Search for partial systemic Lyman edges in nearby quasars

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Dec 1992

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1992apj...400..435k&link_type=abstract

Astrophysical Journal, Part 1 (ISSN 0004-637X), vol. 400, no. 2, p. 435-459.

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

66

Active Galactic Nuclei, Continuous Spectra, Lyman Spectra, Quasars, Spectrum Analysis, Absorption Spectra, Gas Density, Line Spectra, Ultraviolet Astronomy

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IUE archival spectra of nearby quasars with redshifts in the range 0.4-2.3 were searched for changes in the continuum at the systemic Lyman edge positions. Thirty-nine percent of the sample do not show any discontinuities. Twenty-nine percent of the sample show complete Lyman edges at redshifts less than the quasar redshift. These objects have associated narrow absorption lines; hence the intervening gas responsible for the absorption is extrinsic to the quasar and its environment. Twenty-two percent of the sample show Lyman edges at the quasar redshift with associated narrow absorption lines. In these objects the gas is associated with the AGN or its host galaxy. Ten percent of the sample have Lyman edges with no known associated absorption lines. If Lyman edge discontinuities are due to optically thick, geometrically thin accretion disks, which are randomly oriented to the line of sight, these results indicate that the Lyman edge discontinuity, either in emission or absorption, has to be not more than 15 percent in most quasars.

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