Quasars with redshifts greater than 4 are rare, and can be used to probe the structure and evolution of the early universe. Here we report the discovery of six new quasars with i-band magnitudes brighter than 19.5 and...Quasars with redshifts greater than 4 are rare, and can be used to probe the structure and evolution of the early universe. Here we report the discovery of six new quasars with i-band magnitudes brighter than 19.5 and redshifts between 2.4 and 4.6 from spectroscopy with the Yunnan Faint Object Spectrograph and Camera (YFOSC) at the Lijiang 2.4 m telescope in February, 2012. These quasars are in the list of z > 3.6 quasar candidates selected by using our proposed J K/i Y criterion and the photometric redshift estimations from the SDSS optical and UKIDSS near-IR photometric data. Nine candidates were observed by YFOSC, and five among six new quasars were identified as z > 3.6 quasars. One of the other three objects was identified as a star and the other two were unidentified due to the lower signal-to-noise ratio of their spectra. This is the first time that z > 4 quasars have been discovered using a telescope in China. Thanks to the Chinese Telescope Access Program (TAP), the redshift of 4.6 for one of these quasars was confirmed by the Multiple Mirror Telescope (MMT) Red Channel spectroscopy. The continuum and emission line properties of these six quasars, as well as their central black hole masses and Eddington ratios, were obtained.展开更多
We have investigated the feasibilities and accuracies of the identifications of RR Lyrae stars and quasars from the simulated data of the Multi-channel Photometric Survey Telescope(Mephisto)W Survey.Based on the varia...We have investigated the feasibilities and accuracies of the identifications of RR Lyrae stars and quasars from the simulated data of the Multi-channel Photometric Survey Telescope(Mephisto)W Survey.Based on the variable sources light curve libraries from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey(SDSS)Stripe 82 data and the observation history simulation from the Mephisto-W Survey Scheduler,we have simulated the uvgriz multi-band light curves of RR Lyrae stars,quasars and other variable sources for the first year observation of Mephisto W Survey.We have applied the ensemble machine learning algorithm Random Forest Classifier(RFC)to identify RR Lyrae stars and quasars,respectively.We build training and test samples and extract~150 features from the simulated light curves and train two RFCs respectively for the RR Lyrae star and quasar classification.We find that,our RFCs are able to select the RR Lyrae stars and quasars with remarkably high precision and completeness,with purity=95.4%and completeness=96.9%for the RR Lyrae RFC and purity=91.4%and completeness=90.2%for the quasar RFC.We have also derived relative importances of the extracted features utilized to classify RR Lyrae stars and quasars.展开更多
We study the growth of black holes and stellar population in spheroids at high redshift using several （sub）mm-loud QSO samples. Applying the same criteria established in an earlier work, we find that, similar to IR ...We study the growth of black holes and stellar population in spheroids at high redshift using several （sub）mm-loud QSO samples. Applying the same criteria established in an earlier work, we find that, similar to IR QSOs at low redshift, the far-infrared emission of these （sub）mm-loud QSOs mainly originates from dust heated by starbursts. By combining low-z IR QSOs and high-z （sub）mm-loud QSOs, we find a trend that the star formation rate （M＊） increases with the accretion rate （Mace）. We compare the values of M＊/Macc for submm emitting galaxies （SMGs）, far-infrared ultraluminous/hypeduminous QSOs and typical QSOs, and construct a likely evolution scenario for these objects. The （sub）mm-loud QSO transition phase has both high Macc and M＊ and hence is important for establishing the correlation between the masses of black holes and spheroids.展开更多
