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Evidence of AGN-driven Outflows in Young Radio Quasars Selected from the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 July 2014

Minjin Kim ,
Luis C. Ho ,
Carol J. Lonsdale ,
Mark Lacy ,
Andrew W. Blain  and
Amy E. Kimball
Minjin Kim
Affiliation:
The Observatories of the Carnegie Institution for Science, 813 Santa Barbara Street, Pasadena, CA 91101, USA Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute, Daejeon 305-348, Republic of Korea email: mjkim@obs.carnegiescience.edu
Luis C. Ho
Affiliation:
The Observatories of the Carnegie Institution for Science, 813 Santa Barbara Street, Pasadena, CA 91101, USA Kavli Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics, Peking University, Beijing, China
Carol J. Lonsdale
Affiliation:
National Radio Astronomy Observatory, 520 Edgemont Road, Charlottesville, VA 22903, USA
Mark Lacy
Affiliation:
National Radio Astronomy Observatory, 520 Edgemont Road, Charlottesville, VA 22903, USA
Andrew W. Blain
Affiliation:
Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Leicester, Leicester, UK
Amy E. Kimball
Affiliation:
National Radio Astronomy Observatory, 520 Edgemont Road, Charlottesville, VA 22903, USA
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Abstract

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We present near-infrared spectra of young radio quasars selected by cross-correlating the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) all-sky survey catalog with the radio catalog [Faint Images of the Radio Sky at Twenty cm (FIRST) and NRAO VLA Sky Survey (NVSS)]. The objects have typical redshifts of z ≈ 2 and [O III] luminosities of 107 erg s−1 comparable to those of luminous quasars. The observed flux ratios of narrow emission lines indicate that these objects appear to be powered by active galactic nuclei. The [O III] line is broad, with full width at half maximum ~1300 to 2100 km s−1, significantly larger than that of ordinary quasars. These large line widths might be explained by jet-induced outflows.

Keywords

quasars: general
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Contributed Papers
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Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union , Volume 9 , Symposium S304: Multiwavelength AGN Surveys and Studies , October 2013 , pp. 347 - 348
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Copyright © International Astronomical Union 2014 

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