Miller, Philip, Rawlings, Steve, Saunders, Richard and Eales, Stephen Anthony ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7394-426X 1992. A spectrophotometric study of BQS quasars. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 254 , pp. 93-110. |
Abstract
Flux-calibrated spectra of 39 low-redshift quasars from the Bright Quasar Survey (BQS) have been used to study a near-complete data set of optically selected quasars. Statistical partial rank analysis shows that the forbidden O III luminosity is more intimately connected to the H-beta luminosity, L(H-beta), than to observed continuum luminosity, L(cont). L(H-beta) is thus considered to be a better measure than L(cont) of the photoionizing luminosity. The effects of an orientation-dependent L(cont) on the rest-frame emission-line equivalent widths, EW(H-beta), and EW(forbidden O III), have been studied. It is found that scatter in the L(H-beta) - L(cont) relation is not due to a range in broad-line covering factor, and is inconsistent with one simple orientation scheme unless objects with very high disk inclination angles are excluded by the BQS selection criteria. It is demonstrated that there exists a correlation between the full width at half maximum of the H-beta line and L(H-beta), providing evidence for a gravitationally bound H-beta-emitting region and a scaling M(central) approximately proportional to L.
Item Type: | Article |
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Date Type: | Publication |
Status: | Published |
Schools: | Physics and Astronomy |
Subjects: | Q Science > QB Astronomy |
Publisher: | Oxford University Press |
ISSN: | 0035-8711 |
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Last Modified: | 24 Oct 2022 11:46 |
URI: | https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/49271 |
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