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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…

FeLoBALs are a rare class of quasar outflows with low-ionization broad absorption lines (BALs), large column densities, and potentially large kinetic energies that might be important for `feedback' to galaxy evolution. In order to probe the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-09-09 S. M. McGraw , J. C. Shields , F. W. Hamann , D. M. Capellupo , S. C. Gallagher , W. N. Brandt

We report sensitive Chandra X-ray non-detections of two unusual, luminous Iron Low-Ionization Broad Absorption Line Quasars (FeLoBALs). The observations do detect a non-BAL, wide-binary companion quasar to one of the FeLoBAL quasars. We…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-01-17 Jesse A. Rogerson , Patrick B. Hall , Stephanie A. Snedden , Michael S. Brotherton , Scott F. Anderson

We report the discovery of unusual broad absorption lines (BALs) in the bright quasar SDSS J075133.35+134548.3 at z~1, and present a detailed study of BAL and emission lines using the archived and newly obtained optical and NIR…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-05-05 Bo Liu , Hongyan Zhou , Xinwen Shu , Shaohua Zhang , Tuo Ji , Xiang Pan , Peng Jiang

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

Broad absorption line (BAL) features in quasar spectra reveal an unambiguous signature of energetic outflows from central supermassive black holes, and thus BAL quasars are prime targets for investigating the potential process of luminous…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-03-04 Hyunseop Choi , Karen M. Leighly , Donald M. Terndrup , Sarah C. Gallagher , Gordon T. Richards

We report the discovery of an unusual low--ionization broad absorption line quasar at z=1.776 which exhibits absorption lines from many excited states of Feii. This member of the rare class of 'FeLoBAL' quasars was serendipitously found in…

The Sloan Digital Sky Survey has confirmed the existence of populations of broad absorption line (BAL) quasars with various unusual properties. We present and discuss twenty-three such objects and consider the implications of their wide…

We have discovered a remarkable quasar, FIRST J101614.3+520916, whose optical spectrum shows unambiguous broad absorption features while its double-lobed radio morphology and luminosity clearly indicate a classic Fanaroff-Riley Type II…

We report on the spectral confirmation of 18 QSO candidates from the "QUasars as BRIght beacons for Cosmology in the Southern hemisphere'' survey (QUBRICS), previously observed in the optical band, for which we acquired new spectroscopic…

We have observed a dramatic change in the spectrum of the formerly heavily absorbed `overlapping-trough' iron low-ionization broad absorption line (FeLoBAL) quasar FBQS J1408+3054. Over a time span of between 0.6 to 5 rest-frame years, the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 Patrick B. Hall , Konstantin Anosov , R. L. White , W. N. Brandt , M. D. Gregg , R. R. Gibson , R. H. Becker , D. P. Schneider

We present the first systematic study of 50 low redshift ($0.66 < z < 1.63$) iron low-ionization broad absorption-line quasars (FeLoBALQs) using $SimBAL$ which represents a more than five-fold increase in the number of FeLoBALQs with…

We have discovered two low-ionization broad absorption line quasars in programs to obtain optical spectra for radio-selected quasar candidates from the VLA FIRST Survey (Becker, White, & Helfand 1995). Both belong to the extremely rare…

We report the results of analysis of the Hbeta emission-line region of a sample of thirty low-redshift (z<1) iron low-ionization broad absorption line quasars (FeLoBALQs). Eleven of these objects are newly classified as FeLoBALQs. A matched…

The Sloan Digital Sky Survey has discovered a population of broad absorption line quasars with various extreme properties. Many show absorption from metastable states of FeII with varying excitations; several objects are almost completely…

We show for the first time that FBQS J1151+3822 is an iron low-ionization broad absorption line quasar (FeLoBAL QSO), the second-brightest and second-closest known example of this class. He I* and Fe II together act as an effective…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2014-02-18 Adrian B. Lucy , Karen M. Leighly , Donald M. Terndrup , Matthias Dietrich , Sarah C. Gallagher

We present Keck spectropolarimetry of two rare low-ionization broad absorption line (BAL) QSOs, FIRST J084044.5+363328 and FIRST J155633.8+351758, that also exhibit narrow absorption lines from metastable excited levels of Fe II (``Iron…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 M. S. Brotherton , Hien D. Tran , Wil van Breugel , Arjun Dey , Robert Antonucci

We present a multi-epoch spectroscopic study of the broad absorption line (BAL) quasar J115636.82+085628.9 (z(em) = 2.1077), based on five spectra spanning nearly two decades in the observer's frame. This source exhibits remarkable…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-08-05 P. Aromal , R. Srianand , S. C. Gallagher , M. Vivek , P. Petitjean

SDSS J083942.11+380526.3 is an Iron Low-ionization Broad Absorption Line (FeLoBAL) quasar at z = 2.3, and Aoki et al. (2006) recently found the presence of an H alpha absorption line in the broad H alpha emission line. Motivated by an idea…

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