Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
1999-05-06
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
6 pages, 3 postscript figures. to appear in Astrophy. J. Letters
Scientific paper
10.1086/312105
Recently, convincing evidence was found for extremely large X-ray absorption by column densities $> 10^{23} cm^{-2}$ in broad absorption line quasars. One consequence of this is that any soft X-ray emission from these QSOs would be the scattered light or leaked light from partially covering absorbing material. A detection of the unabsorbed soft X-ray and absorbed hard X-ray compo nent will allow to determine the total column density as well as the effective covering factor of the absorbing material, which can be hardly obtained from the UV absorption lines. Brinkmann et al. (1999) showed that both the unabsorbed and absorbed components are detected in the nearby very bright broad absorption line quasar PG 1411+442. In this letter, we make a further analysis of the broad band X-ray spectrum and the UV spectrum from HST, and demonstrate that broad absorption lines are completely saturated at the bottom of absorption troughs.
Brinkmann Wolfgang
Matsuoka Masaru
Wang Jing-Xiu
Wang Ting-Gui
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