Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2007-01-25
Astrophys.J.657:L9-L12,2007
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
To appear in ApJ Letters
Scientific paper
10.1086/512968
In this Letter, the broad emission line (BEL) profiles of superluminal quasars with apparent jet velocities, $\beta_{a}>10$, (ultraluminal QSOs, or ULQSOs hereafter) are studied as a diagnostic of the velocity field of the BEL emitting gas in quasars. The ULQSOs are useful because they satisfy a very strict kinematical constraint, their parsec scale jets must be propagating within $12^{\circ}$ of the line of sight. We know the orientation of these objects with great certainty. The large BEL FWHM, $\sim 3,000 \mathrm{km/s} - 6,000 \mathrm{km/s}$, in ULQSOs tend to indicate that the BEL gas has a larger component of axial velocity (either random or in a wind) along the jet direction than previously thought.
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