A POSSIBLE ULTRA STRONG AND BROAD Fe Kα EMISSION LINE IN SEYFERT 2 GALAXY IRAS 00521-7054
We present XMM-Newton spectra of the Seyfert 2 Galaxy IRAS 00521-7054. A strong feature at {approx}6 keV (observer's frame) can be formally fitted with a strong (EW = 1.3 {+-} 0.3 keV in the rest frame) and broad Fe K{alpha} line, extending down to 3 keV. The underlying X-ray continuum could be fitted with an absorbed power law (with {Gamma} = 1.8 {+-} 0.2 and N{sub H} 5.9{sup +0.6}{sub -0.7} Multiplication-Sign 10{sup 22} cm{sup -2}) plus a soft component. If due to relativistically smeared reflection by an X-ray illuminated accretion disk, the spin of the supermassive black hole (SMBH) is constrained to be 0.97{sup +0.03}{sub -0.13} (errors at 90% confidence level for one interesting parameter), and the accretion system is viewed at an inclination angle of 37 Degree-Sign {+-} 4 Degree-Sign . This would be the first type 2 active galactic nucleus reported with strong red Fe K{alpha} wing detected which demands a fast rotating SMBH. The unusually large EW would suggest that the light bending effect is strong in this source. Alternatively, the spectra could be fitted by a dual-absorber model (though with a global {chi}{sup 2} higher by {approx}6 for 283 dof) with N{sub H1} 7.0 {+-} 0.8more » Multiplication-Sign 10{sup 22} cm{sup -2} covering 100% of the X-ray source, and N{sub H2} = 21.7{sup +5.6}{sub -5.4} Multiplication-Sign 10{sup 22} cm{sup -2} covering 71%, which does not require an extra broad Fe K{alpha} line.« less

title: The 172 ks Chandra Exposure of the LALA Bootes Field: X-Ray Source Catalog
abstract: We present an analysis of a deep, 172 ks Chandra observation of the Large Area Lyman Alpha survey (LALA) Bootes field, obtained with the Advanced CCD Imaging Spectrometer (ACIS-I) on board the Chandra X-Ray Observatory. This is one of the deepest Chandra images of the extragalactic sky; only the 2 Ms Chandra Deep Field North (CDF-N) and 1 Ms Chandra Deep Field South (CDF-S) are substantially deeper. In this paper we present the X-ray source catalog obtained from this image, along with an analysis of source counts and optical identifications. The X-ray image is composed of two individual observations obtained in 2002 and reaches 0.5–2.0 and 2.0–10.0 keV flux limits of 1.5 × 10-16 and 1.0 × 10-15 ergs cm-2 s-1, respectively, for point sources near the aim point. A total of 168 X-ray sources were detected: 160 in the 0.5–7.0 keV band, 132 in the 0.5–2.0 keV band, and 111 in the 2.0–7.0 keV band. The X-ray source counts were derived and compared with those from other Chandra deep surveys; the hard X-ray source density of the LALA Bootes field is 33% higher than that of CDF-S at the flux level of 2.0 × 10-15 ergs cm-2 s-1, confirming the field-to-field variances of the hard-band source counts reported by previous studies. The deep exposure resolves 72% of the 2.0–10.0 keV X-ray background. Our primary optical data are R-band imaging from the NOAO Deep Wide-Field Survey (NDWFS), with a limiting magnitude of R = 25.7 (Vega, 3 σ, and 4'' diameter aperture). We have found optical counterparts for 152 of the 168 Chandra sources (90%); 144 of these are detected in the R-band image, and eight have optical counterparts in other bands (either BW, V, I, or z'). Among the R-band nondetected sources, not more than 11 of them can possibly be at z > 5, based on the hardness ratios of their X-ray emission and nondetections in bluer bands (BW, V). The majority (~76%) of the X-ray sources are found to have log(fX/fR) within 0.0 ± 1; these are believed to be AGNs. Most of the X-ray–faint/optically bright sources [log(fX/fR) 1.0], which are harder in X-ray and are probably obscured AGNs.

