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We investigate C IV broad absorption line (BAL) variability within a sample of 46 radio-loud quasars (RLQs), selected from SDSS/FIRST data to include both core-dominated (39) and lobe-dominated (7) objects. The sample consists primarily of…

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The variability of broad absorption lines is investigated for a sample of 188 broad-absorption-line (BAL) quasars (QSOs) ($z > 1.7$) with at least two-epoch observations from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data Release 7 (SDSS DR7), covering…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-11-04 Zhi-Cheng He , Wei-Hao Bian , Xiao-Lei Jiang , Xue Ge

Broad absorption lines (BALs) in quasar spectra identify high velocity outflows that likely exist in all quasars and could play a major role in feedback to galaxy evolution. Studying the variability in these BALs can help us understand the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-04-30 Daniel M. Capellupo , Fred Hamann , Joseph C. Shields , Jules Halpern , Paola Rodríguez Hidalgo , Tom A. Barlow

We present 21 examples of C IV Broad Absorption Line (BAL) trough disappearance in 19 quasars selected from systematic multi-epoch observations of 582 bright BAL quasars (1.9 < z < 4.5) by the Sloan Digital Sky Survey-I/II (SDSS-I/II) and…

We present an analysis of the variability of broad absorption lines (BALs) in a quasar SDSS J141955.26+522741.1 at $z=2.145$ with 72 observations from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data Release 16 (SDSS DR16). The strong correlation between…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-01-12 Qinyuan Zhao , Zhicheng He , Guilin Liu , Tinggui Wang , Hengxiao Guo , Lu Shen , Guobin Mou

We systematically investigate short-timescale ($<$10-day rest-frame) CIV broad absorption-line (BAL) variability to constrain quasar-wind properties and provide insights into BAL-variability mechanisms in quasars. We employ data taken by…

We present a statistical analysis of the variability of broad absorption lines (BALs) in quasars using the large multi-epoch spectroscopic dataset of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data Release 12 (SDSS DR12). We divide the sample into two…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-04-03 Zhicheng He , Tinggui Wang , Hongyan Zhou , Weihao Bian , Guilin Liu , Chenwei Yang , Liming Dou , Luming Sun

We present a study of Broad Absorption Line (BAL) quasar outflows that show S IV ?1063 and S IV* ?1073 troughs. The fractional abundance of S IV and C IV peak at similar value of the ionization parameter, implying that they arise from the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 Jay P. Dunn , Nahum Arav , Kentaro Aoki , Ashlee Wilkins , Courtney Laughlin , Doug Edmonds , Manuel Bautista

We recently presented radio observations of a large sample of radio-loud broad absorption line (BAL) quasars from the SDSS and FIRST surveys, as well as a well matched sample of unabsorbed quasars, primarily to measure their radio spectral…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 M. A. DiPompeo , M. S. Brotherton , S. L. Cales , J. C. Runnoe

We present absorption variability results for 134 bona fide \mgii\ broad absorption line (BAL) quasars at 0.46~$\lesssim z \lesssim$~2.3 covering days to $\sim$ 10 yr in the rest frame. We use multiple-epoch spectra from the Sloan Digital…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-06-26 Weimin. Yi , W. N. Brandt , P. B. Hall , M. Vivek , C. J. Grier , N. Filiz Ak , D. P. Schneider , S. M. McGraw

Quasar outflows have long been recognized as potential contributors to the co-evolution between supermassive black holes (SMBHs) and their host galaxies. The role of outflows in AGN feedback processes can be better understood by placing…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-01-31 S. M. McGraw , J. C. Shields , F. W. Hamann , D. M. Capellupo , H. Herbst

Luminous quasars are powerful targets to investigate the role of feedback from supermassive black-holes (BHs) in regulating the growth phases of BHs themselves and of their host galaxies, up to the highest redshifts. Here we investigate the…

Broad Absorption Lines indicate gas outflows with velocities from thousands km/s to about 0.2 the speed of light, which may be present in all quasars and may play a major role in the evolution of the host galaxy. The variability of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 D. Trevese , F. G. Saturni , F. Vagnetti , M. Perna , D. Paris , S. Turriziani

We analyze VLT/X-shooter data for 7 quasars, where we study the relationships between their broad absorption line (BAL) and emission line outflows. We find: 1) the luminosity of the [OIII] $\lambda$5007 emission profile decreases with…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-05-13 Xinfeng Xu , Nadia Zakamska , Nahum Arav , Timothy Miller , Chris Benn

We present the variability study of broad absorption lines (BALs) in a uniformly radio-selected sample of 28 BAL quasars using the archival data from the FIRST Bright Quasar Survey (FBQS) and the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS), as well as…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-04-17 Shaohua Zhang , Hongyan Zhou , Tinggui Wang , Huiyuan Wang , Xiheng Shi , Bo Liu , Wenjuan Liu , Zhenzhen Li , Shufen Wang

The physical properties and dynamical behavior of Broad Absorption Line (BAL) outflows are crucial themes in understanding the connections between galactic centers and their hosts. FeLoBALs (identified with the presence of low-ionization Fe…

Using the radio observations by FIRST and NVSS, we build a sample of 151 radio variable quasars selected from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data Release 3 (SDSS DR3). Six (probably another two) among them are classified as broad absorption…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Hongyan Zhou , Tinggui Wang , Huiyuan Wang , Junxian Wang , Weimin Yuan , Yu Lu

We present a new set of 84 Broad absorption line (BAL) quasars ( 1.7 $<$ \zem $<$ 4.4) exhibiting an appearance of \civ BAL troughs over 0.3$-$4.8 rest-frame years by comparing the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data Release (SDSSDR)-7,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-04-07 Sapna Mishra , M. Vivek , Hum Chand , Ravi Joshi

In this Letter, we present an analysis of the relation between the variability of broad absorption lines (BALs) and that of the continuum. Our sample is multi-epoch observations of 483 quasars by the Sloan Digital Sky Survey-I/II/III…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-11-13 Wei-Jian Lu , Ying-Ru Lin , Yi-Ping Qin

Broad absorption line (BAL) quasars exhibit significant outflows, offering insights into active galactic nuclei (AGN) feedback. While typically associated with high Eddington ratios, BAL quasars also occur in low Eddington ratio regimes,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-03-26 M. Vivek , Dominika Wylezalek