J 2024

Effect of Extinction on Quasar Luminosity Distances Determined from UV and X-Ray Flux Measurements

ZAJAČEK, Michal, Bozena CZERNY, Narayan KHADKA, Mary Loli MARTÍNEZ-ALDAMA, Raj PRINCE et. al.

Základní údaje

Originální název

Effect of Extinction on Quasar Luminosity Distances Determined from UV and X-Ray Flux Measurements

Autoři

ZAJAČEK, Michal (703 Slovensko, garant, domácí), Bozena CZERNY, Narayan KHADKA, Mary Loli MARTÍNEZ-ALDAMA, Raj PRINCE, Swayamtrupta PANDA a Bharat RATRA

Vydání

Astrophysical Journal, IOS Publishing, 2024, 0004-637X

Další údaje

Jazyk

angličtina

Typ výsledku

Článek v odborném periodiku

Obor

10308 Astronomy

Stát vydavatele

Velká Británie a Severní Irsko

Utajení

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

Odkazy

Impakt faktor

Impact factor: 4.900 v roce 2022

Organizační jednotka

Přírodovědecká fakulta

UT WoS

001153597700001

Klíčová slova anglicky

Cosmology; Cosmological parameters; Observational cosmology; Dark energy; Active galaxies; Quasars; Emission lines; Interstellar dust extinction

Štítky

Příznaky

Mezinárodní význam, Recenzováno
Změněno: 18. 3. 2024 08:54, Mgr. Marie Šípková, DiS.

Anotace

V originále

In Khadka et al., a sample of X-ray-detected reverberation-mapped quasars was presented and applied for the comparison of cosmological constraints inferred using two well-established relations in active galactic nuclei-the X-ray/UV luminosity (L X -L UV) relation and the broad-line region radius-luminosity (R-L) relation. L X -L UV and R-L luminosity distances to the same quasars exhibit a distribution of their differences that is generally asymmetric and positively shifted for the six cosmological models we consider. We demonstrate that this behavior can be interpreted qualitatively as arising as a result of the dust extinction of UV/X-ray quasar emission. We show that the extinction always contributes to the nonzero difference between L X -L UV-based and R-L-based luminosity distances and we derive a linear relationship between the X-ray/UV color index E X-UV and the luminosity-distance difference, which also depends on the value of the L X -L UV relation slope. Taking into account the median and the peak values of the luminosity-distance difference distributions, the average X-ray/UV color index falls in the range of E over bar X-UV=0.03-0.28 mag for the current sample of 58 sources. This amount of extinction is typical for the majority of quasars and can be attributed to the circumnuclear and interstellar media of host galaxies. After applying the standard hard X-ray and far-UV extinction cuts, heavily extincted sources are removed but overall the shift toward positive values persists. The effect of extinction on luminosity distances is more pronounced for the L X -L UV relation since the extinction of UV and X-ray emissions both contribute.

Návaznosti

GX21-13491X, projekt VaV
Název: Zkoumání žhavého vesmíru a porozumění kosmické zpětné vazbě (Akronym: EHU)
Investor: Grantová agentura ČR, Exploring the Hot Universe and Understanding Comic Feedback