1987ApJ. . .321. .233E The AstrophysicalJournal,321:233-250,19S7October1 © 1987.TheAmericanAstronomicalSociety.Allrightsreserved.PrintedinU.S.A. near-infrared wavelengths(A<10/mi;cf.Rieke1978,here- first far-infrareddetectionsofasignificantnumberactive after R78),theInfraredAstronomicalSatellite(IRAS)all-sky survey at12,25,60,and100/mionlyrecentlyprovidedthe galactic nuclei(AGNs).EdelsonandMalkan(1986,hereafter tral energydistributionsofaheterogeneoussample of EM) usedIRAS,IUE,andground-baseddatatostudyspec- 29 AGNsbetween0.1and100/mi.Miley,Neugebauer, and . Neugebaueretal.(1986)reportedIRASobservations wavelength), andEdelson(1986,hereafterE86)analyzedIRAS Soifer (1985)reportedthatfar-infraredcolorsof120active (1986), ImpeyandNeugebauer(1987),othershavestudied of 179quasars(ofwhich74weredetectedinatleastoneIRAS observations ofthebrightestPG/BQSquasars.Landauet al. of itstotalenergyatinfraredwavelengths. Insomecases,thisis the broad-bandpropertiesofblazars. the resultofpresence dust.Thedustcanabsorband by theUniversityofHawaiiundercontract totheNationalAeronauticsand Space Administration. 2 1 Although Seyfertgalaxieshavebeenstudiedextensivelyat Virtually everyknownSeyfertgalaxyemitsalargefraction VisitingAstronomerattheInfrared TelescopeFacility,whichisoperated PresidentialYoungInvestigator. Thus, thenear-andmid-infraredemissionfrommostSeyfert1galaxiesappearstobedominatedbynon- thermal radiation,althoughdustradiationisclearlyimportantforothers. is predominantlythermalinSeyfert2galaxiesandnonthermalquasars.Foropticallyselected1 spectra ofopticallyselectedSeyfert2galaxiesaresteep(a._=-1.56),insharpcontrastto of 48Seyfertgalaxies.Mosthavecompleteinfrareddetections,butnoneweredetectedat1.3mm.The selected quasars,whichhaveflatinfraredspectra(â_=—1.09).Thissuggeststhattheemission galaxies, a._=-1.15,and-70%haveflatspectrasimilartoquasarsunlikeSeyfert2galaxies. dominated byunreprocessedradiationfromasynchrotronself-absorbedsourceoftheorderlight-dayin shortward of100/un.Fortherelativelydust-freeSeyfert1galaxies,thissuggeststhatinfraredemissionis size, aboutthesamesizeashypothesizedaccretiondisks.ForSeyfert2galaxiesandotherdusty In manyoftheobjectswithundetectedturnovers,emissionfromcooldustingalacticdiskappearsto objects, itimpliesminimumdusttemperaturesof35-65K,significantlywarmerthaninnormalgalaxies. mask theturnover.Thisstrong“coolexcess,”whichdominates60-100/miemissionfromtheseobjects,is Subject headings:galaxies:Seyfert—infrared:spectraquasarsradiationmechanisms correlated withthe11/misourcesize,suggestingthatSeyfertnucleitendtoresideingalaxiesundergoing 225/an 2 25Aim strong starformation. 225/im © American Astronomical Society • Provided by the NASA Astrophysics Data System Observations between1.2jumand1.3mmarepresentedforanunbiased,spectroscopicallyselectedsample Half oftheobjectsdetectedatthreeormoreIRASwavelengthshavefar-infraredspectrawhichturnover BROAD-BAND PROPERTIESOFTHECfASEYFERTGALAXIES.II.INFRAREDTO I. INTRODUCTION radio sources:galaxies—spectrophotometry Owens ValleyRadioObservatory,CaliforniaInstituteofTechnology Department ofAstronomy,UniversityCalifornia,LosAngeles Received 1986November14;accepted1987March18 Steward Observatory,UniversityofArizona MILLIMETER PROPERTIES 1,2 M. A.Malkan R. A.Edelson ABSTRACT G. H.Rieke AND a thermally reradiateasignificantportionoftheopticaland ward atshorterwavelengths,owingtotheWiencutoff*below emission producesaverysteepspectrumwhichcurvesdown- continuum(RiekeandLebofsky1979).Thethermal the peakwavelengthofemissionfromhottestsurviving dust grains.Thermalfar-infraredemissionisalsofrequently associated withdustreddeningofthenuclearemissionlines