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Evolutionary Consequences of Dusty Tori in Active Galactic Nuclei | J.-M. Wang
; E.P. Zhang & B. Luo
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20 May 2005 | Journal: | Astrophys.J. 627 (2005) L5-L8 | Subject: | astro-ph | Affiliation: | IHEP, Beijing | Abstract: | Deep surveys of {em Chandra} and {em HST} (Hubble Space Telescope) show that active galactic nucleus (AGN) populations are changing with hard X-ray luminosities. This arises an interesting question whether the dusty torus is evolving with the central engines. We assemble a sample of 50 radio-quiet PG quasars to tackle this problem. The covering factors of the dusty tori can be estimated from the multiwavelength continuum. We find they are strongly correlated with the hard X-ray luminosity. Interestingly this correlation agrees with the fraction of type II AGNs discovered by {em Chandra} and {em HST}, implying strong evidence for that the AGN population changing results from the evolution of the tori. We also find that the frequencies of the dips around 1$mu$m in the continuum correlate with the covering factors in the present sample, indicating the dip frequencies are adjusted by the covering factors. In the scenario of fueling black hole from the torus, the covering factor is a good and the dip frequency is a potential indicator of the torus evolution. | Source: | arXiv, astro-ph/0505425 | Services: | Forum | Review | PDF | Favorites |
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