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在BOSS数据发布9中具有PV宽吸收的类星体

Quasars with PV broad absorption in BOSS data release 9

Daniel M. Capellupo, Fred Hamann, Hanna Herbst, W. Niel Brandt, Jian Ge, Isabelle Pâris, Patrick Petitjean, Donald P. Schneider, Alina Streblyanska, Donald York

摘要:

宽吸收线(BALs)在类星体光谱的重要部分中发现,识别可能存在于所有类星体中的高速外流,并且可能是星系演化反馈的主要因素。理解这些流动的性质需要进一步限制其物理性质,包括其柱密度,对于这些物理性质,由于饱和效应,诸如CIV 1548、1551的充分研究的BALs通常仅提供下限。低丰度线,如PV 1118,1128,表明大柱密度,这意味着流出比单独测量CIV更强大。我们搜索了2694个BAL类星体的样本,从SDSS-III/BOSS DR 9类星体目录的这种吸收,我们确定了81个“明确的”和86个“可能的”检测PV广泛的吸收,产生一个坚定的下限为3.0-6.2%的发生率之间的吸收BAL类星体。PV探测到的类星体往往具有更强的CIV和SiIV吸收,以及比整体BAL类星体更高的LoBAL吸收率。许多PV检测到的类星体都有CIV槽,这些槽没有达到零强度(在检测到PV的速度下),这证实了外流气体只是部分覆盖了UV连续源。PV在非PV检测到的BAL类星体的复合光谱中显着出现,表明PV吸收(和大柱密度)比我们的搜索结果更常见。我们的PV检测样本显著增加了已知PV检测的数量,为后续研究提供了更好地了解BAL流出能量学的机会。

英文摘要:

Broad absorption lines (BALs) found in a significant fraction of quasar spectra identify high-velocity outflows that might be present in all quasars and could be a major factor in feedback to galaxy evolution. Understanding the nature of these flows requires further constraints on their physical properties, including their column densities, for which well-studied BALs, such as CIV 1548,1551, typically provide only a lower limit because of saturation effects. Low-abundance lines, such as PV 1118,1128, indicate large column densities, implying outflows more powerful than measurements of CIV alone would indicate. We search through a sample of 2694 BAL quasars from the SDSS-III/BOSS DR9 quasar catalog for such absorption, and we identify 81 `definite' and 86 `probable' detections of PV broad absorption, yielding a firm lower limit of 3.0-6.2% for the incidence of such absorption among BAL quasars. The PV-detected quasars tend to have stronger CIV and SiIV absorption, as well as a higher incidence of LoBAL absorption, than the overall BAL quasar population. Many of the PV-detected quasars have CIV troughs that do not reach zero intensity (at velocities where PV is detected), confirming that the outflow gas only partially covers the UV continuum source. PV appears significantly in a composite spectrum of non-PV-detected BAL quasars, indicating that PV absorption (and large column densities) are much more common than indicated by our search results. Our sample of PV detections significantly increases the number of known PV detections, providing opportunities for follow-up studies to better understand BAL outflow energetics.

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