We attempt to characterize the geometry of Broad Absorption Line (BAL) QSOs by studying a low redshift sample of 12 sources. We find that the majority of these sources are Population A quasars as defined in (broad H-beta FWHM > 4000 kms/s; Sulenticet al 2000). A possible correlation between terminal velocity and absolute V magnitude suggests that the bolometric luminosity to black hole mass ratio \lm is a governing factor with classical BAL sources showing the highest values. CIV 1549 emission in classical BAL sources shows a profile blueshift that supports a disk wind/outflow scenario with a half opening angle of < 50 deg. Observation of ``secondary'' mini-BAL features in the CIV 1549 emission profile motivates us to model BALs with an additional component that may be involved with the BLR outflow and co-axial with the accretion disk.
@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0511230,
title = {Low Redshift BAL QSOs in the Eigenvector 1 Context},
author = {J. W. Sulentic and D. Dultzin-Hacyan and P. Marziani and C. Bongardo and V. Braito and M. Calvani and R. Zamanov},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0511230},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
Accepted for publication in Revista Mexicana de Astronomia y Astrofisica