In this work,we train three decision-tree based ensemble machine learning algorithms(Random Forest Classifier,Adaptive Boosting and Gradient Boosting Decision Tree respectively)to study quasar selection in the variabl...In this work,we train three decision-tree based ensemble machine learning algorithms(Random Forest Classifier,Adaptive Boosting and Gradient Boosting Decision Tree respectively)to study quasar selection in the variable source catalog in SDSS Stripe 82.We build training and test samples(both containing 1:1 of quasars and stars)using the spectroscopic confirmed sources in SDSS DR14(including8330 quasars and 3966 stars).We find that when trained with variation parameters alone,all three models can select quasars with similarly and remarkably high precision and completeness(~98.5%and 97.5%),even better than trained with SDSS colors alone(~97.2%and 96.5%),consistent with previous studies.By applying the trained models on the variable sources without spectroscopic identifications,we estimate the spectroscopically confirmed quasar sample in Stripe 82 variable source catalog is~93%complete(95%for mi<19.0).Using the Random Forest Classifier we derive the relative importance of the observational features utilized for classifications.We further show that even using one-or two-year time domain observations,variability-based quasar selection could still be highly efficient.展开更多
基于欧文斯谷射电天文台(Owens Valley Radio Observatory,OVRO)40 m望远镜近12年的观测数据,从中收集了类星体J0132+4325在15 GHz射电波段的光变曲线数据,利用LSP和加权小波Z变换方法分析其光变准周期.结果发现,类星体CGRaBS J0132+432...基于欧文斯谷射电天文台(Owens Valley Radio Observatory,OVRO)40 m望远镜近12年的观测数据,从中收集了类星体J0132+4325在15 GHz射电波段的光变曲线数据,利用LSP和加权小波Z变换方法分析其光变准周期.结果发现,类星体CGRaBS J0132+4325存在一个约851±80天的准周期振荡.基于红噪声蒙特卡洛模拟来估算其准周期信号的置信水平,得到其置信度超过3σ(99.7%).展开更多
Long-term spectroscopic monitoring campaigns on active galactic nuclei(AGNs)provide a wealth of information about its interior structure and kinematics.However,a number of the observations suffer from the contaminatio...Long-term spectroscopic monitoring campaigns on active galactic nuclei(AGNs)provide a wealth of information about its interior structure and kinematics.However,a number of the observations suffer from the contamination of second-order spectra(SOS)which will introduce some undesirable uncertainties at the red side of the spectra.In this paper,we test the effect of SOS and propose a method to correct it in the time domain spectroscopic data using the simultaneously observed comparison stars.Based on the reverberation mapping(RM)data of NGC 5548 in2019,one of the most intensively monitored AGNs by the Lijiang 2.4 m telescope,we find that the scientific object,comparison star,and spectrophotometric standard star can jointly introduce up to~30%SOS for Grism 14.This irregular but smooth SOS significantly affects the flux density and profile of the emission line,while having little effect on the light curve.After applying our method to each spectrum,we find that the SOS can be corrected effectively.The deviation between corrected and intrinsic spectra is~2%,and the impact of SOS on time lag is very minor.This method makes it possible to obtain the HαRM measurements from archival data provided that the spectral shape of the AGN under investigation does not have a large change.展开更多
We have collected an up-to-date sample of 123 superluminal sources （84 quasars, 27 BL Lac objects and 12 galaxies） and calculated the apparent velocities （βapp） for 224 components in the sources with the A-CDM mo...We have collected an up-to-date sample of 123 superluminal sources （84 quasars, 27 BL Lac objects and 12 galaxies） and calculated the apparent velocities （βapp） for 224 components in the sources with the A-CDM model. We checked the relationships between their proper motions, redshifts,βapp and 5 GHz flux densities. Our analysis shows that the radio emission is strongly boosted by the Doppler effect. The superluminal motion and the relativistic beaming boosting effect are, to some extent, the same in active galactic nuclei.展开更多
Observing a telluric standard star for correcting the telluric absorption lines of spectrum will take a significant amount of precious telescope time,especially in the long-term spectral monitoring project.Beyond that...Observing a telluric standard star for correcting the telluric absorption lines of spectrum will take a significant amount of precious telescope time,especially in the long-term spectral monitoring project.Beyond that,it is difficult to select a suitable telluric standard star near in both time and airmass to the scientific object.In this paper,we present a method of correcting the telluric absorption lines by combining the advantages of long slit spectroscopy.By rotating the slit,we observed the scientific object and a nearby comparison star in one exposure,so that the spectra of both objects should have the same telluric transmission spectrum.The telluric transmission spectrum was constructed by dividing the observed spectrum of the comparison star by its stellar template,and was used to correct the telluric absorption lines of the scientific