Broad NE 8 lambda 774 emission from quasars in the HST-FOS snapshot survey (ABSNAP)

Details Broad NE 8 lambda 774 emission from quasars in the HST-FOS snapshot survey (ABSNAP) Broad NE 8 lambda 774 emission from quasars in the HST-FOS snapshot survey (ABSNAP)

May 1995

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1995apj...444l..69h&link_type=abstract

Astrophysical Journal, Part 2 - Letters (ISSN 0004-637X), vol. 444, no. 2, p. L69-L72

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

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Emission Spectra, Ionization, Neon, Quasars, Red Shift, Stellar Temperature, Faint Object Camera, Flux Density, Hubble Space Telescope, Lyman Spectra, Spectral Line Width, Spectrum Analysis

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We discuss the strength and frequency of broad Ne VIII lambda 774 emission from quasars measured in the Hubble Space Telescope Faint Object Spectrograph (HST-FOS) snapshot survey (Absnap). Five sources in the survey have suitable redshifts (0.86 less than or equal to Zem less than or equal to 1.31), signal-to-noise ratios and no Lyman limit absorptions. Three of the five sources have a strong broad emission line near 774 A (rest), and the remaining two sources have a less securely measured line near this wavelength. We identify these lines with Ne VIII lambda 774 based on the measured wavelengths and theoretical estimates of various line fluxes (Hamann et al. 1995a). Secure Ne VIII detections occur in both radio-loud and radio-quiet sources. We tentatively conclude that broad Ne VIII lambda 774 emission is common in quasars, with typical strengths between approximately 25% and approximately 200% of O VI lambda 1034. These Ne VIII lambda 774 measurements imply that the broad emission line regions have a much hotter and more highly ionized component than previously recognized. They also suggest that quasar continua have substantial ionizing flux out to energies greater than 207 eV (greater than 15.2 ryd, lambda less than 60 A). Photoionization calculations using standard incident spectra indicate that the Ne VIII emission requires ionization parameters U greater than or = 5, total column densities NH greater than or = 1022/sq cm and covering factors greater than or = 25%. The temperatures could be as high as approximately 105 K. If the gas is instead collisionally ionized, strong Ne VIII would imply equilibrium temperatures in the range approximately 400,000 less than or approximately = Te less than or approximately = 106 K. In either case, the highly ionized Ne VIII emission regions would appear as X-ray 'warm absorbers' if they lie along our line of sight to the X-ray continuum source.

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