Journal article

Lyα emission-line reconstruction for high-z QSOs

B Greig, A Mesinger, ID McGreer, S Gallerani, Z Haiman

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society | OXFORD UNIV PRESS | Published : 2017

Abstract

We introduce an intrinsic Lyα emission-line profile reconstruction method for high-z quasars (QSOs). This approach utilises a covariance matrix of emission-line properties obtained from a large, moderate-z (2 ≤ z ≤ 2.5), high signal to noise (S/N > 15) sample of BOSS QSOs. For each QSO, we complete a Monte Carlo Markov Chain fitting of the continuum and emission-line properties and perform a visual quality assessment to construct a large data base of robustly fit spectra. With this data set, we construct a covariance matrix to describe the correlations between the high-ionization emission lines Lyα, C IV, Si IV +O IV] and C III], and find it to be well approximated by an N-dimensional Gaussi..

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Grants

Awarded by National Science Foundation


Funding Acknowledgements

We thank the anonymous referee for their helpful suggestions. AM and BG acknowledge funding support from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (grant agreement No 638809 - AIDA - PI: AM). ZH is supported by NASA grant NNX15AB19G. Funding for SDSS-III has been provided by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the Participating Institutions, the National Science Foundation and the US Department of Energy Office of Science. The SDSS-III web site is http://www.sdss3.org/. SDSS-III is managed by the Astrophysical Research Consortium for the Participating Institutions of the SDSS-III Collaboration including the University of Arizona, the Brazilian Participation Group, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Carnegie Mellon University, University of Florida, the French Participation Group, the German Participation Group, Harvard University, the Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias, the Michigan State/Notre Dame/JINA Participation Group, Johns Hopkins University, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics, Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics, New Mexico State University, New York University, Ohio State University, Pennsylvania State University, University of Portsmouth, Princeton University, the Spanish Participation Group, University of Tokyo, University of Utah, Vanderbilt University, University of Virginia, University of Washington and Yale University.