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Variability of Low-ionization Broad Absorption-line Quasars Based on Multi-epoch Spectra from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey

文献类型:期刊论文

作者Yi WM(易卫敏)1,2,3; Brandt, W. N.2,4,5; Hall, P. B.6; Vivek, M.2; Grier, C. J.2,5,7; Ak, N. Filiz8,9; Schneider, D. P.2,4; McGraw, S. M.2
刊名ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL SUPPLEMENT SERIES
出版日期2019-06-01
卷号242期号:2页码:23
ISSN号0067-0049
关键词galaxies: active quasars: absorption lines quasars: general
DOI10.3847/1538-4365/ab1f90
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文献子类Article
英文摘要

We present absorption variability results for 134 bona fide Mg II broad absorption-line (BAL) quasars at 0.46 less than or similar to z less than or similar to 2.3 covering days to similar to 10 yr in the rest frame. We use multiple-epoch spectra from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, which has delivered the largest such BAL variability sample ever studied. Mg II-BAL identifications and related measurements are compiled and presented in a catalog. We find a remarkable time-dependent asymmetry in the equivalent width (EW) variation from the sample, such that weakening troughs outnumber strengthening troughs, the first report of such a phenomenon in BAL variability. Our investigations of the sample further reveal that (i) the frequency of BAL variability is significantly lower (typically by a factor of 2) than that in high-ionization BALQSO samples, (ii) Mg II-BAL absorbers tend to have relatively high optical depths and small covering factors along our line of sight, (iii) there is no significant EW-variability correlation between Mg II troughs at different velocities in the same quasar, and (iv) the EW-variability correlation between Mg II and Al III BALs is significantly stronger than that between Mg II and C IV BALs at the same velocities. These observational results can be explained by a combined transverse-motion/ionization-change scenario, where transverse motions likely dominate the strengthening BALs while ionization changes and/or other mechanisms dominate the weakening BALs.

学科主题天文学 ; 星系与宇宙学 ; 星系天文学
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出版地TEMPLE CIRCUS, TEMPLE WAY, BRISTOL BS1 6BE, ENGLAND
WOS关键词SI IV ; C IV ; EMISSION ; OUTFLOWS ; TELESCOPE ; CATALOG
资助项目China Scholarships Council[201604910001] ; National Science Foundation of China[NSFC-11703076] ; National Science Foundation of China[U1631127] ; West Light Foundation of the Chinese Academy of Sciences[Y6XB016001] ; Chinese Academy of Sciences[U1631127] ; Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC)[2017-05983] ; National Research Council Canada ; TUBITAK[115F037] ; National Astronomical Observatories of China ; Chinese Academy of Sciences (Strategic Priority Research Program, The Emergence of Cosmological Structures)[XDB09000000] ; Special Fund for Astronomy from the Ministry of Finance ; Alfred P. Sloan Foundation ; National Science Foundation ; U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science ; Center for High-Performance Computing at the University of Utah ; CAS ; People's Government of Yunnan Province ; NSF[AST-1516784]
WOS研究方向Astronomy & Astrophysics
语种英语
出版者IOP PUBLISHING LTD
WOS记录号WOS:000471988200004
源URL[http://ir.ynao.ac.cn/handle/114a53/20332]  
专题云南天文台_丽江天文观测站(南方基地)
云南天文台_中国科学院天体结构与演化重点实验室
通讯作者Yi WM(易卫敏)
作者单位1.Yunnan Observatories, Kunming, 650216, People's Republic of China
2.Department of Astronomy & Astrophysics, The Pennsylvania State University, 525 Davey Lab, University Park, PA 16802, USA
3.Key Laboratory for the Structure and Evolution of Celestial Objects, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming 650216, People's Republic of China
4.Department of Physics, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, USA
5.Institute for Gravitation and the Cosmos, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, USA
6.Department of Physics and Astronomy, York University, Toronto, ON M3J 1P3, Canada
7.Steward Observatory, The University of Arizona, 933 North Cherry Avenue, Tucson, AZ 85721, USA
8.Faculty of Sciences, Department of Astronomy and Space Sciences, Erciyes University, 38039, Kayseri, Turkey
9.Astronomy and Space Sciences Observatory and Research Center, Erciyes University, 38039, Kayseri, Turkey
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Yi WM,Brandt, W. N.,Hall, P. B.,et al. Variability of Low-ionization Broad Absorption-line Quasars Based on Multi-epoch Spectra from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey[J]. ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL SUPPLEMENT SERIES,2019,242(2):23.
APA Yi WM.,Brandt, W. N..,Hall, P. B..,Vivek, M..,Grier, C. J..,...&McGraw, S. M..(2019).Variability of Low-ionization Broad Absorption-line Quasars Based on Multi-epoch Spectra from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey.ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL SUPPLEMENT SERIES,242(2),23.
MLA Yi WM,et al."Variability of Low-ionization Broad Absorption-line Quasars Based on Multi-epoch Spectra from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey".ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL SUPPLEMENT SERIES 242.2(2019):23.

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