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    Analysis of interacting and isolated quasars

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    The main goal of this study was to determine the effects on equivalent widths (EWs) of some spectral lines produced in the quasars by the presence of surrounding galaxies. To carry this out, a sample of 4663 quasars (QSOs) in the redshift range of 0.20 to 0.40 from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey data release 7 was analyzed. Methods. Three QSO sub-samples were defined, taking into account the projected separations and radial velocity differences with neighboring galaxies. In this way, we utilized two sub-samples of QSOs with strong and weak galaxy interactions, with projected separations smaller than 70 kpc, and between 70 and 140 kpc, respectively, and with radial velocity differences less than 5000 km s-1. These sub-samples were compared with isolated QSOs defined as having greater projected separations and radial velocity differences to the galaxies. Results. From a statistical study of the EWs of relevant spectral lines in the QSOs, we show an increment of the EWs of about 20% in the [OIII]位位4959, 5007 lines and 7% in H伪 for QSOs with stronger galaxy interactions relative to the isolated QSOs. These increments were also observed restricting the sub-samples to velocity differences of 3000 km s-1. These results indicate that some line EWs of QSOs could be marginally influenced by the environment and that they are not affected by the emission of the host galaxy, which was estimated to be around 10% of the total emission. Furthermore, in order to gain a better understanding of the origin of the H伪 emission line, we performed broad and narrow line decomposition in 100 QSOs in the restricted Sint sub-sample and also 100 randomly selected QSOs in the Iso sub-sample. When these QSOs were compared, the narrow component remained constant whereas the broad component was incremented. Our results, which reveal slight differences in EWs of some emission lines, suggest that galaxy interactions with QSOs may affect the QSO activity.Fil: Donoso Navea, Laura Gema. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Cient铆ficas y T茅cnicas. Centro Cient铆fico Tecnol贸gico Conicet - C贸rdoba. Instituto de Astronom铆a Te贸rica y Experimental. Universidad Nacional de C贸rdoba. Observatorio Astron贸mico de C贸rdoba. Instituto de Astronom铆a Te贸rica y Experimental; ArgentinaFil: Alonso, Maria Victoria. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Cient铆ficas y T茅cnicas. Centro Cient铆fico Tecnol贸gico Conicet - C贸rdoba. Instituto de Astronom铆a Te贸rica y Experimental. Universidad Nacional de C贸rdoba. Observatorio Astron贸mico de C贸rdoba. Instituto de Astronom铆a Te贸rica y Experimental; ArgentinaFil: Garcia Lambas, Diego Rodolfo. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Cient铆ficas y T茅cnicas. Centro Cient铆fico Tecnol贸gico Conicet - C贸rdoba. Instituto de Astronom铆a Te贸rica y Experimental. Universidad Nacional de C贸rdoba. Observatorio Astron贸mico de C贸rdoba. Instituto de Astronom铆a Te贸rica y Experimental; ArgentinaFil: Coldwell Lloveras, Georgina Vanesa. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Cient铆ficas y T茅cnicas. Centro Cient铆fico Tecnol贸gico Conicet - C贸rdoba. Instituto de Astronom铆a Te贸rica y Experimental. Universidad Nacional de C贸rdoba. Observatorio Astron贸mico de C贸rdoba. Instituto de Astronom铆a Te贸rica y Experimental; ArgentinaFil: Schmidt, Eduardo Osvaldo. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Cient铆ficas y T茅cnicas. Centro Cient铆fico Tecnol贸gico Conicet - C贸rdoba. Instituto de Astronom铆a Te贸rica y Experimental. Universidad Nacional de C贸rdoba. Observatorio Astron贸mico de C贸rdoba. Instituto de Astronom铆a Te贸rica y Experimental; ArgentinaFil: Oio, Gabriel Andr茅s. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Cient铆ficas y T茅cnicas. Centro Cient铆fico Tecnol贸gico Conicet - C贸rdoba. Instituto de Astronom铆a Te贸rica y Experimental. Universidad Nacional de C贸rdoba. Observatorio Astron贸mico de C贸rdoba. Instituto de Astronom铆a Te贸rica y Experimental; Argentin

