Physics
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Jan 2011
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2011aas...21732607o&link_type=abstract
American Astronomical Society, AAS Meeting #217, #326.07; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 43, 2011
Physics
Scientific paper
Studies of absorption in the vicinity of z > 6 quasars will enable characterization of the final stages of the epoch of reionization, and measurement of the last remnants of the neutral fraction from the cosmic dark ages. Before this can happen, we will need to know the intrinsic shape of the rest-frame FUV spectrum of luminous quasars, and in particular of the Lyman-Alpha emission line. To date, such measurements have only been possible for local, low luminosity quasars and Seyferts whose FUV spectra are not strongly absorbed in the IGM. These AGN are poor models of their high-luminosity cousins, and the BELR physics driving the Ly-alpha line may be very different. I will outline two approaches to measuring the true, unabsorbed FUV spectra of luminous quasars. First, by observing differential microlensing of strongly lensed quasars at z > 3, I will show how we can algebraically reconstruct the true FUV spectrum, and recover the absorption spectrum and measure the proximity effect to boot. Second, by targeting a narrow redshift range at z 1, we can identify a subsample of luminous quasars that have avoided significant absorption, but are nonetheless genuine analogs of our z > 6 quasars. I will show some preliminary GALEX data of these quasars.
Haiman Zoltan
O'Dowd Matthew
Schiminovich David
Webster Rachel L.
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