Type 2 AGNs with double-peaked narrow emission lines

J/ApJ/708/427) at z~0.1 with a new sample of 178 Type 2 AGNs with double-peaked [OIII] emission lines at z~0.5. We select the new sample from a parent sample of 2089 Type 2 AGNs from the SDSS-III/Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey. We find a statistically significant (~4.2{sigma}) correlation between L_[OIII}]_ and the fraction of objects that exhibit double-peaked narrow emission lines among all Type 2 AGNs, corrected for selection bias and incompleteness due to [OIII] line width, equivalent width, splitting velocity, and/or equivalent width ratio between the two velocity components.

Our result suggests that galactic-scale outflows and/or merging pairs of SMBHs are more prevalent in more powerful AGNs, although spatially resolved follow-up observations are needed to resolve the origin(s) for the narrow-line velocity splitting for individual AGNs.