steepness oftheinfraredspectraandinternalreddening and and nonstellarcontinuum.EMfoundcorrelationsbetween other dustindicators. continua bynonthermalprocesses.Inthecaseofviolentlyvari- the infraredandhighpolarizationconclusivelydemonstrate able quasarsandBLLacertaeobjects,therapidvariability in infrared spectra(ImpeyandNeugebauer1987).Inquasars and this (AngelandStockman1980).Theyalsotendtohave flat infrared (andoptical)emissionislessdirect,sincethecontin- luminous, unreddenedSeyfert1nuclei,thecasefornonthermal uum isneitherhighlypolarizednorviolentlyvariable. The strongest indicationisthe relatively flatshapeofthefar- infrared toopticalcontinuum, whichiswelldescribedbya power lawwitha>—1.3(F ocv,EM).Opticallyselected which wereidentifiedaspredominantly nonthermalemission. quasars haveflatinfraredspectra (â_^=—1.09E86), The correlationfoundbetween the3.5gmand2keVX-ray v 2i25 However, someactivegalacticnucleiproducetheirinfrared 1987ApJ. . .321. .233E uum emissionisdiscussedin§III,andthefar-infrared cussed inthenextsection.Thenatureofinfraredcontin- was incorrectlyclassifiedasaSeyfert2galaxyinPaperI). also describedtheirradioproperties.(Oneobject,NGC3227, discussed indetailEdelson(1987,hereafterPaperI),which tion effectsduetodustcontent.Theselectionofthesampleis by ultravioletexcess,thissamplehasnoknownbiasesorselec- and studyatotherwavelengthsaswell.Unlikeobjectsselected optical brightness,theseobjectsarerelativelyeasytodetect contains 26type1and222Seyfertgalaxiesselectedby optical spectroscopy(HuchraandBerg1987).Becauseoftheir deduce thepropertiesofclassasawhole.TheCfAsample well-defined, unbiased,spectroscopicallyselectedsample—to spectral energydistributionsoftheCfASeyfertgalaxies—a problem wasavoidedbyexaminingtheinfraredtomillimeter to biassamplesagainststronginfraredemitters(R78).This example, selectionbyultravioletexcess(suchasthatused mechanisms. PreviousAGNstudieshavebeenbiasedbythe Markarian 1972andSchmidtGreen1983)hasbeenshown selection techniquesusedtoconstructtheirsamples.For are studiedtodeterminetheimportanceofdifferentemission unbiased, spectroscopicallyselectedsampleofSeyfertgalaxies emission fromtheseobjectsisnonthermalinorigin(Malkan galaxies) suggeststhatthesameprocessisresponsibleforemis- sion atbothwavelengths,implyingthatthelowerfrequency flux ofquasarsandSeyfert1galaxies(butnot2 1984). 234 The near-infrared,IRAS,andmillimeter-wavedataaredis- In thispaper,theinfraredpropertiesofacomplete, © American Astronomical Society • Provided by the NASA Astrophysics Data System NGC 7682 Mkn 533 2237+07 NGC 5940 NGC 5929 1614+35 Mkn 686 IC 4397 NGC 5674 Mkn 461 NGC 5273 Mkn 266 NGC 5252 Mkn 789 NGC 5033 NGC 4388 1335+39 Mkn 766 NGC 4235 NGC 3982 Mkn 744 NGC 3362 NGC 3079 Mkn 1243 NGC 1144 0152+06 1058+45 Mkn 573 Mkn 993 0048+29 Mkn 334 a Source Mkn817hasameasured10pmflux densityofSio.e=220+38mJy. 11.0 ± 10.1 ± 11.3 ± 11.1 ±0.8 15.7 ± 12.9 14.6 ± 44.1 ± 11.6 ± 30.8 ± 23.1 ± 21.1 ± 31.0 ± 19.8 ± 22.0 ± 12.2 ± 13.8 ± 11.1 ±1.114.51.415.61.5 14.3 ±0.720.81.027.51.4 3.6 ± 4.4 ± 6.9 4.0 ± 7.7 ± 5.6 ± 9.2 ± 5.8 ± 5.8 ± 6.0 ± Sl.2fim (mJy) 0.5 0.6 0.2 1.1 0.3 0.6 0.8 1.3 0.5 0.5 1.0 0.5 3.5 1.0 2.0 2.0 2.0 0.9 2.0 0.5 2.2 0.6 2.4 0.4 2.0 0.6 EDELSON, MALKAN,ANDRIEKE CfA SeyfertGalaxyNear-InfraredData 14.9 ± 15.6 ± 17.8 ± 15.7 ± 25.0 ± 19.5 ± 17.4 ± 61.6 ± 48.5 ± 12.0 ± 42.6 ± 35.4 ± 25.9 ±2.0 71.3 ± 29.4 ± 29.5 ± 19.0 ± 6.8 ± 6.8 ± 7.4 ± 8.8 ± 8.1 ± 7.8 ± 6.8 ± 7.4 ± 8.0 ± (mJy) 0.8 0.9 1.4 0.7 0.5 0.5 1.0 1.4 1.0 1.5 0.6 0.6 1.0 1.0 5.0 2.5 3.0 3.0 4.0 0.6 0.7 3.0 0.5 3.0 0.7 24.2 : 19.4 : 15.8 23.1 16.1 13.4 47.8 46.9 16.1 50.1 29.9 27.8 12.4 91.9 ± 31.5 ± 26.3 ± 16.0 ± 9.5 ±0.9 6.9 : 8.7 : 6.3 8.7 7.9 7.3 5.2 ± 7.9 ± 7.4 ± TABLE 1 ^2.2nm (mJy) ± 1.0 2.4 0.7 0.6 1.0 0.5 0.9 0.8 1.0 0.9 0.6 1.5 0.5 3.0 2.5 4.0 2.4 2.4 0.5 5.0 0.8 3.6 1.2 0.5 2.4 0.8 to providenear-infrareddataforatotalof44objects(95%), Devereux, Becklin,andScoville1987;Neugebaueretal1987), with thoseavailableintheliterature(R78;Rudy,LeVan,and Rodriguez Espinosa1982;Cruz-GonzalesandHuchra1984; also madeatL(3.5/mi)or(3.6/mi),and12objectswere infrared (1.1—2.2/mi).Measurementsof13brightobjectswere observed atN(10.6/mi).Theseobservationswerecombined etry wasobtainedfor29oftheSeyfertgalaxiesinnear- Campins, Rieke,andLebofsky(1985).Newinfraredphotom- (2.2 /mi)wereused,withabsolutefluxcalibrationsfrom The usualphotometricbands,J(1.2/un),JT(1.6/mi),andK Catalina 61inch(1.55m)reflectorandtheIRTF3mtelescope. single-element InSbdetectorsontheStewardObservatory nosity distanceorforevolution. corrections weremadeforcosmologicaleffectsinthelumi- is assumed.Asthelargestredshiftinthissamplez=0.06,no given intheAppendix. six SeyfertgalaxieswhichwerenotincludedinPaperIare of themajorresultsthispaperisgivenin§VII.Positions investigated in§V,andthe60fiminfraredluminosityfunction of Seyfertgalaxiesisderivedanddiscussedin§VI.Asummary red propertiesandthosederivedatotherwavelengthsare emission arediscussedin§IV.Therelationshipbetweeninfra- turnover andtherelationbetweenfar-infraredmillimeter 1- Near-infrared photometrywasobtainedwithstandard < 15 Throughout thispaper,avalueofH=75kms"Mpc 0 : 15 46 ± 16 ± 43 ± 16 ± 74 ± 22 +2 31+3 73+6 23 ± 10 ± $3.5 (im (mJy) 7 ± 3 <144 < 53 < 32 325 ± 288 ±28 210 ±20 158 ±34 167 ±15 82 ±12 SlQ.6(xm 18+4 (mJy) a) Near-InfraredData 25 15 Mar84 15 Mar84 04 Mar85 04 Mar85 04 Mar85 04 Mar85 04 Mar85 04 Mar85 13 Sep84 15 Apr84 04 Mar85 II. DATA 04 Mar85 16 Apr84 14 Apr84 15 Apr84 14 Apr84 15 Mar84 21 Dec86 26 Sep85 16 Sep84 13 Sep84 Mar 86 Mar 86 Mar 86 Mar 86 Mar 86 Mar 86 Mar 86 Date Vol. 321 1987ApJ. . .321. .233E No. 1,1987 measurements at3.5/¿mfor28objects(58%),and10.6/mi data for29objects(60%). galaxies. Sourcenamesarepresentedincolumn(1).Fluxden- Table 1weremeasuredwith8"5apertures.Thustheyrefer tains thedateofJ,if,andKobservations.Severalrepeated are presentedincolumns(2)-(6),respectively.Column(7)con- light, andtherewasoftensignificantGalacticlightoutsidethe primarily tothenucleus.InlessluminousSeyfertgalaxies, observations agreedtowithinabout10%.Thefluxeslistedin sities anduncertaintiesfortheJ,H,K,L,Nmeasurements these fluxesalsoincludeasubstantialcontributionfromstar- least oncebyIRAS.Twoobjects(NGC3362andMrk774)lay aperture. Table 1givesthenewnear-infrareddataforCfASeyfert Forty-six ofthe48CfASeyfertgalaxieswereobservedat © American Astronomical Society • Provided by the NASA Astrophysics Data System b) IRASData I Zw1 0048+29 Mkn 334 Mkn 335 NGC 4051 NGC 3982 Mkn 744 NGC 3516 0152+06 Mkn 573 Mkn 993 NGC 5033 Mkn 231 NGC 4388 Mkn 205 Mkn 766 NGC 4235 NGC 4151 NGC 3362 NGC 3227 NGC 3079 Mkn 1243 NGC 1144 NGC 1068 Mkn 590 NGC 5252 Mkn 789 IC 4397 Mkn 266 1058+45 Mkn 279 Mkn 461 NGC 5273 Mkn 270 NGC 5674 NGC 5548 1335+39 Mkn 817 Mkn 686 NGC 5929 Mkn 841 2237+07 NGC 5940 NGC 7682 Mkn 530 NGC 7469 Mkn 533 1614+35 Source S^m(mJy)^25^mSQmSioo/m»¿>1.2 0(i INFRARED PROPERTIESOFSEYFERTGALAXIES < 70 < 121 < 146 < 119 < 85 < 109 < 82 < 80 C 103 38300 ±2300 2080 1820 1000 1250 ± 1300 341 ± 212 ± 431 457 104 540 ± 780 828 384 562 ± 307 ± 306 186 ± 198 ± 130 169 ± 343 132 357 199 134 360 164 128 720 198 124 140 180 93 CfA SeyfertGalaxyFar-InfraredandMillimeterData ± 101 104 109 130 42 46 44 44 34 38 34 47 78 40 60 29 35 32 75 25 34 38 37 40 37 32 