2010ApJ...713..232P -
Astrophys. J., 713, 232-238 (2010/April-2)
The redshifted excess in quasar C IV broad emission lines.
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Abstract (from CDS):
In this paper, the Evans and Koratkar Atlas of Hubble Space Telescope Faint Object Spectrograph Spectra of Active Galactic Nuclei and Quasars is used to study the redward asymmetry in C IV broad emission lines (BELs). It is concluded that there is a highly significant correlation between the spectral index from 10 GHz to 1350 Å and the amount of excess luminosity in the red wing of the C IV BEL (>99.9999% significance level for the full sample and the radio-loud subsample independently, but no correlation is found for the radio-quiet subsample). This is interpreted as a correlation between radio core dominance and the strength of the C IV redward asymmetry. The data imply that within the quasar environment there is BEL gas with moderately blueshifted emission associated with the purely radio-quiet quasar (RQQ) phenomenon (the accretion disk), and the radio jet emission mechanism is associated with a redward BEL component that is most prominent for lines of sight along the jet axis. Thus, RQQs have C IV BELs that tend to show blueshifted excess, and radio-loud quasars show either a red or blue excess with the tendency for a dominant red excess increasing as the line-of-sight approaches the jet axis.
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galaxies: active - quasars: emission lines - quasars: general
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