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Jet-Induced Feedback in the [O III] Lines of Early Evolution Stage Active Galactic Nuclei




List of AuthorsBerton Marco, Järvelä Emilia

PublisherMDPI

Publication year2021

JournalUniverse

Journal name in sourceUNIVERSE

Journal acronymUNIVERSE-BASEL

Article number188

Volume number7

Issue number6

Number of pages29

eISSN2218-1997

DOIhttp://dx.doi.org/10.3390/universe7060188

Self-archived copy’s web addresshttps://research.utu.fi/converis/portal/detail/Publication/66428181


Abstract

It is well known that active galactic nuclei (AGN) show various forms of interaction with their host galaxy, in a number of phenomena generally called AGN feedback. In particular, the relativistic plasma jets launched by a fraction of AGN can strongly affect their environment. We present here a study of the [O III] lambda lambda 4959,5007 lines in a diverse sample of early evolution stage AGN-specifically narrow-line Seyfert 1 galaxies. Radio imaging observations of all of the sources enable a division to jetted and non-jetted sources, and exploiting this we show that the ionized gas properties are significantly influenced by the presence of the jets, as we often find the [O III] lines (blue-)shifted with respect to their restframe wavelength. We also show how the radio morphology and the radio spectral index do not seem to play a role in the origin of the [O III] shifts, thus suggesting that the source inclination is not relevant to the lines displacement. We do not find a strong relation between the [O III] line properties and the bolometric luminosity, suggesting that within our sample radiatively driven outflows do not seem to have a significant contribution to the [O III] line kinematics. We finally suggest that [O III] shifts may be a good proxy to identify the presence of relativistic jets. Additional studies, especially with integral-field spectroscopy, will provide a deeper insight into the relation between jets and their environment in early evolution stage AGN.


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