object.Using the long slit spectrograph of the Lijiang 2.4-meter telescope,we designed a long-term spectroscopic observation strategy,and finished a four-year spectroscopic monitoring for a pair of objects(an active galactic nucleus and a non-varying comparison star).We applied this method to correct the telluric absorption lines of the long-term monitored spectra by the Lijiang 2.4-meter telescope,and investigated the variation of the telluric absorptions at Lijiang Observatory.We found that the telluric absorption transparency is mainly modulated by the seasonal variability of the relative humidity,airmass and seeing.Using the scatter of the [O Ⅲ] λ5007 fluxes emitted from the narrow-line region of active galactic nuclei as an indicator,we found that the correction accuracy of the telluric absorption lines is 1%.展开更多
High resolution deep imaging from space and adaptive optics techniques with large ground-based facilities have enabled studies examining faint host galaxies of high redshift quasi-stellar objects (QSOs). However, the ...High resolution deep imaging from space and adaptive optics techniques with large ground-based facilities have enabled studies examining faint host galaxies of high redshift quasi-stellar objects (QSOs). However, the related image processing techniques, especially for a precise point-spread function (PSF) reconstruction and characterization of the host galaxy light profiles, have yet to be optimized. We present here the scientific performance of a principal component analysis (PCA) based PSF subtraction of the central bright point source of high redshift QSO images, as well as further characterization of the host galaxy profile by directly fitting a Sèrsic model to the residual image using the Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) algorithm. With a set of reference PSF star images which represent interleaving exposures between the QSO imaging, we can create an orthogonal basis of eigen-images and restore the PSF of QSO images by projecting the QSO images onto the basis. In this way, we can quantify the modes in which the PSF varies with time by a basis function that characterizes the temporal variations of the reference star as well as the QSO images. To verify the algorithm, we performed a simulation and applied this method to one of the high-z QSO targets from Mechtley et al. We demonstrate that the PCA-based PSF subtraction and further modeling of the galaxy’s light profile using MCMC fitting would sufficiently remove the effects from central dominating point sources, and improve characterization ability for the host galaxies of high-z QSOs to the background noise level which is much better than previous two-component fitting procedures.展开更多
It is crucial to measure the mass of supermassive black holes(SMBHs)in understanding the co-evolution between the SMBHs and their host galaxies.Previous methods usually require spectral data which are expensive to obt...It is crucial to measure the mass of supermassive black holes(SMBHs)in understanding the co-evolution between the SMBHs and their host galaxies.Previous methods usually require spectral data which are expensive to obtain.We use the AGN catalog from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey project Data Release 7(DR7)to investigate the correlations between SMBH mass and their host galaxy properties.We apply the machine learning algorithms,such as Lasso regression,to establish the correlation between the SMBH mass and various photometric properties of their host galaxies.We find an empirical formula that can predict the SMBH mass according to galaxy luminosity,colors,surface brightness,and concentration.The root-mean-square error is 0.5 dex,comparable to the intrinsic scatter in SMBH mass measurements.The 1σscatter in the relation between the SMBH mass and the combined galaxy properties relation is 0.48 dex,smaller than the scatter in the SMBH mass versus galaxy stellar mass relation.This relation could be used to study the SMBH mass function and the AGN duty cycles in the future.展开更多
