Red Quasars: Selecting Candidates in SDSS DR16 and Estimating Their Physical Parameters

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Hauptverfasser: Piotrovich, M. Yu., Buliga, S. D., Natsvlishvili, T. M.
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author Piotrovich, M. Yu.
Buliga, S. D.
Natsvlishvili, T. M.
author_facet Piotrovich, M. Yu.
Buliga, S. D.
Natsvlishvili, T. M.
contents Using ''color cut'' method we obtained from SDSS DR16 catalog 733 red quasar candidates which amounted to approximately 4% of the objects from the initial sample. Then we estimated the radiative efficiency, spins, inclination angles, and corresponding new SMBH masses for all 733 objects using three theoretical models. Obtained spin distributions contain a large percentage of objects with retrograde rotation. It may indicate that these are either very young objects or objects that formed as a result of mergers. The dependencies of the estimated spin values on SMBH masses show strong correlation with linear fit slope 0.9-1.0 which allows us to assume that red quasars are likely to contain both Seyferts and NLS1, and that the main mechanism of SMBH mass growth in these objects is disk accretion.
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spellingShingle Red Quasars: Selecting Candidates in SDSS DR16 and Estimating Their Physical Parameters
Piotrovich, M. Yu.
Buliga, S. D.
Natsvlishvili, T. M.
High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
Using ''color cut'' method we obtained from SDSS DR16 catalog 733 red quasar candidates which amounted to approximately 4% of the objects from the initial sample. Then we estimated the radiative efficiency, spins, inclination angles, and corresponding new SMBH masses for all 733 objects using three theoretical models. Obtained spin distributions contain a large percentage of objects with retrograde rotation. It may indicate that these are either very young objects or objects that formed as a result of mergers. The dependencies of the estimated spin values on SMBH masses show strong correlation with linear fit slope 0.9-1.0 which allows us to assume that red quasars are likely to contain both Seyferts and NLS1, and that the main mechanism of SMBH mass growth in these objects is disk accretion.
title Red Quasars: Selecting Candidates in SDSS DR16 and Estimating Their Physical Parameters
topic High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.00608