Metallicity Evolution of Active Galactic Nuclei
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In this contribution we report our recent investigation of the gas metallicity in active galactic nuclei and its dependence on luminosity and redshift. We compile large spectroscopic datasets of broad-line and narrowline AGNs, and compare them with the results of our photoionization models. Through the analysis of both the broad and the narrow emission-line regions, we find that: (1) for a given luminosity, there is no redshift dependence of the gas metallicity; (2) for a given redshift, there is a significant correlation between gas metallicity and luminosity; (3) the luminosity-metallicity relation does no show any evolution in the redshift range 2 ∼< z ∼< 4.
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