The weakness of soft X-ray intensity: possible physical reason for weak line quasars
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| author | Wu, Jiancheng Wu, Qingwen Jin, Chichuan Wu, Jianfeng Lei, Weihua Cao, Xinwu Fan, Xiao Lei, Xiangli Wang, Mengye Xue, Hanrui Lyu, Bing |
| author_facet | Wu, Jiancheng Wu, Qingwen Jin, Chichuan Wu, Jianfeng Lei, Weihua Cao, Xinwu Fan, Xiao Lei, Xiangli Wang, Mengye Xue, Hanrui Lyu, Bing |
| contents | Weak-line quasars (WLQs) are a notable group of active galactic nuclei (AGNs) that show unusually weak UV lines even though their optical-UV continuum shapes are similar to those of typical quasars. The physical mechanism for WLQs is an unsolved puzzle in the AGN unified model. We explore the properties of UV emission lines by performing extensive photoionization calculations based on Cloudy simulation with different spectral energy distributions (SEDs) of AGNs. The AGN continua are built from several observational empirical correlations, where the black-body emission from the cold disk, the power-law emission from the hot corona, and a soft X-ray excess component are considered. We find that the equivalent width (EW) of C {\footnotesize IV} from our models is systematically lower than observational values if the component of soft X-ray excess is neglected. The EW will increase several times and is roughly consistent with the observations after considering the soft X-ray excess component as constrained from normal type I AGNs. We find that the UV lines are weak for QSOs with quite large BH mass (e.g., $M_{\rm BH}>10^9M_{\odot}$) and weak soft X-ray emission due to the deficit of ionizing photons. As an example, we present the strength of C {\footnotesize IV} based on the multi-band SEDs for three nearby weak-line AGNs, where the weaker soft X-ray emission normally predicts the weaker lines. |
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| spellingShingle | The weakness of soft X-ray intensity: possible physical reason for weak line quasars Wu, Jiancheng Wu, Qingwen Jin, Chichuan Wu, Jianfeng Lei, Weihua Cao, Xinwu Fan, Xiao Lei, Xiangli Wang, Mengye Xue, Hanrui Lyu, Bing High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena Astrophysics of Galaxies Weak-line quasars (WLQs) are a notable group of active galactic nuclei (AGNs) that show unusually weak UV lines even though their optical-UV continuum shapes are similar to those of typical quasars. The physical mechanism for WLQs is an unsolved puzzle in the AGN unified model. We explore the properties of UV emission lines by performing extensive photoionization calculations based on Cloudy simulation with different spectral energy distributions (SEDs) of AGNs. The AGN continua are built from several observational empirical correlations, where the black-body emission from the cold disk, the power-law emission from the hot corona, and a soft X-ray excess component are considered. We find that the equivalent width (EW) of C {\footnotesize IV} from our models is systematically lower than observational values if the component of soft X-ray excess is neglected. The EW will increase several times and is roughly consistent with the observations after considering the soft X-ray excess component as constrained from normal type I AGNs. We find that the UV lines are weak for QSOs with quite large BH mass (e.g., $M_{\rm BH}>10^9M_{\odot}$) and weak soft X-ray emission due to the deficit of ionizing photons. As an example, we present the strength of C {\footnotesize IV} based on the multi-band SEDs for three nearby weak-line AGNs, where the weaker soft X-ray emission normally predicts the weaker lines. |
| title | The weakness of soft X-ray intensity: possible physical reason for weak line quasars |
| topic | High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena Astrophysics of Galaxies |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.10414 |