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We have obtained high resolution (FWHM = 4.4 km/s) Keck spectra of images A and C of the gravitationally lensed QSO Q1422+231. The images are separated by 1.3" on the sky. In an absorption system at z = 3.538 gas column density variations…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Michael Rauch , Wallace L. W. Sargent , Thomas A. Barlow

We have studied a sample of 415 associated (z_ab z_em; relative velocity with respect to QSO <3000km/s) Mg II absorption systems with 1.0<=z_ab<=1.86, in the spectra of SDSS DR3 QSOs, to determine the dust content and ionization state in…

The quasi-stellar object (QSO)/merger Mrk 231 is arguably the nearest and best laboratory for studying QSO feedback. It hosts several outflows, including broad-line winds, radio jets, and a poorly-understood kpc scale outflow. In this…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2013-03-28 David S. N. Rupke , Sylvain Veilleux

By charting the kinematic, chemical, and ionization conditions of galactic and intergalactic gas over the redshift range 0 - 4 with QSO absorption lines, the evolution of chemical abundances, the UV meta-galactic background, and the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Christopher W. Churchill

Previous surveys of outflows in low-redshift active galactic nuclei (AGN) have relied on the analysis of sources selected primarily for their optical/X-ray brightness, and are therefore biased. Towards determining the outflow properties of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-20 Lisa M. Winter

Using the results of a previous X-ray photo-ionization modelling of blue-shifted Fe K absorption lines on a sample of 42 local radio-quiet AGNs observed with XMM-Newton, in this letter we estimate the location and energetics of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-03 F. Tombesi , M. Cappi , J. N. Reeves , V. Braito

The physical conditions in the inner narrow line region (NLR) of the Seyfert 2 galaxy, NGC 1068, are examined using ultraviolet and optical spectra and photoionization models. The spectra are Hubble Space Telescope (HST) Harchive data…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Steven B. Kraemer , Jose R. Ruiz , D. Michael Crenshaw

With the advent of Chandra and XMM, X-ray lines spectroscopy of AGN outflows is off to an exciting start. In this paper we illuminate some of the complications involved in extracting the outflow's physical conditions (ionization…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Nahum Arav

We measure the location and energetics of a SIV BALQSO outflow. This ouflow has a velocity of 10,800 km s$^{-1}$ and a kinetic luminosity of $10^{45.7}$ erg s$^{-1}$, which is 5.2% of the Eddington luminosity of the quasar. From collisional…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-07-02 Carter Chamberlain , Nahum Arav , Chris Benn

We observed the quasar PG1211+143 using the Cosmic Origins Spectrograph on the Hubble Space Telescope in April 2015 as part of a joint campaign with the Chandra X-ray Observatory and the Jansky Very Large Array. Our ultraviolet spectra…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-01-24 Gerard A. Kriss , Julia C. Lee , Ashkbiz Danehkar , Michael A. Nowak , Taotao Fang , Martin J. Hardcastle , Joseph Neilsen , Andrew Young

We calculate the temperature and ionization balance in an outflow from an accreting black hole under illumination by hard radiation from the central object. Electron scattering of the Fe K_alpha photons within the highly ionized expanding…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 J. Martin Laming , Lev Titarchuk

The high spatial and spectral resolution offered by the new generation of infrared spectrometers at ESO is optimally suited for the observational study of outflows from young stellar objects. Models of interstellar shock waves would benefit…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 R. Liseau

To investigate the impact of winds and low-to-moderate power jets on the cold molecular gas reservoirs of AGN, we present high angular resolution ALMA CO(2-1) and CO(3-2) observations of a sample of six type-2 quasars (QSO2s) at z$\sim$0.1…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-07-02 A. Audibert , C. Ramos Almeida , S. García-Burillo , G. Speranza , I. Lamperti , M. Pereira-Santaella , F. Panessa

We study high-resolution spectra of the `overlapping-trough' low-ionization broad absorption line (LoBAL) quasar SDSS J030000.56+004828.0. The CaII, MgII and MgI column densities in this object are the largest reported to date for any BAL…

We present the discovery of an outflowing ionized wind in the Seyfert 1 Galaxy Mrk 335. Despite having been extensively observed by most of the largest X-ray observatories in the last decade, this bright source was not known to host warm…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 A. L. Longinotti , Y. Krongold , G. Kriss , J. Ely , L. Gallo , D. Grupe , S. Komossa , S. Mathur , A. Pradhan

We characterize the ionized gas outflows in 15 low-redshift star-forming galaxies, a Valpara\'iso ALMA Line Emission Survey (VALES) subsample, using MUSE integral field spectroscopy and GAMA photometric broadband data. We measure the…

We present a detailed study of ionized outflows in a large sample of ~650 hard X-ray detected AGN. Using optical spectroscopy from the BAT AGN Spectroscopic Survey (BASS) we are able to reveal the faint wings of the [OIII] emission lines…

The velocities of the [O III] 5007 and optical Fe II emission lines, measured relative to the systemic redshifts of 2265 QSOs by Hu et al. (2008), show the signature of a disklike BLR structure with polar outflows. Objects with large [O…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 Todd A. Boroson

We present new XMM-Newton and NuSTAR observations of the galaxy merger IRAS F05189-2524 which is classified as an ultra-luminous infrared galaxy (ULIRG) and optical Seyfert 2 at $z$ = 0.0426. We test a variety of spectral models which…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-01-08 Robyn N. Smith , Francesco Tombesi , Sylvain Veilleux , Anne M. Lohfink , Alfredo Luminari

We use MUSE adaptive optics (AO) data in Narrow Field Mode to study the properties of the ionised gas in MR 2251-178 and PG 1126-041, two nearby (z~0.06) bright quasars hosting sub-pc scale Ultra Fast Outflows (UFOs) detected in the X-ray…