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Galactic outflows driven by rapidly-accreting quasars at high redshift are widely expected to play a key role in the short- and long-term future evolution of their host galaxies. Using new and archival ALMA data, we observed the OH 119um…

Using the Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph, we have obtained ultraviolet (UV) spectra from $\sim 1200$ to 2000 \AA\ of known Lyman continuum (LyC) emitting galaxies at low redshift ($z \sim 0.3-0.4$) with varying absolute LyC escape…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-03-02 D. Schaerer , Y. I. Izotov , G. Worseck , D. Berg , J. Chisholm , A. Jaskot , K. Nakajima , S. Ravindranath , T. X. Thuan , A. Verhamme

AGN feedback now appears as an attractive mechanism to resolve some of the outstanding problems with the "standard" cosmological models, in particular those related to massive galaxies. To directly constrain how this may influence the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 N. P. H. Nesvadba , M. D. Lehnert , C. De Breuck , A. M. Gilbert , W. van Breugel

Some cosmological hydrodynamical simulations predict that outflows driven by active galactic nuclei (AGN) play a key role in powering the Ly$\alpha$ nebulae observed around high-redshift quasars. In such simulations, AGN feedback seeded as…

We report on the discovery of a rare case of spatially and kinematically resolved galactic scale outflow at intermediate redshift, based on VLT/MUSE optical integral field spectroscopic observation of the quasar HE 0238$-$1904. This…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-02-08 Qinyuan Zhao , Junfeng Wang

The CIII] and CIV rest-frame UV emission lines are powerful probes of the ionizations states of galaxies. They have furthermore been suggested as alternatives for spectroscopic redshift confirmation of objects at the epoch of reionization…

Quasar outflows have been posited as a mechanism to couple super-massive black holes to evolution in their host galaxies. We use multi-epoch spectra from the Hubble Space Telescope and ground-based observatories to study the outflows in…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-12-05 E. A. Moravec , F. Hamann , D. M. Capellupo , S. M. McGraw , J. C. Shields , P. Rodríguez Hidalgo

Quasar accretion-disk outflows might play an important role in galaxy evolution, but they are notoriously difficult to study due to line saturation and blending problems in the Ly-alpha forest. We circumvent these problems by constructing…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-11-07 Fred Hamann , Hanna Herbst , Isabelle Paris , Daniel Capellupo

A statistical study is presented of (a) the frequency of narrow CIV lambda 1549 absorption lines in 1.5 <~ z <~ 3.6 radio-quiet and radio-loud quasars, and of (b) the UV and radio properties of the absorbed quasars. The quasar sample is…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 M. Vestergaard

Fast accreting, extremely luminous quasars contribute heavily to the feedback process within galaxies. While these systems are most common at cosmic noon ($z\sim2$), here we choose to study PDS 456, an extremely luminous ($L_{bol}\sim…

We present Reverberation Mapping results after monitoring a sample of 17 high-z, high-luminosity quasars for more than 10 years using photometric and spectroscopic capabilities. Continuum and line emission flux variability is observed in…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-01-12 Paulina Lira , Ismael Botti , Shai Kaspi , Hagai Netzer

Quasar feedback in the form of powerful outflows is invoked as a key mechanism to quench star formation in galaxies, preventing massive galaxies to over-grow and producing the red colors of ellipticals. On the other hand, some models are…

Quasars accreting at very high rates are believed to be prime movers of galactic evolution because of their high radiative and mechanical output. The study presented in this paper investigates a sample of six highly accreting quasars at…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-04-29 T. M. Buendia-Rios , P. Marziani , C. A. Negrete , D. Dultzin

We present Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) observations of six radio-loud quasar host galaxies at $z=1.4-2.3$. We combine the kpc-scale resolution ALMA observations with high spatial-resolution adaptive optics integral…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-12-22 Andrey Vayner , Nadia Zakamska , Shelley A. Wright , Lee Armus , Norman Murray , Gregory Walth

We report on quasar outflow properties revealed by analyzing more than 60 composite outflow spectra built from $\sim 60\,000$ CIV absorption troughs in the SDSS-III/BOSS DR12QBAL catalog. We assess the dependences of the equivalent widths…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-01-08 Lluís Mas-Ribas

Recently, the CIII] and CIV emission lines have been observed in galaxies in the early Universe ($z>5$), providing new ways to measure their redshift and study their stellar populations and AGN. We explore the first blind CII], CIII] and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-08-16 Andra Stroe , David Sobral , Jorryt Matthee , João Calhau , Ivan Oteo

We have identified ionized outflows in the narrow line region of all but one SDSS type 2 quasars (QSO2) at z<~0.1 (20/21, detection rate 95%), implying that this is a ubiquitous phenomenon in this object class also at the lowest z. The…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-19 M. Villar Martin , B. Emonts , A. Humphrey , A. Cabrera Lavers , L. Binette

We consider the impact of quasar outflows on structure formation. Such outflows are potentially more important than galactic winds, which appear insufficient to produce the level of preheating inferred from X-ray observations of galaxy…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-07-18 Evan Scannapieco , S. Peng Oh

Despite extensive efforts, only two quasars have been found at $z>7$ to date due to a combination of low spatial density and high contamination from more ubiquitous Galactic cool dwarfs in quasar selection. This limits our current knowledge…