Document Type
Article
Publication Date
11-21-2013
Publication Title
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Department
Department of Physics and Astronomy
Abstract
The mid-infrared to ultraviolet (0.1 -- 10 μm) spectral energy distribution (SED) shapes of 407 X-ray-selected radio-quiet type 1 AGN in the wide-field ``Cosmic Evolution Survey" (COSMOS) have been studied for signs of evolution. For a sub-sample of 200 radio-quiet quasars with black hole mass estimates and host galaxy corrections, we studied their mean SEDs as a function of a broad range of redshift, bolometric luminosity, black hole mass and Eddington ratio, and compared them with the Elvis et al. (1994, E94) type 1 AGN mean SED. We found that the mean SEDs in each bin are closely similar to each other, showing no statistical significant evidence of dependence on any of the analyzed parameters. We also measured the SED dispersion as a function of these four parameters, and found no significant dependencies. The dispersion of the XMM-COSMOS SEDs is generally larger than E94 SED dispersion in the ultraviolet, which might be due to the broader ``window function'' for COSMOS quasars, and their X-ray based selection.
DOI
10.1093/mnras/stt2274
Dartmouth Digital Commons Citation
Hao, Heng; Elvis, Martin; Civano, Francesca; and Zamorani, Gianni, "Spectral Energy Distributions of Type 1 AGN in XMM-COSMOS – II. Shape Evolution" (2013). Dartmouth Scholarship. 1838.
https://digitalcommons.dartmouth.edu/facoa/1838