31 32 30 33 42 42 30 < 102 < 144 < 174 < 160 < 167 < 78 < 80 < 72 88600 ±5210 4600 2040 ±122 8560 3370 1260 ± 1070 ± 1430 1420 1750 ±175 1240 5500 ±550 1570 1930 ±231 420 ± 806 ± 755 680 ±52 247 ± 610 995 922 ± 976 138 ± 242 453 289 198 ± 273 765 168 151 392 112 191 ±56 80 ! ± : ± ' ± : ± ± 70 ± 38 ± ± ± ± 230 514 214 126 142 106 22 41 99 76 44 73 89 84 57 34 38 62 27 44 60 37 45 70 89 32 52 TABLE 2 186000 ±18600 42400 ± 33300 ± 10700 ± 13600 ± 26700 ± 4310 ± 4010 ± 2130 ± 6720 ± 8160 ± 6730 ± 5400 ±288 8030 ± 3720 ± 7320 ± 1200 ± 1840 ±107 1070 ± 2340 ± 9450 ± 1680 ± 1200 ± 1630 ± 1110 ± 5470 ± 414 ± 435 ± 467 ± 260 ± 931 ± 290 ± 374 ± 425 ± 631 ±60 328 ± 443 ± 991 ± 476 ± 605 ± 117 ± 481 ± 794 ± 900 ± 856 ± in the~2%ofskywhichIRASdidnotobserve.One 46 objectsobserved(NGC7682)laywithin4'ofa10Jysource, lengths. and couldnotbedetectedowingtostrongconfusion.Allofthe remaining 45objectsweredetectedwithIRAS,and32ofthe46 were measuredignoringallobservationsinwhichasourcewas tabulated incolumns(2)-(5).Forobjectsbrighterthan0.5Jyat source namesaregiveninthefirstcolumn.Thefluxdensities objects observed(70%)weredetectedinallfourIRASwave- mined fromsourceextractionsperformedonco-addedsurvey not detected,objectswithlowsignal-to-noiseratiostendto and errorsat12,25,60,100/mi,or3<7upperlimits,are IRAS fluxesforobjectsfainterthan0.5Jyat12/miweredeter- appear brighterthantheyactuallyare.Forthisreason,all Catalog (1985).SincetheIRASPointSourcefluxes 12 /mi,photometrywastakenfromtheIRASPointSource Far-infrared fluxesfromIRASarepresentedinTable2.The 3330 5950 1310 1070 3740 232 298 242 336 816 683 784 221 396 491 110 104 766 134 49 49 46 80 38 60 61 53 55 93 87 39 56 80 50 50 79 63 87 76 50 79 239000 ±23900 <323 < 350 < 257 42400 ± 20400 ± 30100 ± 87600 ± 17300 ± 15200 ± 16900 ± 11300 ± 10400 ± 34400 ± 12000 ± 4660 ± 2430 ± 5060 ± 8600 ± 2160 ± 2630 ± 5330 ± 1990 ± 2030 ± 1240 ± 1270 ± 1210 ± 3130 ± 1310 ± 1530 ± 1020 ± 1420 ± 2260 ± 3560 ± 1970 ± 1800 ± 2140 ± 8190 ± 1800 ± 1820 ± 1270 ± 1790 ± 736 ± 750 ± 456 ± 4360 3010 2440 2860 2370 8760 1550 1150 1090 6190 1450 1220 494 430 243 250 571 532 300 239 248 225 136 168 211 345 164 183 174 173 242 382 130 195 162 208 214 106 205 254 186 1350 1281 1431 1230 1185 1131 1041 1548 1296 1473 1269 1098 1050 (mJy) 462 468 465 852 699 933 456 834 930 342 318 537 744 495 309 591 915 672 816 900 615 738 564 615 306 735 765 801 762 822 903 585 768 303 507 235 1987ApJ. . .321. .233E an aan with “Q”orundeterminedspectra andsteepfar-infraredspec- (dusty orsteep)incolumn(6) (see§IIIc).Inaddition,sources spectra areclassifiedwitha“Q” (quasar-likeorflat)“D” the spectralindices«2.2-25^ dao„,theinfrared greater thanthisvaluearelabeled witha“C.”Onthebasisof unity arelabeledwitha“E” in column(5),whilethosewithR column (4)(see§IIW).SourceswithRmorethan3abelow measure ofthedegreeresolutionat~11/un)ispresented in marked withan“R.”Thecompactnessparameter(R, a a “B”incolumn(3),whilethosewithweakexcesses are mediate types(i.e.,Seyfert1.5galaxies)areclassifiedastype 1. Using slitspectroscopyoftheinner10"(EdelsonandWahl 12 Gm Seyfert galaxytype,takenfromHuchraandBerg(1987).Inter- Column (1)containsthesourcename,andcolumn(2) the 1/2 1987), sourceswithstrongultravioletexcessesaredenoted are presentedincolumns(2)-(6),respectively. 