title: Partially obscured quasars in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Early Data Release
abstract: We have compiled a sample of 21 low redshift (z . 0.3), luminous active galactic nuclei (AGN) with large Balmer decrements (Hα/Hβ > 7) using the galaxy and QSO catalogs of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Early Data Release. Using this sample we attempt to determine the fraction of quasars with large internal absorption. We find that these AGN have Strong [O III] λ5007 and broad Hα emission, and that starlight dominates the spectra in the blue band, suggesting that these objects are heavily reddened. Their narrow emission line ratios are similar to those of Seyfert 2 galaxies, yet the average [O III] λ5007 emission is ∼10 times more luminous. Applying the empirical relation between the optical continuum and the Balmer line luminosity for blue quasars, we find that the intrinsic luminosities of these 21 objects are in the range for quasars. We propose that they are obscured, intermediate type quasars analogous to type 1.8 and 1.9 Seyfert galaxies. The ratio of these optically selected, intermediate type quasars to type 1 quasars are found to be around 1, similar to that for local Seyfert galaxies. Preliminary study indicates that most of these quasars are hosted in early type galaxies.  quasars: general — galaxies: nuclei

title: Polar outflows in six broad absorption line quasars
abstract: Using radio observations by FIRST and NVSS, we build a sample of 151 radio-variable quasars selected from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data Release 3 (SDSS DR3). Six (and probably another two) of these objects are classified as broad absorption line (BAL) quasars and show radio flux variations of a few tens of percent within 1.5-5 yr. Such large amplitudes of variations imply brightness temperatures much higher than the inverse Compton limits (10(12) K) in all these BAL quasars, suggesting the presence of relativistic jets beaming toward the observer. The angles between the outflow and the jet are constrained to be less than similar to 20 degrees. Such BAL quasars with polar outflows are beyond the simple unification models of BAL and non-BAL quasars, which hypothesize BAL quasars as otherwise normal quasars seen nearly edge-on.

title: Relation between Starlight and Nebular Emission Lines of Star-Forming Galaxies
abstract: We present an exercise that intends to establish a relationship between the strength of nebular emission lines and optical stellar features in the spectrum of a galaxy. After accurately subtracting the stellar continuum and the underlying stellar absorption, we made reliable measurements of the emission lines of all the galaxies in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data Release 2 (SDSS DR2). More than 4000 star-forming galaxies with high S/N ratio of both the stellar spectrum and the emission lines are selected. These galaxy spectra are fitted with the 10 PCs of Yip et al., after all the emission line regions have been filtered out. We find that the flux of hydrogen Balmer emission lines, H α and H β can be well recovered from the PCs, while the metal lines are not well reproduced. The fluxes of H α and H β measured from the PC-reconstructed spectra and from the observed spectra agree well with an rms scatter of only ~0.1 dex. This result suggests that, with moderate spectral resolution and S/N ratio, the optical stellar spectrum of a galaxy can serve as an indicator of star formation rate.

title: Polarization of Quasars: Rotated and Funnel-shaped Outflow
abstract: Polarization is a useful probe to investigate the geometries and dynamics of outflow in BAL QSOs. We perform a Monte-Carlo simulation to calculate the polarization produced by resonant and electron scattering in BALR. We find: 1)A rotated and funnel-shaped outflow is preferred to explain many observed polarization features. 2)The resonant scattering can contribute a significant part of NV emission line in some QSOs.

title: Inclusive J/\psi Production In \Upsilon Decay Via Color-singlet Mechanism
abstract: In this work, we have calculated the tree level color-singlet contribution to the inclusive $J/\ensuremath{\psi}$ production in $\ensuremath{\Upsilon}$ decay of the ${\ensuremath{\alpha}}_{s}^{5}$ order QCD process $\ensuremath{\Upsilon}\ensuremath{\rightarrow}J/\ensuremath{\psi}+c\overline{c}g$ and ${\ensuremath{\alpha}}^{2}{\ensuremath{\alpha}}_{s}^{2}$ order QED processes $\ensuremath{\Upsilon}\ensuremath{\rightarrow}{\ensuremath{\gamma}}^{*}\ensuremath{\rightarrow}J/\ensuremath{\psi}+c\overline{c}$ and $\ensuremath{\Upsilon}\ensuremath{\rightarrow}J/\ensuremath{\psi}+gg$. It is found that the contribution of the QED processes is comparable with that of the QCD process and the numerical results of the QCD process alone are about an order of magnitude smaller than the previous theoretical predictions. Our prediction in total is $4.2\ifmmode\times\else\texttimes\fi{}{10}^{\ensuremath{-}5}$ which is about an order of magnitude smaller than the recent CLEO measurement on the branching fraction $\mathcal{B}(\ensuremath{\Upsilon}\ensuremath{\rightarrow}J/\ensuremath{\psi}+X)$. It indicates that the $J/\ensuremath{\psi}$ production mechanism in $\ensuremath{\Upsilon}$ decay is not well understood and further theoretical work and experimental analysis are still necessary.

