The Physical Nature of Polar Broad Absorption Line Quasars

Details The Physical Nature of Polar Broad Absorption Line Quasars The Physical Nature of Polar Broad Absorption Line Quasars

2007-04-18

arxiv.org/abs/0704.2407v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

To appear in ApJ Letters

Scientific paper

10.1086/518859

It has been shown based on radio variability arguments that some BALQSOs (broad absorption line quasars) are viewed along the polar axis (orthogonal to accretion disk) in the recent article of Zhou et al. These arguments are based on the brightness temperature, $T_{b}$ exceeding $10^{12} ^{\circ}$ K which leads to the well-known inverse Compton catastrophe unless the radio jet is relativistic and is viewed along its axis. In this letter, we expand the Zhou et al sample of polar BALQSOs to the entire SDSS DR5. In the process, we clarify a mistake in their calculation of brightness temperature. The expanded sample of high $T_{b}$ BALQSOS, has an inordinately large fraction of LoBALQSOs (low ionization BALQSOs). We consider this an important clue to understanding the nature of the polar BALQSOs. This is expected in the polar BALQSO analytical/numerical models of Punsly in which LoBALQSOs occur when the line of sight is very close to the polar axis, where the outflow density is the highest.

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