The coevolution between supermassive black holes(SMBHs) and their host galaxies has been proposed for more than a decade,albeit with little direct evidence about black hole accretion activities regulating galaxy star ...The coevolution between supermassive black holes(SMBHs) and their host galaxies has been proposed for more than a decade,albeit with little direct evidence about black hole accretion activities regulating galaxy star formation at z> 1.In this paper,we study the lifetimes of X-ray active galactic nuclei(AGNs) in UV-selected red sequence(RS),blue cloud(BC) and green valley(GV) galaxies,finding that AGN accretion activities are most prominent in GV galaxies at z ~1.5-2,compared with RS and BC galaxies.We also compare AGN accretion timescales with typical color transition timescales of UV-selected galaxies.We find that the lifetime of GV galaxies at z~1.5-2 is very close to the typical timescale when the AGNs residing in them stay in the high-accretion-rate mode at these redshifts;for BC galaxies,the consistency between the color transition timescale and the black hole strong accretion lifetime is more likely to happen at lower redshifts(z <1).Our results support the scenario where AGN accretion activities govern UV color transitions of host galaxies,making galaxies and their central SMBHs coevolve with each other.展开更多
基金the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 11033001)
文摘Quasars with redshifts greater than 4 are rare, and can be used to probe the structure and evolution of the early universe. Here we report the discovery of six new quasars with i-band magnitudes brighter than 19.5 and redshifts between 2.4 and 4.6 from spectroscopy with the Yunnan Faint Object Spectrograph and Camera (YFOSC) at the Lijiang 2.4 m telescope in February, 2012. These quasars are in the list of z > 3.6 quasar candidates selected by using our proposed J K/i Y criterion and the photometric redshift estimations from the SDSS optical and UKIDSS near-IR photometric data. Nine candidates were observed by YFOSC, and five among six new quasars were identified as z > 3.6 quasars. One of the other three objects was identified as a star and the other two were unidentified due to the lower signal-to-noise ratio of their spectra. This is the first time that z > 4 quasars have been discovered using a telescope in China. Thanks to the Chinese Telescope Access Program (TAP), the redshift of 4.6 for one of these quasars was confirmed by the Multiple Mirror Telescope (MMT) Red Channel spectroscopy. The continuum and emission line properties of these six quasars, as well as their central black hole masses and Eddington ratios, were obtained.
基金funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(NSFC)Nos.11803029,11833006 and 12173034the National Training Program of Innovation and Entrepreneurship for Undergraduates of China No.201910673001,Yunnan University grant C176220100007+8 种基金the National Key R&D Program of China No.2019YFA0405500the science research grants from the China Manned Space Project with Nos.CMS-CSST-2021-A09,CMS-CSST-2021-A08 and CMS-CSST2021-B03Funding for SDSS-Ⅲhas been provided by the Alfred P.Sloan Foundation,the Participating Institutions,the National Science Foundation,and the U.S.Department of Energy Office of ScienceThe national facility capability for Sky Mapper has been funded through ARC LIEF grant LE130100104 from the Australian Research CouncilDevelopment and support of the Sky Mapper node of the ASVO has been funded in part by Astronomy Australia Limited(AAL)the Australian Government through the Commonwealth’s Education Investment Fund(EIF)National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy(NCRIS)the National e Research Collaboration Tools and Resources(Ne CTAR)the Australian National Data Service Projects(ANDS)。
文摘We have investigated the feasibilities and accuracies of the identifications of RR Lyrae stars and quasars from the simulated data of the Multi-channel Photometric Survey Telescope(Mephisto)W Survey.Based on the variable sources light curve libraries from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey(SDSS)Stripe 82 data and the observation history simulation from the Mephisto-W Survey Scheduler,we have simulated the uvgriz multi-band light curves of RR Lyrae stars,quasars and other variable sources for the first year observation of Mephisto W Survey.We have applied the ensemble machine learning algorithm Random Forest Classifier(RFC)to identify RR Lyrae stars and quasars,respectively.We build training and test samples and extract~150 features from the simulated light curves and train two RFCs respectively for the RR Lyrae star and quasar classification.We find that,our RFCs are able to select the RR Lyrae stars and quasars with remarkably high precision and completeness,with purity=95.4%and completeness=96.9%for the RR Lyrae RFC and purity=91.4%and completeness=90.2%for the quasar RFC.We have also derived relative importances of the extracted features utilized to classify RR Lyrae stars and quasars.
