Spectral principal component analysis of mid-infrared spectra of a sample of PG QSOs

A spectral principal component (SPC) analysis of a sample of 87 Palomar-Green (PG) QSOs at z < 0.5 is presented for their mid-infrared spectra from Spitzer Space Telescope. We have derived the first five eigenspectra, which account for 85.2 per cent of the mid-infrared spectral variation. It is found that the first eigenspectrum represents the mid-infrared slope, forbidden emission line strength a...