Probing Broad Absorption Line Quasar Outflows: X-ray Insights
Abstract
Energetic outflows appear to occur in conjunction with active mass accretion onto supermassive black holes. These outflows are most readily observed in the approximately 10% of quasars with broad absorption lines, where the observer's line of sight passes through the wind. Until fairly recently, the paucity of X-ray data from these objects was notable, but now sensitive hard-band missions such as Chandra and XMM-Newton are routinely detecting broad absorption line quasars. The X-ray regime offers qualitatively new information for the understanding of these objects, and these new results must be taken into account in theoretical modeling of quasar winds.
Cite
@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0212304,
title = {Probing Broad Absorption Line Quasar Outflows: X-ray Insights},
author = {S. C. Gallagher and W. N. Brandt and G. Chartas and G. P. Garmire and R. M. Sambruna},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0212304},
year = {2015}
}
Comments
Submitted to Advances in Space Research for New X-ray Results from Clusters of Galaxies and Black Holes (Oct 2002; Houston, TX), eds. C. Done, E.M. Puchnarewicz, M.J. Ward. Requires cospar.sty (6 pgs, 5 figs)