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Hauptverfasser: Wu, Shengmiao, Shi, Xiheng, Kalita, Nibedita, Pan, Xiang, Tian, Qiguo, Ji, Tuo, Zhang, Shaohua, Dai, Xuejie, Jiang, Peng, Yang, Chenwei, Zhou, Hongyan
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author Wu, Shengmiao
Shi, Xiheng
Kalita, Nibedita
Pan, Xiang
Tian, Qiguo
Ji, Tuo
Zhang, Shaohua
Dai, Xuejie
Jiang, Peng
Yang, Chenwei
Zhou, Hongyan
author_facet Wu, Shengmiao
Shi, Xiheng
Kalita, Nibedita
Pan, Xiang
Tian, Qiguo
Ji, Tuo
Zhang, Shaohua
Dai, Xuejie
Jiang, Peng
Yang, Chenwei
Zhou, Hongyan
contents SDSS J083942.11+380526.3 ($z=2.315$) is a FeLoBAL quasar that exhibits visible Balmer absorption lines (H$α$), implying a significant $n=2$ population. The quasar also shows an array of absorption lines, including \oi, \niii, \feii, \mgii, \aliii\, to \civ\ and \nv. The high-ionization absorption lines such as \civ\ and \siiv\ are revealed by slightly blueshifted BAL troughs. The resonance doublets such as \mgii\ and \aliii\ are saturated but did not reached zero intensity which indicates that the BLR is partially covered. Overall, however, the absorption is predominantly from low-ionization \feii\ lines, emitted from ground and excited states up to at least 3.814 eV. This implies that the absorbing gas spans the hydrogen ionization front and extends into the partially ionized zone where neutral hydrogen is certainly present. Notably, the hydrogen line spectrum of the quasar shows no signature of expected Ly$α$ absorption. Instead, the line spectrum shows an unusual Ly$α$ emission characterized by a fully filled emission line spectrum which is a composite of a strong narrow core superposed on a weak broad base. Taking into account the effect of partial covering to BLR, we have extracted a strong DLA trough in Ly$α$ emission region. To fit the spectrum, we performed photoionized model calculations and compared them to the observations. We found that photoionization modeling using CLOUDY can successfully reproduce the main characteristics of the quasar spectrum, and the predicted neutral hydrogen column density arising from the clouds responsible for the low-ionization absorption provides a good match to the extracted DLA trough. This indicates that both the DLA and the low-ionization absorption arise from the same medium that is roughly collocated with the dusty torus.
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spellingShingle Discovery of a Damped Ly$α$ Absorber in the Circumnuclear Zone of the FeLoBAL Quasar SDSS J083942.11+380526.3
Wu, Shengmiao
Shi, Xiheng
Kalita, Nibedita
Pan, Xiang
Tian, Qiguo
Ji, Tuo
Zhang, Shaohua
Dai, Xuejie
Jiang, Peng
Yang, Chenwei
Zhou, Hongyan
Astrophysics of Galaxies
SDSS J083942.11+380526.3 ($z=2.315$) is a FeLoBAL quasar that exhibits visible Balmer absorption lines (H$α$), implying a significant $n=2$ population. The quasar also shows an array of absorption lines, including \oi, \niii, \feii, \mgii, \aliii\, to \civ\ and \nv. The high-ionization absorption lines such as \civ\ and \siiv\ are revealed by slightly blueshifted BAL troughs. The resonance doublets such as \mgii\ and \aliii\ are saturated but did not reached zero intensity which indicates that the BLR is partially covered. Overall, however, the absorption is predominantly from low-ionization \feii\ lines, emitted from ground and excited states up to at least 3.814 eV. This implies that the absorbing gas spans the hydrogen ionization front and extends into the partially ionized zone where neutral hydrogen is certainly present. Notably, the hydrogen line spectrum of the quasar shows no signature of expected Ly$α$ absorption. Instead, the line spectrum shows an unusual Ly$α$ emission characterized by a fully filled emission line spectrum which is a composite of a strong narrow core superposed on a weak broad base. Taking into account the effect of partial covering to BLR, we have extracted a strong DLA trough in Ly$α$ emission region. To fit the spectrum, we performed photoionized model calculations and compared them to the observations. We found that photoionization modeling using CLOUDY can successfully reproduce the main characteristics of the quasar spectrum, and the predicted neutral hydrogen column density arising from the clouds responsible for the low-ionization absorption provides a good match to the extracted DLA trough. This indicates that both the DLA and the low-ionization absorption arise from the same medium that is roughly collocated with the dusty torus.
title Discovery of a Damped Ly$α$ Absorber in the Circumnuclear Zone of the FeLoBAL Quasar SDSS J083942.11+380526.3
topic Astrophysics of Galaxies
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.17116