基金Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China.
文摘We study the growth of black holes and stellar population in spheroids at high redshift using several （sub）mm-loud QSO samples. Applying the same criteria established in an earlier work, we find that, similar to IR QSOs at low redshift, the far-infrared emission of these （sub）mm-loud QSOs mainly originates from dust heated by starbursts. By combining low-z IR QSOs and high-z （sub）mm-loud QSOs, we find a trend that the star formation rate （M＊） increases with the accretion rate （Mace）. We compare the values of M＊/Macc for submm emitting galaxies （SMGs）, far-infrared ultraluminous/hypeduminous QSOs and typical QSOs, and construct a likely evolution scenario for these objects. The （sub）mm-loud QSO transition phase has both high Macc and M＊ and hence is important for establishing the correlation between the masses of black holes and spheroids.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant Nos.11421303,11890693)the National Basic Research Program of China(973 program,Grant No.2015CB857005)CAS Frontier Science Key Research Program(QYZDJ-SSW-SLH006)。
文摘In this work,we train three decision-tree based ensemble machine learning algorithms(Random Forest Classifier,Adaptive Boosting and Gradient Boosting Decision Tree respectively)to study quasar selection in the variable source catalog in SDSS Stripe 82.We build training and test samples(both containing 1:1 of quasars and stars)using the spectroscopic confirmed sources in SDSS DR14(including8330 quasars and 3966 stars).We find that when trained with variation parameters alone,all three models can select quasars with similarly and remarkably high precision and completeness(~98.5%and 97.5%),even better than trained with SDSS colors alone(~97.2%and 96.5%),consistent with previous studies.By applying the trained models on the variable sources without spectroscopic identifications,we estimate the spectroscopically confirmed quasar sample in Stripe 82 variable source catalog is~93%complete(95%for mi<19.0).Using the Random Forest Classifier we derive the relative importance of the observational features utilized for classifications.We further show that even using one-or two-year time domain observations,variability-based quasar selection could still be highly efficient.
文摘基于欧文斯谷射电天文台(Owens Valley Radio Observatory,OVRO)40 m望远镜近12年的观测数据,从中收集了类星体J0132+4325在15 GHz射电波段的光变曲线数据,利用LSP和加权小波Z变换方法分析其光变准周期.结果发现,类星体CGRaBS J0132+4325存在一个约851±80天的准周期振荡.基于红噪声蒙特卡洛模拟来估算其准周期信号的置信水平,得到其置信度超过3σ(99.7%).
基金funded by the National Key R&D Program of China with No.2021YFA1600404the National Natural Science Foundation of China(NSFC+6 种基金grant Nos.11991051,12303022,12373018,12203096,12103041,12073068)Yunnan Fundamental Research Projects(grant Nos.202301AT070339,202301AT070358)Yunnan Postdoctoral Foundation Funding Project,the Yunnan Province Foundation(202001AT070069)the Youth Innovation Promotion Association of the Chinese Academy of Sciences(2022058)the Topnotch Young Talents Program of Yunnan Province,Special Research Assistant Funding Project of Chinese Academy of Sciencesthe science research grants from the China Manned Space Project with No.CMS-CSST-2021-A06Funding for the telescope has been provided by the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the People’s Government of Yunnan Province。
文摘Long-term spectroscopic monitoring campaigns on active galactic nuclei(AGNs)provide a wealth of information about its interior structure and kinematics.However,a number of the observations suffer from the contamination of second-order spectra(SOS)which will introduce some undesirable uncertainties at the red side of the spectra.In this paper,we test the effect of SOS and propose a method to correct it in the time domain spectroscopic data using the simultaneously observed comparison stars.Based on the reverberation mapping(RM)data of NGC 5548 in2019,one of the most intensively monitored AGNs by the Lijiang 2.4 m telescope,we find that the scientific object,comparison star,and spectrophotometric standard star can jointly introduce up to~30%SOS for Grism 14.This irregular but smooth SOS significantly affects the flux density and profile of the emission line,while having little effect on the light curve.After applying our method to each spectrum,we find that the SOS can be corrected effectively.The deviation between corrected and intrinsic spectra is~2%,and the impact of SOS on time lag is very minor.This method makes it possible to obtain the HαRM measurements from archival data provided that the spectral shape of the AGN under investigation does not have a large change.
