Title: Consistency study of high- and low-accreting Mg  ii quasars: no significant effect of the Fe  ii to Mg  ii flux ratio on the radius–luminosity relation dispersion

Journal Article · · Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

ABSTRACT We use observations of 66 reverberation-measured Mg ii quasars (QSOs) in the redshift range 0.36 ≤ z ≤ 1.686 – a subset of the 78 QSOs we previously studied that also have $${\cal R}_{\rm {Fe\, {\small II}}}$$ (flux ratio parameter of UV Fe ii to Mg ii that is used as an accretion-rate proxy) measurements – to simultaneously constrain cosmological model parameters and QSO two-parameter and three-parameter radius–luminosity (R–L) relation parameters in six different cosmological models. We find that these QSO R–L relation parameters are independent of the assumed cosmological model and so these QSOs are standardizable through the R–L relations. Also: (1) With the two-parameter R–L relation, we find that the low-$${\cal R}_{\rm {Fe\, {\small II}}}$$ and high-$${\cal R}_{\rm {Fe\, {\small II}}}$$ data subsets obey the same R–L relation within the error bars. (2) Extending the two-parameter R–L relation to a three-parameter one does not result in the hoped-for reduction in the intrinsic dispersion of the R–L relation. (3) Neither of the three-parameter R–L relations provide a significantly better fit to the measurements than does the two-parameter R–L relation. These are promising results for the ongoing development of Mg ii cosmological probes. The first and third of these results differ significantly from those we found elsewhere from analyses of reverberation-measured H β QSOs.

Research Organization:
Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq); Polish Funding Agency National Science Centre; USDOE; USDOE Office of Science (SC)
Grant/Contract Number:
SC0011840
OSTI ID:
1880383
Journal Information:
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Journal Name: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Journal Issue: 3 Vol. 515; ISSN 0035-8711
Publisher:
Oxford University PressCopyright Statement
Country of Publication:
United Kingdom
Language:
English

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