    High-energy gamma-ray sources in the VVV survey - I. The blazars

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    There is a lack of blazar detections in the galactic plane area, even in the most recent blazar catalogues, mainly due to incompleteness resulting from interstellar dust and stellar contamination of our Galaxy. The VISTA Variables in the Via L谩ctea survey (VVV) aims to map variable sources towards the galactic plane in the near-infrared (IR). There are three catalogued and one candidate blazars in the VVV area, which are also detected by Fermi-LAT in the gamma-ray band and by the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) at mid-IR wavelengths. We study the physical properties of these blazars in order to use them as a reference that would allow us to find counterparts of other unidentified gamma-ray sources in the future. All four sources have VVV counterparts, and two of them, 5BZUJ1731-3003 and 5BZQJ1802-3940 are also associated with WISE sources. They present very different properties compared with stellar or extragalactic objects. Their VVV Ks light curves show significant variability, and are characterized using a machine learning analysis. In particular, the blazar 5BZQJ1802-3940, a flat spectrum radio quasar, exhibits the smallest uncertainties in the Fermi-LAT position and it is a bright WISE source. Its near-IR properties in the colour- magnitude and colour-colour diagrams are very different from the stars and extragalactic objects in the field. It has the highest amplitude in the Ks differential light curve and fractional variability amplitude. This pilot study will allow us to search for and identify other blazars hidden behind the Galactic plane using the VVV survey data base.Fil: Pichel, Ana Carolina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Cient铆ficas y T茅cnicas. Oficina de Coordinaci贸n Administrativa Ciudad Universitaria. Instituto de Astronom铆a y F铆sica del Espacio. - Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales. Instituto de Astronom铆a y F铆sica del Espacio; ArgentinaFil: Donoso Navea, Laura Gema. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Cient铆ficas y T茅cnicas. Centro Cient铆fico Tecnol贸gico Conicet - C贸rdoba. Instituto de Astronom铆a Te贸rica y Experimental. Universidad Nacional de C贸rdoba. Observatorio Astron贸mico de C贸rdoba. Instituto de Astronom铆a Te贸rica y Experimental; ArgentinaFil: Baravalle, Laura Daniela. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Cient铆ficas y T茅cnicas. Centro Cient铆fico Tecnol贸gico Conicet - C贸rdoba. Instituto de Astronom铆a Te贸rica y Experimental. Universidad Nacional de C贸rdoba. Observatorio Astron贸mico de C贸rdoba. Instituto de Astronom铆a Te贸rica y Experimental; ArgentinaFil: Alonso, Maria Victoria. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Cient铆ficas y T茅cnicas. Centro Cient铆fico Tecnol贸gico Conicet - C贸rdoba. Instituto de Astronom铆a Te贸rica y Experimental. Universidad Nacional de C贸rdoba. Observatorio Astron贸mico de C贸rdoba. Instituto de Astronom铆a Te贸rica y Experimental; ArgentinaFil: Rovero, Adrian Carlos. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Cient铆ficas y T茅cnicas. Oficina de Coordinaci贸n Administrativa Ciudad Universitaria. Instituto de Astronom铆a y F铆sica del Espacio(i); ArgentinaFil: Beam铆n, J. C.. Universidad de Chile; ChileFil: Minniti, Dante. Universidad de Chile; ChileFil: Cabral, Juan Bautista. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Cient铆ficas y T茅cnicas. Centro Cient铆fico Tecnol贸gico Conicet - C贸rdoba. Instituto de Astronom铆a Te贸rica y Experimental. Universidad Nacional de C贸rdoba. Observatorio Astron贸mico de C贸rdoba. Instituto de Astronom铆a Te贸rica y Experimental; Argentina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Cient铆ficas y T茅cnicas. Centro Cient铆fico Tecnol贸gico Conicet - Rosario. Centro Internacional Franco Argentino de Ciencias de la Informaci贸n y de Sistemas. Universidad Nacional de Rosario. Centro Internacional Franco Argentino de Ciencias de la Informaci贸n y de Sistemas; ArgentinaFil: S谩nchez, Bruno Orlando. University of Duke; Estados UnidosFil: Coldwell Lloveras, Georgina Vanesa. Universidad Nacional de San Juan. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas, F铆sicas y Naturales. Departamento de Geof铆sica y Astronom铆a; Argentina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Cient铆ficas y T茅cnicas; ArgentinaFil: Masetti, Nicola. Universidad Andr茅s Bello; Chil
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