English
Related papers

Related papers: AGN Outflows in Emission and Absorption: The SDSS …

200 papers

We report the emergence of a high velocity, broad absorption line outflow in the luminous quasar Ton 34, at z=1.928. The outflow is detected through an ultraviolet CIV broad absorption line, in a spectrum obtained in January 2006 by the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 Y. Krongold , L. Binette , F. Hernandez-Ibarra

We present near-IR, low resolution spectra of eight of the most distant quasars known, with redshifts in the range 4.9<z<6.4. Half of these quasars are characterized by deep, broad and blueshifted absorption features associated with both…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 R. Maiolino , E. Oliva , F. Ghinassi , M. Pedani , F. Mannucci , R. Mujica , Y. Juarez

We present results from X-ray observations of the gravitationally lensed z = 1.51 AGN HS 0810+2554 performed with the Chandra X-ray Observatory and XMM-Newton. Blueshifted absorption lines are detected in both observations at rest-frame…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-06-22 G. Chartas , M. Cappi , F. Hamann , M. Eracleous , S. Strickland , M. Giustini , T. Misawa

We present a time-variability analysis of 29 broad absorption line quasars (BALQSOs) observed in two epochs by the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). These spectra are selected from a larger sample of BALQSOs with multiple observations by…

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 report on the analysis of a large sample of 744 type 1 Active Galactic Nuclei, including quasars and Seyfert 1 galaxies across the redshift range from 0 < z < 5 and spanning nearly 6 orders of magnitude in continuum luminosity. We…

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

The blue-shifted broad absorption lines (BAL) or troughs are observed in Active Galactic Nuclei (AGNs) when our line of sight is intercepted by a high speed outflow (wind), likely originating in the accretion disc. The outflow or wind can…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-03 J. Yang , F. Wu , Z. Paragi , T. An

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

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

Despite the increasing prevalence of RL sources at cosmic noon, our understanding of the underlying physics that governs the accretion disc outflows in these particular sources and its dissimilarity with RQ quasars remains somewhat limited.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-10-30 A. Deconto-Machado , A. del Olmo , P. Marziani

The most luminous quasars (with bolometric luminosities are 1E47 erg/s) show a high prevalence of CIV {\lambda}1549 and [OIII]{\lambda}{\lambda}4959,5007 emission line profiles with strong blueshifts. Blueshifts are interpreted as due to…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-09-19 P. Marziani , C. A. Negrete , D. Dultzin , M. L. Martinez-Aldama , A. Del Olmo , M. D'Onofrio , G. M. Stirpe

Velocity-resolved reverberation mapping suggests that the broad-line regions (BLRs) of AGNs can have significant net inflow. We use the STOKES radiative transfer code to show that electron and Rayleigh scattering off the BLR and torus…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-13 C. Martin Gaskell , Rene W. Goosmann

Quasar outflows carry mass, momentum and energy into the surrounding environment, and have long been considered a potential key factor in regulating the growth of supermassive black holes and the evolution of their host galaxies. A crucial…

We report the first discovery of the emergence of a high-velocity broad-line outflow in a luminous quasar, J105400.40+034801.2 at redshift z ~ 2.1. The outflow is evident in ultraviolet CIV and SiIV absorption lines with velocity shifts v ~…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 F. Hamann , K. F. Kaplan , P. Rodriguez Hidalgo , J. X. Prochaska , S. Herbert-Fort

The current paradigm for the AGN phenomenon is a central engine that consists of an inflow of material accreting in the form of a disk onto a supermassive black hole. Observations in the UV and optical find high velocity ionized material…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 G. Chartas , J. Charlton , M. Eracleous , M. Giustini , P. Rodriguez Hidalgo , R. Ganguly , F. Hamann , T. Misawa , D. Tytler

Gaseous outflows appear to be a universal property of type-1 and type-2 active galactic nuclei (AGN). The main diagnostic is provided by emission features shifted to higher frequency via the Doppler effect, implying that the emitting gas is…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-03-18 Paola Marziani , Alice Deconto-Machado , Ascension del Olmo

The results of a sub-millimeter survey of SDSS broad CIV absorption line quasars is discussed. It is found that the sub-millimeter flux distribution of BAL quasars is similar to that of non-BAL quasars. This is consistent with the idea that…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Chris J. Willott , Steve Rawlings , Jennifer A. Grimes

The high-ionization lines of the broad-line region (BLR) of thermal active galactic nuclei (AGNs) show blueshifts of a few hundred km/s to several thousand km/sec with respect to the low-ionization lines. This has long been thought to be…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-02-03 C. Martin Gaskell , Rene W. Goosmann

We present a brief description of a model for the broad emission line region (BELR) in quasars, which is supported by analysis of CIV and other emission lines in the spectra of high-z SDSS quasars. Specifically we consider a two-component…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-01-13 Gordon T. Richards