Spectropolarimetry of FIRST BAL QSOs

Details Spectropolarimetry of FIRST BAL QSOs Spectropolarimetry of FIRST BAL QSOs

1997-07-22

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9707238v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

14 pages, 1 table, 2 figures. To appear in ApJ Letters

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We present Keck spectropolarimetry of two rare low-ionization broad absorption line (BAL) QSOs, FIRST J084044.5+363328 and FIRST J155633.8+351758, that also exhibit narrow absorption lines from metastable excited levels of Fe II (``Iron Lo-BALs''). These QSOs were discovered in optical follow-ups to a deep radio survey; FIRST J155633.8+351758 is radio-loud, the first BAL QSO so identified. FIRST J084044.5+363328 is highly polarized and exhibits many features found in other BAL QSOs, and the polarization and its position angle vary in a complicated manner across the metastable Fe II absorption lines, suggesting that more than one mechanism is at work, or that the system geometry is complex. FIRST J155633.8+351758 may be the most highly polarized BAL QSO known, and exhibits other unusual polarization properties compared to other highly polarized BAL QSOs. Currently available data cannot yet discriminate among the possible lines of sight to BAL QSOs (edge-on, pole-on, or random).

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