基金Supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China(11073007,10573005,10273019)National Natural Science Foundation of China(NSFC 10633010)+2 种基金the 973 programme(2007CB815405)the Bureau of Education of Guangzhou Municipality(11 Sui-Jiao-Ke[2009])GDUPS(2009)
文摘提出和完善了一个分析类星体能谱数据的方法.利用该方法,可以发现并测出类星体的吸收线.文章还通过取自Sloan Digital Sky Survey样本的3个类星体的能谱数据。
基金Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(11073007)Guangzhou Technological Project(11C62010685)Guangxi Natural Science Foundation(2012jjAA10090)
基金the NSFC(Grants 10573005 and 10633010)the 973 project(2007CB815405)
文摘We have collected an up-to-date sample of 123 superluminal sources （84 quasars, 27 BL Lac objects and 12 galaxies） and calculated the apparent velocities （βapp） for 224 components in the sources with the A-CDM model. We checked the relationships between their proper motions, redshifts,βapp and 5 GHz flux densities. Our analysis shows that the radio emission is strongly boosted by the Doppler effect. The superluminal motion and the relativistic beaming boosting effect are, to some extent, the same in active galactic nuclei.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(NSFCGrant Nos.11991051,12073068,11703077,and 11803087)+2 种基金financial support from the Yunnan Province Foundation(202001AT070069)the Light of West China Program provided by Chinese Academy of Sciences(Y7XB016001)financial support from the Light of West China Program provided by Chinese Academy of Sciences(Y8XB018001)。
文摘Observing a telluric standard star for correcting the telluric absorption lines of spectrum will take a significant amount of precious telescope time,especially in the long-term spectral monitoring project.Beyond that,it is difficult to select a suitable telluric standard star near in both time and airmass to the scientific object.In this paper,we present a method of correcting the telluric absorption lines by combining the advantages of long slit spectroscopy.By rotating the slit,we observed the scientific object and a nearby comparison star in one exposure,so that the spectra of both objects should have the same telluric transmission spectrum.The telluric transmission spectrum was constructed by dividing the observed spectrum of the comparison star by its stellar template,and was used to correct the telluric absorption lines of the scientific object.Using the long slit spectrograph of the Lijiang 2.4-meter telescope,we designed a long-term spectroscopic observation strategy,and finished a four-year spectroscopic monitoring for a pair of objects(an active galactic nucleus and a non-varying comparison star).We applied this method to correct the telluric absorption lines of the long-term monitored spectra by the Lijiang 2.4-meter telescope,and investigated the variation of the telluric absorptions at Lijiang Observatory.We found that the telluric absorption transparency is mainly modulated by the seasonal variability of the relative humidity,airmass and seeing.Using the scatter of the [O Ⅲ] λ5007 fluxes emitted from the narrow-line region of active galactic nuclei as an indicator,we found that the correction accuracy of the telluric absorption lines is 1%.
