Morphology of Seyfert Galaxies
- Authors: Chen Y.1,2, Hwang C.3
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							Affiliations: 
							- ICRANet
- ICRA and University of Rome “Sapienza,”
- Graduate Institute of Astronomy
 
- Issue: Vol 62, No 12 (2018)
- Pages: 853-858
- Section: Article
- URL: https://journals.rcsi.science/1063-7729/article/view/191966
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1134/S1063772918120181
- ID: 191966
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Abstract
We probed the relation between properties of Seyfert nuclei and morphology of their host galaxies. We selected Seyfert galaxies from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey with redshifts less than 0.2 identified by the Vé ron Catalog (13th). We used the FracDev parameter from SDSS galaxy fitting models to represent the bulge fractions of the Seyfert host galaxies. We found that the host galaxies of Seyfert 1 and Seyfert 2 are dominated by large bulge fractions, and Seyfert 2 galaxies are more likely to be located in disk galaxies whereas most of the Seyfert 1 galaxies are located in bulge-dominant galaxies. These results indicate that the types of AGNs are related to their host galaxies and cannot be explained by the traditional unification model of Seyfert galaxies.
About the authors
Y.-C. Chen
ICRANet; ICRA and University of Rome “Sapienza,”
							Author for correspondence.
							Email: Yen-Chen.Chen@icranet.org
				                					                																			                												                	Italy, 							Pescara; Rome						
C.-Y. Hwang
Graduate Institute of Astronomy
														Email: Yen-Chen.Chen@icranet.org
				                					                																			                												                	Taiwan, Province of China, 							Chung-Li						
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