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Eddington Ratios of Dust-obscured Quasars at $z \lesssim 1$: Evidence Supporting Dust-obscured Quasars as Young Quasars
| العنوان: | Eddington Ratios of Dust-obscured Quasars at $z \lesssim 1$: Evidence Supporting Dust-obscured Quasars as Young Quasars |
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| المؤلفون: | Kim, Dohyeong, Kim, Yongjung, Im, Myungshin, Glikman, Eilat, Kim, Minjin, Urrutia, Tanya, Lim, Gu |
| سنة النشر: | 2024 |
| المجموعة: | Astrophysics |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies |
| الوصف: | Dust-obscured quasars have been suspected as the intermediate stage galaxies between merger-driven star-forming galaxies and unobscured quasars. This merger-driven galaxy evolution scenario suggests that dust-obscured quasars exhibit higher Eddington ratios ($\lambda_{\rm Edd}$) than those of unobscured quasars. However, their high dust obscuration poses challenges to accurately measuring their $\lambda_{\rm Edd}$ using commonly employed bolometric luminosity ($L_{\rm bol}$) and black hole (BH) mass ($M_{\rm BH}$) estimators based on the ultraviolet (UV) or optical luminosity. Recently, Kim et al. (2023) established new estimators for $L_{\rm bol}$ and $M_{\rm BH}$ based on mid-infrared (MIR) continuum luminosity ($L_{\rm MIR}$), which are less affected by dust obscuration. These estimators enable the study of a large number of dust-obscured quasars across a wide redshift range. In this study, we measure the $\lambda_{\rm Edd}$ values of 30 dust-obscured quasars at $z \lesssim 1$, the largest sample size to date, using the $L_{\rm MIR}$-based $L_{\rm bol}$ and $M_{\rm BH}$ estimators. Our findings reveal that dust-obscured quasars exhibit significantly higher $\lambda_{\rm Edd}$ values compared to unobscured quasars. Moreover, we confirm that the enhanced $\lambda_{\rm Edd}$ values of dust-obscured quasars maintain consistency across the redshift span of 0 to 1. Our results strongly support the picture that dust-obscured quasars are in the earlier stage than unobscured quasars in the merger-driven galaxy evolutionary track. Comment: 15 pages, 13 figures, Accepted for publication in A&A |
| نوع الوثيقة: | Working Paper |
| URL الوصول: | http://arxiv.org/abs/2408.03324 |
| رقم الأكسشن: | edsarx.2408.03324 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | arXiv |
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