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Analysis of emission line spectra of active galaxies and fine classification for activity types

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 March 2024

A. M. Mickaelian Open the ORCID record for A. M. Mickaelian [Opens in a new window] ,
H. V. Abrahamyan Open the ORCID record for H. V. Abrahamyan [Opens in a new window] ,
G. M. Paronyan  and
G. A. Mikayelyan Open the ORCID record for G. A. Mikayelyan [Opens in a new window]
A. M. Mickaelian*
Affiliation:
NAS RA Byurakan Astrophysical Observatory (BAO)
H. V. Abrahamyan
Affiliation:
NAS RA Byurakan Astrophysical Observatory (BAO)
G. M. Paronyan
Affiliation:
NAS RA Byurakan Astrophysical Observatory (BAO)
G. A. Mikayelyan
Affiliation:
NAS RA Byurakan Astrophysical Observatory (BAO)
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email: aregmick@yahoo.com
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Abstract

Using the SDSS spectroscopy, we have carried out fine optical spectral classification for activity types for 710 AGN candidates. These objects come from a larger sample of some 2,500 candidate AGN using pre-selection by various samples; bright objects of the Catalog of Quasars and Active Galactic Nuclei, AGN candidates among X-ray sources, optically variable radio sources, IRAS extragalactic objects, etc. A number of papers have been published with the results of this spectral classification. More than 800 QSOs have been identified and classified, including 710 QSOs, Seyferts and Composites. The fine classification shows that many QSOs show the same features as Seyferts, i.e., subtypes between S1 and S2 (S1.2, S1.5, S1.8 and S1.9). We have introduced subtypes for the QSOs: QSO1.2, QSO1.5, QSO1.8, QSO1.9, though the last subtype does not appear in SDSS wavelength range due to mostly highly redshifted Hα (the main line for identification of the 1.9 subtype). Thus, independent of the luminosity (which serves as a separator between QSOs and Seyferts), AGN show the same features. We also have classified many objects as Composites, spectra having composite characteristics between Sy and LINERs, Sy and HII or LINERs and HII; in some cases all three characteristics appear together resulting as Sy/LINER/HII subtype. The QSOs subtypes together with Seyfert ones allow to follow AGN properties along larger redshift range expanding our knowledge on the evolution of AGN to more distant Universe represented by QSOs.

Keywords

galaxiesgalaxies: activegalaxies: starburstAGNtechniques: spectroscopicclassification
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Poster Paper
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Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union , Volume 18 , Symposium S371: Honoring Charlotte Moore Sitterly: Astronomical Spectroscopy in the 21st Century , August 2022 , pp. 101 - 103
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© The Author(s), 2024. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of International Astronomical Union

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