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H $β$谱线宽度作为低电离宽吸收线类星体的方向指示

H$β$ Line Widths as an Orientation Indicator for Low-Ionization Broad Absorption Line Quasars

Brian Punsly, Shaohua Zhang

摘要:

有来自射电强类星体的证据表明,H $β$宽发射线(BEL)气体的分布主要是以平面方向排列的,这一结果也很可能适用于射电静类星体。这意味着观察到的H $β$ BEL的半峰全宽(FWHM)取决于气体视线的方向。如果这种观点是正确的,那么我们建议,FWHM可以作为一个替代品,在大样本,以确定视线的H $β$贝尔在宽吸收线类星体(BALQSO)。它是确定的,有一个统计上显着过量的窄线配置文件中的SDSS DR 7档案光谱的低电离宽吸收线类星体(LoBALQSO),表明BAL气体流动接近赤道面不常见的发生在这些来源。我们还发现,这些数据是不是很好地代表了随机视线的BAL气体。我们的最佳拟合表明两类LoBALQSO,大多数($\approx 2/3$)是极外流,这是负责增强频率的窄线配置文件,其余的赤道外流。我们进一步激发了视线的解释,在LoBALQSO的窄线过剩考虑的概念,线配置文件的偏斜分布是由一个升高的爱丁顿比BALQSO驱动。我们构建了各种控制样品组成的nonLoBALQSO匹配的去红LoBALQSO样品的红移,光度,黑洞质量和爱丁顿比。结果表明,相对于各对照样品,LoBALQSO样品中的窄谱持续过量,且统计学显著性未降低。因此,我们排除了在LoBALQSO中看到的过量窄线来自增强的爱丁顿比的可能性。

英文摘要:

There is evidence from radio-loud quasars to suggest that the distribution of the H$β$ broad emission line (BEL) gas is arranged in a predominantly planar orientation, and this result may well also apply to radio-quiet quasars. This would imply that the observed full width at half maximum (FWHM) of the H$β$ BELs is dependent on the orientation of the line of sight to the gas. If this view is correct then we propose that the FWHM can be used as a surrogate, in large samples, to determine the line of sight to the H$β$ BELs in broad absorption line quasars (BALQSOs).... It is determined that there is a statistically significant excess of narrow line profiles in the SDSS DR7 archival spectra of low ionization broad absorption line quasars (LoBALQSOs), indicating that BAL gas flowing close to the equatorial plane does not commonly occur in these sources. We also find that the data is not well represented by random lines of sight to the BAL gas. Our best fit indicates two classes of LoBALQSOs, the majority ($\approx 2/3$) are polar outflows, that are responsible for the enhanced frequency of narrow line profiles, and the remainder are equatorial outflows. We further motivated the line of sight explanation of the narrow line excess in LoBALQSOs by considering the notion that the skewed distribution of line profiles is driven by an elevated Eddington ratio in BALQSOs. We constructed a variety of control samples comprised of nonLoBALQSOs matched to a de-reddened LoBALQSO sample in redshift, luminosity, black hole mass and Eddington ratio. It is demonstrated that the excess of narrow profiles persists within the LoBALQSO sample relative to each of the control samples with no reduction of the statistical significance. Thus, we eliminate the possibility that the excess narrow lines seen in the LoBALQSOs arise from an enhanced Eddington ratio.

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