[O III] emission line in narrow-line Seyfert 1 galaxies
Abstract
Three sets of two-component profiles are used to simultaneously model the [O III]4959, 5007 and H lines for the Fe II-subtracted spectra of 149 narrow line Seyfert 1 galaxies (NLSls) from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). Using the linewidth of the narrow/core component of [O III]5007 to trace the stellar velocity dispersion instead of using the total linewidth of [O III]5007, we found that the SDSS NLSls are still deviated from the relation found in the nearby inactive galaxies, suggesting that the linewidth of the [O III] narrow/core component is likely not a good tracer of bulge velocity dispersion in NLSls, since some other studies indicate that NLS1s, like other AGN, should follow the relation. If we assume that the [O III]5007/H line ratio emitted in narrow line region ranges from one to ten, 63 objects are found to satisfied with this criterion and their H broad components should be used to calculate their virial black hole masses. These 63 objects are statically consistent with the relation. With the Chandra observation of some SDSS NLSls, for one object in these 63 objects, J143030.22-001115.1, we found that it can't be classified as a genuine NLS1. Its narrow component of H is coming from narrow line regions (NLRs). This is consistent with its very flat hard X-ray spectrum found by williams et al. (2004).
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@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0601265,
title = {[O III] emission line in narrow-line Seyfert 1 galaxies},
author = {Weihao Bian and Qirong Yuan and Yongheng Zhao},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0601265},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
5 pages, 2 figurs, accepted for publication in MNRAS