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FIRST射电强宽吸收线QSO和隐藏类星体群的证据

The FIRST Radio-Loud Broad Absorption Line QSO and Evidence for a Hidden Population of Quasars

Robert H. Becker, Michael D. Gregg, Isobel M. Hook, Richard G. McMahon, Richard L. White, David J. Helfand

摘要:

我们已经发现了两个低电离宽吸收线类星体的计划,以获得光谱的射电选择类星体候选人从VLA第一次调查(贝克尔,怀特,和Helfand 1995)。两者都属于极为罕见的一类BAL类星体,表现出窄的吸收线从亚稳态激发水平的Fe II和Fe III。到目前为止,只有一个这样的天体,0059-2735(Hazard et al. 1987)。此外,我们的新对象之一是第一个已知的无线电大声BAL类星体。这三个不寻常的物体的性质表明,随着类星体吸收量的增加,射电光度有增加的趋势,并且可能是介于射电大声和射电安静类星体之间的过渡物体。这两个新物体来自一个由不到200个类星体组成的无线电选择样本;其中一个在观测帧中的光波长处严重衰减。这些天体很容易被大多数光学类星体搜索所忽略;它们在射电样本中的丰度表明它们可能是类星体群体中一个很大程度上未被检测到的组成部分的代表,可能和普通的低电离BAL类星体一样多,后者占所有类星体的1-2%。

英文摘要:

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 class of BAL QSOs that exhibit narrow absorption lines from metastable excited levels of Fe II and Fe III. Until now, there was just a single object in this class, 0059-2735 (Hazard et al. 1987). In addition, one of our new objects is the first known radio-loud BAL QSO. The properties of these three unusual objects suggest a trend of increasing radio luminosity with the amount of absorption to the quasar, and are perhaps transition objects between radio-loud and radio-quiet quasars. The two new objects are from a radio-selected sample comprising less than 200 quasars; one is heavily attenuated at optical wavelengths in the observed frame. These objects would be easily overlooked by most optical QSO searches; their abundance in the radio sample suggests that they may be representatives of a largely undetected component of the quasar population, perhaps as numerous as ordinary low-ionization BAL QSOs which constitute 1-2% of all QSOs.

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