type 1 AGNs. We investigate ionized gas outflows based on the [OIII] λ\lambda5007 kinematics, which show relatively high velocity dispersion and velocity shift, indicating that the line-of-sight velocity and velocity dispersion of the ionized gas in type 1 AGNs is on average larger than that of type 2 AGNs.

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@article{arxiv.1703.08901,
  title  = {A systematic search for hidden type 1 AGNs: gas kinematics and scaling relations},
  author = {Da-In Eun and Jong-Hak Woo and Hyun-Jin Bae},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1703.08901},
  year   = {2017}
}

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ApJ submitted, revised based on referee's comments, 12 pages, 12 figures