2021MNRAS.505.4444Y -
Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc., 505, 4444-4455 (2021/August-2)
Probing the He II re-Ionization ERa via Absorbing C IV Historical Yield (HIERACHY) I: A strong outflow from a z ∼ 4.7 quasar.
YU X., LI J.-T., QU Z., ROEDERER I.U., BREGMAN J.N., FAN X., FANG T., JOHNSON S.D., WANG F. and YANG J.
Abstract (from CDS):
Outflows from supermassive black holes (SMBHs) play an important role in the co-evolution of themselves, their host galaxies, and the larger scale environments. Such outflows are often characterized by emission and absorption lines in various bands and in a wide velocity range blueshifted from the systematic redshift of the host quasar. In this paper, we report a strong broad line region (BLR) outflow from the z ≃ 4.7 quasar BR 1202-0725 based on the high-resolution optical spectrum taken with the Magellan Inamori Kyocera Echelle (MIKE) spectrograph installed on the 6.5 m Magellan/Clay telescope, obtained from the 'Probing the He II re-Ionization ERa via Absorbing C IV Historical Yield' (HIERACHY) project. This rest-frame ultraviolet (UV) spectrum is characterized by a few significantly blueshifted broad emission lines from high ions; the most significant one is the C IV line at a velocity of ∼-6500 km s–1 relative to the H α emission line, which is among the highest velocity BLR outflows in observed quasars at z > 4. The measured properties of UV emission lines from different ions, except for O I and Ly α, also follow a clear trend that higher ions tend to be broader and outflow at higher average velocities. There are multiple C IV and Si IV absorbing components identified on the blue wings of the corresponding emission lines, which may be produced by either the outflow or the intervening absorbers.
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© 2021 The Author(s) Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of Royal Astronomical Society
Journal keyword(s):
quasars: absorption lines - quasars: emission lines
Errata:
erratum vol. 518, p. 1975 (2023)
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