2.2-25 /xm?12-60,ini>5-60|imJ60-100/ím>d^iOO mm Column (1)containsthesourcename,andspectralindices tral indiceshavebeencalculatedandtabulatedinTable3. less luminousAGNshaveabumpinthenear-infrareddueto spectra. frequency turnoverisdetectableinabouthalfoftheinfrared starlight whichpeaksnear~1.5/mi.Afar-infraredlow- steep (a^-2,asinMrk533andNGC1968)toflat> wide varietyofspectralshapesandfeaturesareseeninFigure 1. Theoverallspectralenergydistributionsrangefromvery —0.7, asinMrk335and590).Thespectraofmanythe column (6)ofTable2. were detectedat1.3mm.The3aupperlimitsarelistedin of précipitablewatervaporalongthelinesight.Nosources time, thetimeofdayanobjectwasobserved,andamount The actualerrorswereastrongfunctionoftheintegration about 15minutes,yieldingtypical1aerrorsof~200mJy. scope hada30"beamwidth,andthepointingwasaccurateto effective noise-equivalentfluxdensityof-5Jys.Thetele- sideband). Theapertureefficiencywasabout15%,givingan typical systemtemperatureof~325Konthesky(double NRAO-Kitt Peak12mtelescopeon1984June9-16.The QMC-Oregon 0.3Kmillimeterbolometerwasusedwitha IRAS fluxobservedfromthisinteractingsystem.Theseobjects ~ 10".Mostsourceswereobservedforintegrationtimesof only 90"fromNGC5930,whichappearstoemitmostofthe line spectrum(KollatschnyandFricke1984).NGC5929is are excludedfromfurtheranalysis. nucleus, whilethecompanionhasalow-ionizationemission- (separation9").OneofthegalaxieshasaSeyfert2 a nearbyspiralcompanion.Mrk266isactuallyclosebinary appears extendedintheIRASbeambecauseitisonly41"from and 60¿zm15%at100jum. overall calibrationuncertaintyisestimatedtobe10%at12,25, because theseobjectshadpower-lawslopesneara=-1.The data. NospectralcorrectionstotheIRASdatawerenecessary, 236 Table 4containsparametersderivedfortheseobjects. To quantifythefollowingdiscussionofspectralshapes,spec- Figure 1containsvFplotsfortheCfASeyfertgalaxies.A v The CfASeyfertgalaxieswereobservedat1.3mmwiththe The infraredfluxesofthreeobjectsareconfused.Mrk279 © American Astronomical Society • Provided by the NASA Astrophysics Data System III. THEINFRAREDCONTINUUMEMISSION c) MillimeterData a) Introduction EDELSON, MALKAN,ANDRIEKE a and causes thespectrumtocurve downward steeplyfromthemid- to thenear-infrared. ^ range oftemperatures(EM). The high-frequencyWiencutoff by thesuperpositionofthermal emissionfromdustgrainsata “ dusty”anddenotedbyaD.” denoted bya“Q”inTable4andFigure2.Anyspectrumwith their indexsteeperthanthese boundary valuesisdesignatedas i2—óo/tm ^-1.25isdesignatedas“quasar-like,”and is § Ilia,anyinfraredspectrumwith«2.2-25^^-1.37 and selected quasarshavea._>-1.37and > segregates Seyfert2galaxiesfromquasars.Alloftheoptically distribution ofa_,evenstronger. «2.2—25 ftm^—1.37anda_>—1.25,whichcompletely removal ofthiscomponentwouldmakethedifferencein the ponents at2.2pmthanSeyfert1galaxies(see§Illb). The tively. Seyfert2galaxiestendtohavestrongerstellarcom- and type2Seyfertgalaxiesatthe99%97%levels,respec- «2.2-25 „m«12-60^distributeddifferentlyfortype1 parameter indifferenttypesofobjects(Siegel1956)showsthat -1.25, unlikeanyoftheSeyfert2galaxies.Asdiscussed in ^12—60 pm1.55+0.36.ThenonparametricKolmogorov- Smirnov (K-S)testfordifferencesinthedistributionofasingle 225/im160|im 2 25(m the Seyfert2galaxies,ä_=-1.56±0.34and «2.2—25„m =-1.15±0.29andôi_-1.080.44.For and â_,=—0.69+0.44.ForSeyfert1galaxies, 1260iim ^2.2—25 pm1.09+0.16(rmsscatterforindividualobjects) For bright,opticallyselectedquasars,E86foundthat object whichliesonthedottedlinehasa,, circles, andbrightPGquasars(takenfromE86)bystars.An Seyfert 1galaxiesaredenotedbytriangles,2 diagram. Figure2isaplotof._versus„ 2 5fim 1260lim 1260(m galaxies usuallyhavesteeper,curvedspectra. fitted byasimplepowerlaw.AscanbeseeninFigure1,Seyfert 225flm160m warm dustisasteep,curvedspectrum.EMfoundthatobjects usually hadsteepinfraredspectra(a«-2),whicharenotwell with largeinternalreddeningsandotherdustindicators sion tendstoproduceflat,smoothspectra.Thesignatureof 1 galaxiestendtohaveflat,power-lawspectra,whileSeyfert2 