Are Optically Selected Quasars Universally X‐Ray Luminous? X‐Ray–UV Relations in Sloan Digital Sky Survey Quasars
- 1 October 2008
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Astronomical Society in The Astrophysical Journal
- Vol. 685 (2), 773-786
- https://doi.org/10.1086/590403
Abstract
We analyze archived Chandra and XMM-Newton X-ray observations of 536 Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) Data Release 5 (DR5) quasars (QSOs) at 1.7 <= z <= 2.7 in order to characterize the relative UV and X-ray spectral properties of QSOs that do not have broad UV absorption lines (BALs). We constrain the fraction of X-ray-weak, non-BAL QSOs and find that such objects are rare; for example, sources underluminous by a factor of 10 comprise less than or similar to 2% of optically selected SDSS QSOs. X-ray luminosities vary with respect to UV emission by a factor of less than or similar to 2 over several years for most sources. UV continuum reddening and the presence of narrow-line absorbing systems are not strongly associated with X-ray weakness in our sample. X-ray brightness is significantly correlated with UV emission-line properties, so that relatively X-ray-weak, non-BAL QSOs generally have weaker, blueshifted C IV lambda 1549 emission and broader C III] lambda 1909 lines. The C IV emission-line strength depends on both UV and X-ray luminosity, suggesting that the physical mechanism driving the global Baldwin effect is also associated with X-ray emission.This publication has 65 references indexed in Scilit:
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