WISE view of narrow-line Seyfert 1 galaxies Virtual Observatory Resource

Authors
  1. Rakshit S.
  2. Johnson A.
  3. Stalin C.S.
  4. Gandhi P.
  5. Hoenig S.
  6. Published by
    CDS
Abstract

We present the colour and flux variability analysis at 3.4{mu}m (W1 band) and 4.6{mu}m (W2 band) of 492 narrow-line Seyfert 1 (NLSy1) galaxies using archival data from the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE). In the WISE colour-colour, (W1-W2) versus (W2-W3) diagram, ~58 per cent of the NLSy1 galaxies of our sample lie in the region occupied by the blazar category of active galactic nuclei (AGNs). The mean W1-W2 colour of candidate variable NLSy1 galaxies is 0.99+/-0.18mag. The average amplitude of variability is 0.11+/-0.07mag in long term (multiyear) with no difference in variability between W1 and W2 bands. The W1-W2 colour of NLSy1 galaxies is anticorrelated with the relative strength of [OIII] to H{beta}, strongly correlated with continuum luminosity, black hole mass, and Eddington ratio. The long-term amplitude of variability shows weak anticorrelation with the FeII strength, continuum luminosity and Eddington ratio. A positive correlation between colour as well as the amplitude of variability with the radio power at 1.4GHz was found for the radio-detected NLSy1 galaxies. This suggests non-thermal synchrotron contribution to the mid-infrared colour and flux variability in radio-detected NLSy1 galaxies.

Keywords
  1. galaxies
  2. photometry
  3. seyfert-galaxies
  4. infrared-photometry
  5. infrared-sources
Bibliographic source Bibcode
2019MNRAS.483.2362R
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ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/483/2362
Document Object Identifer DOI
doi:10.26093/cds/vizier.74832362

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History

2022-08-11T09:14:24Z
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2022-08-11T09:14:24Z
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2024-08-19T20:15:45Z
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