基金support of a grant from the John Templeton Foundation and the National Astronomical Observatories, Chinese Academy of Sciencesthe Subaru team and the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 11890694)+1 种基金the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 10173025, 10673013, 10778709, 11073031 and 11653005)the National Basic Research Program of China (973 Program, TG 2000077602)
文摘High resolution deep imaging from space and adaptive optics techniques with large ground-based facilities have enabled studies examining faint host galaxies of high redshift quasi-stellar objects (QSOs). However, the related image processing techniques, especially for a precise point-spread function (PSF) reconstruction and characterization of the host galaxy light profiles, have yet to be optimized. We present here the scientific performance of a principal component analysis (PCA) based PSF subtraction of the central bright point source of high redshift QSO images, as well as further characterization of the host galaxy profile by directly fitting a Sèrsic model to the residual image using the Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) algorithm. With a set of reference PSF star images which represent interleaving exposures between the QSO imaging, we can create an orthogonal basis of eigen-images and restore the PSF of QSO images by projecting the QSO images onto the basis. In this way, we can quantify the modes in which the PSF varies with time by a basis function that characterizes the temporal variations of the reference star as well as the QSO images. To verify the algorithm, we performed a simulation and applied this method to one of the high-z QSO targets from Mechtley et al. We demonstrate that the PCA-based PSF subtraction and further modeling of the galaxy’s light profile using MCMC fitting would sufficiently remove the effects from central dominating point sources, and improve characterization ability for the host galaxies of high-z QSOs to the background noise level which is much better than previous two-component fitting procedures.
基金the National Key Research and Development of China(Grant No.2018YFA0404503)NSFC(Grant Nos.12033008 and 11988101)+1 种基金the K.C.Wong Education Foundationthe science research grants from the China·Manned Space Project with No.CMS-CSST-2021-A03。
文摘It is crucial to measure the mass of supermassive black holes(SMBHs)in understanding the co-evolution between the SMBHs and their host galaxies.Previous methods usually require spectral data which are expensive to obtain.We use the AGN catalog from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey project Data Release 7(DR7)to investigate the correlations between SMBH mass and their host galaxy properties.We apply the machine learning algorithms,such as Lasso regression,to establish the correlation between the SMBH mass and various photometric properties of their host galaxies.We find an empirical formula that can predict the SMBH mass according to galaxy luminosity,colors,surface brightness,and concentration.The root-mean-square error is 0.5 dex,comparable to the intrinsic scatter in SMBH mass measurements.The 1σscatter in the relation between the SMBH mass and the combined galaxy properties relation is 0.48 dex,smaller than the scatter in the SMBH mass versus galaxy stellar mass relation.This relation could be used to study the SMBH mass function and the AGN duty cycles in the future.
基金support from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (grant Nos. 12025303, 11890693,11421303 and 12003031)the CAS Frontier Science Key Research Program (QYZDJ-SSW-SLH006)+2 种基金the K.C. Wong Education Foundationthe science research grants from the China Manned Space Project with No. CMS-CSST-2021-A06support from the Chinese Academy of Sciences President’s International Fellowship Initiative (grant No. 2019PM0020)。
文摘The coevolution between supermassive black holes(SMBHs) and their host galaxies has been proposed for more than a decade,albeit with little direct evidence about black hole accretion activities regulating galaxy star formation at z> 1.In this paper,we study the lifetimes of X-ray active galactic nuclei(AGNs) in UV-selected red sequence(RS),blue cloud(BC) and green valley(GV) galaxies,finding that AGN accretion activities are most prominent in GV galaxies at z ~1.5-2,compared with RS and BC galaxies.We also compare AGN accretion timescales with typical color transition timescales of UV-selected galaxies.We find that the lifetime of GV galaxies at z~1.5-2 is very close to the typical timescale when the AGNs residing in them stay in the high-accretion-rate mode at these redshifts;for BC galaxies,the consistency between the color transition timescale and the black hole strong accretion lifetime is more likely to happen at lower redshifts(z <1).Our results support the scenario where AGN accretion activities govern UV color transitions of host galaxies,making galaxies and their central SMBHs coevolve with each other.
