Computer Science
Scientific paper
Jan 1993
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1993egte.conf..115g&link_type=abstract
In NASA. Ames Research Center, The Evolution of Galaxies and Their Environment p 115-116 (SEE N93-26706 10-90)
Computer Science
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Absorption Spectra, Faint Objects, Lyman Spectra, Red Shift, Seyfert Galaxies, Emission Spectra, Faint Object Camera, Hubble Space Telescope, Quasars, Spectrographs
Scientific paper
A 1 A resolution spectra of the nearby (z = 0.08797) Seyfert galaxy PG 1351+64 taken with the Faint Object Spectrograph (FOS) onboard the Hubble Space Telescope is presented. Spectral coverage runs from 1200-3200 A in the observed frame and includes emission and absorption features due to Ly-alpha, N 5, Si 4, C 4, and Mg 2. Three distinct intrinsic absorption systems in Ly-alpha, N 5, Si 4, and C 4, and tentatively in Mg 2, at velocities of 900 km/s, 1630 km/s, and 2900 km/s (plus or minus 100 km/s) relative to the emission-line redshift of the QSO were detected. The maximum relative velocity of these absorbers is less than 5000 km/s and therefore does not meet Weymann, Carswell, & Smith's criteria for Broad-Absorption-Line (BAL) QSO's at high-z. However, the absorptions are almost certainly intrinsic to the QSO given the low redshift of this object. In addition, PG 1351+64 is marginally radio-quiet, as are all BALQSO's, based on recent estimates of the radio-loud/radio-quiet dividing line. The narrow velocity width, less than 500 km/s, and low outflow velocities of the absorption systems are more similar to so called 'associated absorbers' seen at high-z in radio-loud quasars, but whose absorptions are thought to arise in clouds much farther from the nucleus (greater than 1 kpc) than are BAL clouds (1-10 pc). Despite the qualitative resemblance to the associated absorbers, the absorption systems in PG 1351+64 appear to be the low-luminosity analogs of BALQSO absorption troughs. The lower observed outflow velocities in PG 1351+64 are due to the much lower luminosity of the nuclear source in comparison to the high-z, high-luminosity BALQSO's. In addition, 'satellite' emission lines displaced 4000-5000 km/s blueward and redward of the Mg 2 emission were discovered.
Granados Arno
Sachs Elise
Shull Michael J.
Stocke John T.
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