nucleus haveverydifferentspectralshapes.Nonthermalemis- systematic studyofthisfeaturewiththesedata. lack ofuniformcoveragebetween3.5and10/anpreventsa detectable insomespectra,asdiscussedbyEM.However,the fifth component,abroadbumpcenterednear5/an,isclearly component withasharplong-wavelengthcutoffnear80/an.A the nucleus);and(4)arelativelyflatnonthermalpower-law lying galaxy;(3)emissionfromwarmdust(probablycloseto far-infrared emissionfromcooldustinthediskofunder- starlight, whichisonlyimportantshortwardof3.5/an;(2) no companionshavean“N”(see§Vb). interacting objectshavean“I”incolumn(8),whilethosewith axies canbeexplainedasamixtureoffourcomponents:(1) (7) (see§IIIc).OnthebasisofDahari’s(1985)observations, flux duetonuclearnonstellaremissionarepresentedincolumn “(D)” appendedtothisclassification.Estimatesofthe2.2/an 1.2 /an-1.3mmspectralenergydistributionsofSeyfertgal- tral indices(a_<-Uoraioo^j,,,,,,^—2.0)havea The steepinfraredspectraof Seyfert 2galaxiesareproduced 2560/im The dashedlineinFigure2delineatesaregionwith This differencecanbeseenmosteasilyinacolor-color Thermal dustemissionandnonthermalfromthe As discussedinEM,themajorfeaturesofobserved b) InfraredSpectralShape 1987ApJ. . .321. .233E except fortheSeyfert2galaxies. objects atthetop.DataareplottedaslogvFvs.v,soahorizontalline would havea=—1(i.e.,equalpowerperoctaveoffrequency).Forthepurposedisplay sigma errorbarsareshown,andafactor of2isshownatthelowerleftforscale.Anarbitraryscalingconstant addedtothedatafordisplaypurposes,(b)Sameas(a) only, theIRASdataaregrayshifted by thecompactnessparameter{R),discussedin§IIIc,toaccountfor effectsofemissionfromtheunderlyinggalaxy.One v Fig. 1.—(a)PlotsofvFat1-100/zmfortheCfASeyfert1galaxies.The objectsarepresentedinapproximateorderoftheultravioletexcess,withbluest v © American Astronomical Society • Provided by the NASA Astrophysics Data System Frequency (Hz) Frequency (Hz) Fig. la 1987ApJ. . .321. .233E infrared spectraofmanyobjects. Continuumemissionfrom nated bythermalemission. suggesting thattheinfraredspectra oftheseobjectsaredomi- percent oftheSeyfert1galaxiesoccupy“dusty”region, the dominantmechanismformostSeyfert1galaxies.Thirty axies isgoodevidencethatthermaldustemissiondominates emission. ThisclearspectraldivisionfromtheSeyfert2 gal- the spectraofSeyfert2galaxies,whilenonthermalradiation is “ quasar-like”regionofFigure2,indicativeflatpower-law 238 Starlight makesasubstantial contributiontothenear- Seventy percentoftheSeyfert1galaxieslieinupperright © American Astronomical Society • Provided by the NASA Astrophysics Data System c) Starlight Frequency (Hz) (Hz) EDELSON, MALKAN,ANDRIEKE Fig. lb meaningful informationabout thestellarpopulationitself. to obtainabetterestimate of thespectrumnuclear source. Instead, thegoalistoremove its contributionsofaraspossible starlight tothespectrainthese objects.Thesedatagivelittle native methodshadtobeusedestimatethecontribution of Filippenko 1983;McAlaryandRieke1987).Therefore,alter- stellar andcompactnuclearsourcecomponents,butsuchdata aperture measurementscanbeusedtoseparatetheextended a Rayleigh-Jeansfallofftolongerwavelengths.Detailedmulti- galactic stellarpopulationspeaksnear1.5/miandhasroughly are availableforonlyafewobjectsinthissample(Malkan and The starlight-correctednuclear fluxwasestimatedat2.2/¿m Vol. 321 1987ApJ. . .321. .233E No. 1,1987 was performedwiththestellar spectrumandapowerlawwith estimates areindicatedbya “b” inTable4.Wherethespec- limit equaltothefluxat Kbandwasassigned.These detected fluxmightarisefrom thenuclearsourceandanupper Table 4.ComparisonwiththeuncorrectedKfluxesin 1 fit