title: A GENERAL-METHOD FOR CALCULATING PRINCIPAL VALUE INTEGRALS NUMERICALLY IN AN N-DIMENSIONAL REGION
abstract: Based on the antithetic cancellation technique, we propose a numerical method to calculate the N -dimensional principal value integrals. This method is powerful for numerically evaluating a multi-dimensional Feynman parameter integral with the singularity which occurs in loop calculations of quantum field theories, when some internal lines of the related Feynman diagrams are allowed by kinematics to approach to the corresponding mass shells.

title: The Cores of the Fe Kα Lines in Active Galactic Nuclei: An Extended Chandra High Energy Grating Sample
abstract: We extend the study of the core of the Fe K{alpha} emission line at {approx}6.4 keV in Seyfert galaxies reported by Yaqoob and Padmanabhan using a larger sample observed by the Chandra high-energy grating (HEG). The sample consists of 82 observations of 36 unique sources with z < 0.3. Whilst heavily obscured active galactic nuclei are excluded from the sample, these data offer some of the highest precision measurements of the peak energy of the Fe K{alpha} line, and the highest spectral resolution measurements of the width of the core of the line in unobscured and moderately obscured (N {sub H} < 10{sup 23} cm{sup -2}) Seyfert galaxies to date. From an empirical and uniform analysis, we present measurements of the Fe K{alpha} line centroid energy, flux, equivalent width (EW), and intrinsic width (FWHM). The Fe K{alpha} line is detected in 33 sources, and its centroid energy is constrained in 32 sources. In 27 sources, the statistical quality of the data is good enough to yield measurements of the FWHM. We find that the distribution in the line centroid energy is strongly peaked around the value for neutral Fe, with over 80% of the observations giving values in the rangemore » 6.38-6.43 keV. Including statistical errors, 30 out of 32 sources ({approx}94%) have a line centroid energy in the range 6.35-6.47 keV. The mean EW, among the observations in which a non-zero lower limit could be measured, was 53 {+-} 3 eV. The mean FWHM from the subsample of 27 sources was 2060 {+-} 230 km s{sup -1}. The mean EW and FWHM are somewhat higher when multiple observations for a given source are averaged. From a comparison with the H{beta} optical emission-line widths (or, for one source, Br{alpha}), we find that there is no universal location of the Fe K{alpha} line-emitting region relative to the optical broad-line region (BLR). In general, a given source may have contributions to the Fe K{alpha} line flux from parsec-scale distances from the putative black hole, down to matter a factor {approx}2 closer to the black hole than the BLR. We confirm the presence of the X-ray Baldwin effect, an anti-correlation between the Fe K{alpha} line EW and X-ray continuum luminosity. The HEG data have enabled isolation of this effect to the narrow core of the Fe K{alpha} line.« less

title: X-ray properties of the quasar He 0450-2958
abstract: We present an XMM-Newton EPIC observation of HE 0450-2958, which may be a "naked" quasar as suggested by Magain and coworkers. The XMM-Newton EPIC spectra show a substantial soft X-ray excess and a steep photon index, as well as marginal evidence for a weak Fe K alpha line. The X-ray absorption is consistent with the Galactic level. The 0.3-10 keV EPIC spectra can be fitted by a power-law plus blackbody model; however, the fit by a relativistically blurred photoionized disk reflection model is better. We estimate a black hole mass of 2(-1.3)(+7) x 10(7) M-circle dot from the X-ray variability. This broadly agrees with the value derived from the optical H beta line width. These results support a high-state Seyfert galaxy as the source. HE 0450-2958 shares properties with transitionary objects from ultraluminous infrared galaxies to quasars. We suggest that HE 0450-2958 is just in the beginning of an optical quasar window.

title: SOME PROPERTIES OF THIN GAP GAS CHAMBERS
abstract: The operation of a thin gap multiwire chamber with a CO2/n-pentane mixture is described for different wire diameters, gap distances and cathode material.