How Does the Polar Dust Affect the Correlation between Dust Covering Factor and Eddington Ratio in Type 1 Quasars Selected from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data Release 16?
Abstract
We revisit the dependence of the covering factor (CF) of dust torus on physical properties of active galactic nuclei (AGNs) by taking into account an AGN polar dust emission. The CF is converted from a ratio of infrared (IR) luminosity contributed from AGN dust torus ( ${L}_{\mathrm{IR}}^{\mathrm{torus}}$ ) and AGN bolometric luminosity (Lbol), by assuming a nonlinear relation between luminosity ratio and intrinsic CF. We select 37,181 type 1 quasars at z < 0.7 from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data Release 16 quasar catalog. Their Lbol, black hole mass (MBH), and Eddington ratio (λEdd) are derived by spectral fitting with QSFit. We conduct spectral energy distribution decomposition by using X-CIGALE with a clumpy torus and polar dust model to estimate ${L}_{\mathrm{IR}}^{\mathrm{torus}}$ without being affected by the contribution of stellar and AGN polar dust to IR emission. For 5752 quasars whose physical quantities are securely determined, we perform a correlation analysis on CF and (i) Lbol, (ii) MBH, and (iii) λEdd. As a result, anticorrelations for CF-Lbol, CF-MBH, and CF-λEdd are confirmed. We find that incorporating the AGN polar dust emission makes those anticorrelations stronger compared to those without considering it. This indicates that polar dust wind probably driven by AGN radiative pressure is one of the key components to regulate obscuring material of AGNs.
- Publication:
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The Astrophysical Journal
- Pub Date:
- May 2021
- DOI:
- 10.3847/1538-4357/abe94a
- arXiv:
- arXiv:2102.04620
- Bibcode:
- 2021ApJ...912...91T
- Keywords:
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- Quasars;
- Supermassive black holes;
- Catalogs;
- 1319;
- 1663;
- 205;
- Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies;
- Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
- E-Print:
- 20 pages, 14 figures, and 4 tables, accepted for publication in ApJ. Physical properties (e.g., BH mass, Eddington ratio, IR luminosity) of 37,181 quasars at z <