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| Paper: |
The Nuclear Region of Blazar-like Objects: Stellar Population Content and Emission-line Spectra |
| Volume: |
299, High Energy Blazar Astronomy |
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289 |
| Authors: |
Goncalves, A.C.; Roos, M.S. |
| Abstract: |
We have examined the spectroscopic properties of a sample of 19 optically bright, low luminosity core-dominated radio sources; this sample was expected to contain a high fraction of objects observed at small angles to the line-of-sight (blazar-like objects). Our study focus on the properties — stellar populations and optical emission-line spectra — of such low luminosity nuclei. Stellar population synthesis shows that the nuclear populations are composed, in a general way, of old stars of solar metallicity or lower; the dust content is weak. After substraction of the stellar contribution, we are left with a set of nuclear emission-line spectra; their analysis shows that most of the objects harbour a Low Ionization Nuclear Emission Region (or LINER), whose contribution was highly diluted by the host galaxy starlight. Such a low ionization spectrum is in agreement with the black hole mass values and sub-Eddington accretion rates published for some BL Lacs; also, the stellar populations derived in
this study are in agreement with those usually found in LINERs. |
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