The Correlation of Narrow Line Emission and X-ray Luminosity in Active Galactic Nuclei

Abstract

We combine emission line and X-ray luminosities for 45 sources from the Chandra Deep Field South (CDF-S), and seven HELLAS sources, to obtain a new sample of 52 X-ray selected type-II active galactic nuclei (AGNs). Eighteen of our sources are very luminous with a typical, absorption-corrected 2-10 keV luminosity of few 10^{44} erg/sec (type-II QSOs). We compare the emission line properties of the new sources with emission line and X-ray luminosities of known low redshift, mostly lower luminosity AGNs by using a composite spectrum. We find that ${\mathrm{L}}_{[\mathrm{OIII}]}$/${\mathrm{L}}_{2-10}$ and ${\mathrm{L}}_{[\mathrm{OII}]}$/${\mathrm{L}}_{2-10}$ decrease with L(2-10 keV) such that ${\mathrm{L}}_{[\mathrm{OIII}]}/{\mathrm{L}}_{2-10}\propto {{\mathrm{L}}_{2-10}}^{-0.42}$. The trend was already evident, yet neglected in past low redshift samples. This lead to erroneous calibration of the line-to-X-ray luminosity in earlier AGN samples. The analysis of several type-I samples shows the same trend with a similar slope but a median ${\mathrm{L}}_{[\mathrm{OIII}]}$/${\mathrm{L}}_{2-10}$ which is larger by a factor of about two compared with optically selected type-II samples. We interpret this shift as due to additional reddening in type-II sources and comment in general on the very large extinction in many type-II objects and the significantly smaller average reddening of the SDSS type-II AGNs. The decrease of ${\mathrm{L}}_{[\mathrm{OIII}]}$/${\mathrm{L}}_{2-10}$ with L(2--10 keV) is large enough to suggest that a significant fraction of high luminosity high redshift type-II AGNs have very weak emission lines that may have escaped detection in large samples. A related decrease of EW([OIII]) with optical continuum luminosity is demonstrated by an analysis of 12,000 type-I SDSS AGNs.

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