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Ionized gas outflows in infrared-bright dust-obscured galaxies selected with WISE and SDSS

Astrophysics of Galaxies 2017-12-13 v1

Abstract

We present the ionized gas properties of infrared (IR)-bright dust-obscured galaxies (DOGs) that show an extreme optical/IR color, (i[22])AB>7.0(i - [22])_{\rm AB} > 7.0, selected with the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) and Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE). For 36 IR-bright DOGs that show [OIII]λ\lambda5007 emission in the SDSS spectra, we performed a detailed spectral analysis to investigate their ionized gas properties. In particular, we measured the velocity offset (the velocity with respect to the systemic velocity measured from the stellar absorption lines) and the velocity dispersion of the [OIII] line. We found that the derived velocity offset and dispersion of most IR-bright DOGs are larger than those of Seyfert 2 galaxies (Sy2s) at z<0.3z < 0.3, meaning that the IR-bright DOGs show relatively strong outflows compared to Sy2s. This can be explained by the difference of IR luminosity contributed from active galactic nucleus, LIRL_{\rm IR} (AGN), because we found that (i) LIRL_{\rm IR} (AGN) correlates with the velocity offset and dispersion of [OIII] and (ii) our IR-bright DOGs sample has larger LIRL_{\rm IR} (AGN) than Sy2s. Nevertheless, the fact that about 75% IR-bright DOGs have a large (>> 300 km s1^{-1}) velocity dispersion, which is a larger fraction compared to other AGN populations, suggests that IR-bright DOGs are good laboratories to investigate AGN feedback. The velocity offset and dispersion of [OIII] and [NeIII]λ\lambda3869 are larger than those of [OII]λ\lambda3727, which indicates that the highly ionized gas tends to show more stronger outflows.

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@article{arxiv.1710.02525,
  title  = {Ionized gas outflows in infrared-bright dust-obscured galaxies selected with WISE and SDSS},
  author = {Yoshiki Toba and Hyun-Jin Bae and Tohru Nagao and Jong-Hak Woo and Wei-Hao Wang and Alexander Y. Wagner and Ai-Lei Sun and Yu-Yen Chang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1710.02525},
  year   = {2017}
}

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19 pages, 16 figures, and 2 tables, accepted for publication in ApJ