2019ApJ...879..123L -
Astrophys. J., 879, 123-123 (2019/July-2)
Broad emission and absorption line outflows in the quasar SDSS J163345.22+512748.4.
LIU B., ZHOU H., SHU X., ZHANG S., JI T., PAN X. and JIANG P.
Abstract (from CDS):
We present a detailed study of the optical and near-infrared (NIR) emission and absorption line spectrum of the quasar SDSS J163345.22+512748.4. We discovered on the newly acquired NIR spectrum a highly metastable neutral helium broad absorption line (BAL) He I* λ10830 with a width of ∼2000 km s–1 and a blueshift of ∼7000 km s–1 in the velocity space. The BAL system is also significantly detected in Mg II and He I* λ3889. We estimate a column density of (5.0 ± 1.7) x 1014 cm–2 for the He I*(2 3S) level and infer an ionization parameter of UA = 10–1.9±0.2 for the BAL outflow, assuming that the BAL region is thick enough for a full development of an ionization front. The total column density of the BAL outflow is constrained in the range NH ∼ 1021-1021.4 cm–2. We also found that the bulk of both Mg II and UV Fe II, as well as of Hα broad emission lines (BELs), are blueshifted with a velocity of ∼2200 km s–1 with respect to the quasar systemic redshift. We constrain the blueshifted BEL region to have a covering factor Cf ≃ 16%, density nH ∼ 1010.6-1011.3 cm–3, column density NH >= 1023 cm–2, and ionization parameter UE ∼ 10–2.1-10–1.5. The outflow gas is located at ∼0.1 pc away from the central ionization source, at a scale comparable to the broad-line region. A toy kinetic model has been proposed to reproduce the profile of Mg II BEL well if a partial obscured axisymmetric geometry of the outflow with a radial velocity as observed from the BALs is assumed.
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quasars: absorption lines - quasars: emission lines - quasars: individual: SDSS J163345.22+512748.4
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