wasperformedusinganunreddenedstellarspectrum with the galaxieswhereJHKLdatawereavailable,aleast-squares because therearevirtuallycompleteJHKdataonthesample trum peaksatHorislevelbetween HandK,aleast-squaresfit spectrum rosefrom//toX, itwasassumedthatallthe these objects.WhereonlyJHKdatawereavailableand the shows thatstarlightcorrectionscanbeimportantinmany of to optimizethefit.Theseestimatesareindicatedbyan“a ”in and apowerlawwithspectralindexthatwasallowedtovary normal colors(i.e.,J—H—0.7,HK=0.2,andK—L 0.2) at Kforthesedata.TheseestimatesarelistedinTable4. For and theratioofnucleartostellarfluxisexpectedbelargest spectral indexa =—1.Ifthederivednuclear fluxwaslessthan © American Astronomical Society • Provided by the NASA Astrophysics Data System I Zw1 Mkn 590 0152+06 Mkn 993 0048+29 NGC 3362 NGC 3227 NGC 3079 Mkn 1243 NGC 1144 NGC 1068 Mkn 573 Mkn 335 Mkn 334 NGC 7682 Mkn 533 Mkn 530 2237+07 IC 4397 NGC 3516 NGC 7469 Mkn 817 NGC 5674 NGC 5548 NGC 4051 NGC 3982 Mkn 744 NGC 5940 NGC 5929 Mkn 841 Mkn 686 Mkn 279 Mkn 461 NGC 5273 NGC 5252 Mkn 789 Mkn 231 NGC 4388 Mkn 205 Mkn 766 NGC 4235 NGC 4151 1614+35 Mkn 270 Mkn 266 NGC 5033 1058+45 1335+39 Source > - > - > - > -I > -I • -0.75 -0.89 ±0.05 -1.27 ±0.06 -1.70 ±0.06 -1.77 ±0.03 -0.75 ±0.11 -1.38 ±0.04 -1.31 ±0.04 -2.23 ±i -0.84 ±i -1.57 +- -1.24 ± -1.00 -1.06 ±0.10 2.11 ±0.05 0.76 ±0.07 0.80 0.90 ±0.12 0.69 0.72 ±0.10 <*2.2—25/xm 0.90 0.97 0.66 0.98 1.27 1.27 ±0.06 1.25 1.41 ±0.05 1.24 ±0.06 1.13 ±0.05 1.29 ±0.06 1.28 ±0.03 1.51 ±0.04 1.32 ±0.03 1.17 ±0.07 1.11 ±0.05 1.31 ±0.10 1.05 1.95 1.26 INFRARED PROPERTIESOFSEYFERTGALAXIES 1.83 1.25 1.61 ± i ± ' ± 0.05 ± ' 0.09 0.12 0.06 0.05 0.06 0.11 0.07 0.09 0.05 0.05 0.05 < -1.07 < -1.20 < -0.81 < -0.03 < -0.82 < < -0.73 < -1.99 : -0.65 : -0.88 : -0.55 CfA SeyfertGalaxySpectralIndices -1.26 -0.97 -1.88 -1.16 -1.78 -0.98 -0.59 -1.12 -0.85 -1.15 -2.03 -0.55 -0.97 ±0.07 -0.98 ±0.15 -1.65 -2.19 -1.00 -0.12 -1.87 -1.17 -1.58 -0.73 -1.45 -1.12 -1.24 -1.97 -1.30 -1.74 -1.81 -1.47 -1.39 0.63 0.73 1.46 1.67 <*12-60/im ± 0.06 ± 0.07 ± 0.18 ± 0.14 ± 0.09 ± 0.13 ± 0.11 ± 0.09 ± 0.12 ± 0.14 ± 0.11 ± 0.07 ± 0.09 ±0.17 ± 0.14 ± 0.06 ± 0.11 ± 0.09 ± 0.07 ±0.06 ± 0.14 ± 0.09 ± 0.13 ± 0.10 ± 0.07 ± 0.07 ± 0.04 ± 0.16 ± 0.08 ± 0.15 ± 0.07 ± 0.07 TABLE 3 : -0.74 : -0.70 : -1.25 : -0.91 ; -2.08 ; -2.24 : -0.16 : -0.96 -2.37 -0.85 -0.65 -0.45 -0.60 -2.18 -1.59 -1.19 -1.71 -1.80 -0.95 -1.74 -3.47 -2.24 -2.05 -0.06 -2.50 -0.73 -2.04 -0.43 -1.32 -1.47 -1.18 -0.43 -2.00 -2.75 -1.63 -1.50 -1.61 -2.30 -2.11 -2.07 -2.99 -1.55 at -0.79 ±0.10 -1.32 ±0.22 0.02 makes theJ—Kcolorredder. increasingly dominantnucleusraisesthe12/anluminosity and nonparametric Spearmanrankcorrelationtest(Siegel1956) and Filippenko(1983)McAlaryRieke(1987). these methodsarenotexpectedtobeveryaccurate,theresults 20% ofthetotalatK,anupperlimitKflux was «25-60^m ^o.45—6o umthe98%confidencelevel.Asexpected, an shows thatthereisanegativecorrelationbetweenL and tion betweennuclear(12fim)luminosityanda_. The are generallyinroughagreementwiththosefoundbyMalkan assigned. Theseestimatesareindicatedbya“c.”Although and canconfuse thedeterminationofinfrared spectrumof some degreeintheinfraredspectra ofallnormalspiralgalaxies 12tim 0 4560Mm The importanceofstarlightcanalsobeseeninthecorrela- Thermal emissionfromdustin thegalacticdiskispresentto ± 0.21 ± 0.31 ± 0.19 ± 0.18 ± 0.14 ± 0.19 ± 0.31 ± 0.30 ± 0.09 ± 0.17 ± 0.16 ± 0.16 ± 0.10 ± 0.13 ± 0.26 ± 0.10 ± 0.09 ± 0.18 ±0.16 ± 0.17 ± 0.13 ± 0.25 ± 0.13 ±0.13 ± 0.33 ±0.10 ± 0.08 ± 0.35 ± 0.20 ± 0.10 ± 0.24 ± 0.13 ± 0.16 ± 0.13 ± 0.29 > -2.67 > 1.06 > 0.31 -0.79 -1.79 -0.50 -0.67 -2.57 -1.62 -0.47 -2.13 -2.22 -0.49 -2.32 -1.91 -0.31 ±0.23 -1.73 ±0.31 -1.46 -1.42 -1.45 -0.11 -3.01 -0.26 -1.49 -0.15 -1.53 -0.95 -1.22 -0.46 -0.48 -1.79 -1.59 -0.97 -0.06 -1.40 -0.94 -2.95 -1.33 -0.69 -1.11 -1.76 -0.70 -2.23 <*60-100/im 0.07 0.20 d) ExtendedInfraredEmission ± 0.21 ± 0.27 ± 0.21 ± 0.28 ± 0.37 ± 0.35 ± 0.30 ± 0.24 ± 0.33 ± 0.33 ± 0.42 ± 0.46 ± 0.33 ± 0.29 ± 0.27 ± 0.24 ± 0.25 ± 0.33 ± 0.22 ± 0.50 ± 0.29 ± 0.28 ± 0.22 ± 0.42 ± 0.26 ± 0.23 ± 0.23 ± 0.28 0.44 0.29 0.44 0.32 0.30 0.27 0.36 0.23 0.48 0.14 0.33 0.28 ^lOO/im —1.3mm > 0.51 > 0.16 > -0.47 > 0.70 > 0.04 > > 0.17 > 0.85 > 0.50 > 0.45 > -0.08 0.79 0.46 0.17 0.27 2.53 0.55 0.24 0.09 0.33 0.46 0.30 0.19 0.56 0.94 0.38 0.17 0.15 1.41 1.01 0.52 0.06 0.37 0.96 0.09 0.12 1.16 1.91 1.17 1.42 1.70 1.69 1.25 239 1987ApJ. . .321. .233E errors intheground-basedand IRASphotometry. ments anddonotappearto sufferconfusionwithnearby greater spatialextent.Forexample,sevenofthe38CfASeyfert objects. TheuncertaintyinR wasestimatedbycombiningthe the 22galaxiesinsamplewhich havetherequisitemeasure- as R,the“compactnessparameter.” ItislistedinTable4for This comparisonissimplifiedbythefactthatSeyfertgalaxies ments madewithsmallbeams(typically6"-9"indiameter). starlight canbeseparatedfromnuclearemissionbyitsmuch usually havelittlespectralstructure at10.6gm(Aitkenand the activenucleus.Thisthermalemissionfromdustheated by Roche 1985).Theratioofground-based toIRASfluxisdefined ed structureonangularscalesof>20"at12/un(IRASPoint solved byIRASbutcanbeidentifiedcomparingthe Source Catalog1985). galaxies intheIRASPointSourceCatalog(18%)showresolv- 12 gmmeasurementswithground-based10.6/immeasure- 240 In moredistantgalaxies,thegalacticemissionmaybeunre- © American Astronomical Society • Provided by the NASA Astrophysics Data System NGC 7682 Mkn 533 Mkn 530 NGC 7469 2237+07 NGC 5940 NGC 5929 1614+35 Mkn 841 Mkn 686 Mkn 817 IC 4397 NGC 5674 NGC 5548 Mkn 279 Mkn 461 NGC 5273 Mkn 270 Mkn 266 NGC 5252 Mkn 789 NGC 5033 Mkn 231 NGC 4388 Mkn 205 1335+39 Mkn 766 NGC 4235 NGC 4151 NGC 3982 NGC 4051 Mkn 744 NGC 3516 NGC 3362 NGC 3227 NGC 3079 Mkn 1243 1058+45 NGC 1144 NGC 1068 Mkn 590 0152+06 Mkn 573 I Zw1 Mkn 993 0048+29 Mkn 335 Mkn 334 Source TypeUVX 2 2 1 2 1 1 2 1 1 2 2 1 2 1 2 1 2 2 2 1 1 2 1 2 1 1 2 1 1 2 1 1 1 1 2 1 2 2 1 1 2 2 2 1 2 1 1 1 R B B B R B R B R B R B B B B R R R B R R B B R R R B B R B B R R R R R B B R R B R R R B B B B EDELSON, MALKAN,ANDRIEKE CfA SeyfertGalaxySpectralParameters : 0.11 0.65 ±0.11 0.53 ±0.16 0.72 ±0.09 0.85 ±0.28 0.76 ±0.15 1.03 ±0.23 1.10 +0.15 0.07 ±0.03 0.61 ±0.05 0.82 ±0.12 0.94 ±0.06 0.55 ±0.06 1.23 ±0.15 0.84 ±0.13 0.70 ±0.06 0.22 ±0.03 0.59 ±0.14 0.66 ±0.05 0.81 ±0.10 1.07 ±0.27 0.78 ±0.18 R TABLE 4 Extent SEDNuclearFlux(mjy)Interacting E E E C C C C C E E C E E E E c c C -1 extrapolate the12gmmeasurements to10.6gm. to theIRAS12and25gm measurementsandusingitto wavelengths oftheIRAS and ground-basedphotometric bands. Thiscorrectionwasdetermined byfittingapowerlaw a =—1.Thesecondcorrection allowsforthedifferingeffective This correctionisaweakfunction ofthespectralindexnear to thesamesourcespectrum,theymustbemultipliedby1.22. spectrum. Tocorrecttheground-based10.6/¿mmeasurements assumes colorcorrectionsappropriatetoavpower-law surements ortothenewonesreportedhere.TheIRASsystem tions havebeenappliedtothepublishedSeyfertgalaxymea- (Rayleigh-Jeans ;a=+2)spectraattheeffectivewavelength of calibration givesequivalentmonochromaticfluxesforstellar computing R.First,thecolorcorrectionsinground-based and IRASphotometrymustbereconciled.Theground-based 10.6 /¿m(Rieke,Lebofsky,andLow1985).Nocolorcorrec- Sources withRlessthanunity byatleast3