Are BALQSOs Really Stuck in Overdrive?

Publikation: Bidrag til tidsskriftTidsskriftartikelForskningfagfællebedømt

Standard

Are BALQSOs Really Stuck in Overdrive? / Scoggins, B.; Brotherton, M. S.; Shang, Z.; Vestergaard, M.

I: Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Bind 36, 01.12.2004.

Publikation: Bidrag til tidsskriftTidsskriftartikelForskningfagfællebedømt

Harvard

Scoggins, B, Brotherton, MS, Shang, Z & Vestergaard, M 2004, 'Are BALQSOs Really Stuck in Overdrive?', Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, bind 36. <http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2004AAS...20514311S>

APA

Scoggins, B., Brotherton, M. S., Shang, Z., & Vestergaard, M. (2004). Are BALQSOs Really Stuck in Overdrive? Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, 36. http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2004AAS...20514311S

Vancouver

Scoggins B, Brotherton MS, Shang Z, Vestergaard M. Are BALQSOs Really Stuck in Overdrive? Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society. 2004 dec. 1;36.

Author

Scoggins, B. ; Brotherton, M. S. ; Shang, Z. ; Vestergaard, M. / Are BALQSOs Really Stuck in Overdrive?. I: Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society. 2004 ; Bind 36.

Bibtex

@article{5a80478ffc13470cb15ca393364ec46f,
title = "Are BALQSOs Really Stuck in Overdrive?",
abstract = "Much debate surrounds the nature of Broad Absorption Line Quasi-Stellar Objects (BALQSOs). It has been suggested that this quasar subclass, which shows distinctive blueshifted absorption troughs indicative a high-velocity outflow, is found only among quasars with the highest accretion rates. We have estimated black hole masses and accretion rates in 5190 quasars from the 2nd Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. These 5190 quasars, of which 349 are BALQSOs, have been selected from a narrow redshift range near z = 1.5, for which both Mg II and C IV emission lines are present in the SDSS spectral range. We answer the question, with overwhelming statistics, of whether or not BALQSOs are really stuck in overdrive. This research is funded by Wyoming NASA Space Grant Consortium, NASA Grant #NGT-40102 and by Wyoming NASA EPSCoR NASA Grant #NCC5-578.",
author = "B. Scoggins and Brotherton, {M. S.} and Z. Shang and M. Vestergaard",
year = "2004",
month = dec,
day = "1",
language = "English",
volume = "36",
journal = "American Astronomical Society. Bulletin",
issn = "0002-7537",
publisher = "American Astronomical Society",

}

RIS

TY - JOUR

T1 - Are BALQSOs Really Stuck in Overdrive?

AU - Scoggins, B.

AU - Brotherton, M. S.

AU - Shang, Z.

AU - Vestergaard, M.

PY - 2004/12/1

Y1 - 2004/12/1

N2 - Much debate surrounds the nature of Broad Absorption Line Quasi-Stellar Objects (BALQSOs). It has been suggested that this quasar subclass, which shows distinctive blueshifted absorption troughs indicative a high-velocity outflow, is found only among quasars with the highest accretion rates. We have estimated black hole masses and accretion rates in 5190 quasars from the 2nd Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. These 5190 quasars, of which 349 are BALQSOs, have been selected from a narrow redshift range near z = 1.5, for which both Mg II and C IV emission lines are present in the SDSS spectral range. We answer the question, with overwhelming statistics, of whether or not BALQSOs are really stuck in overdrive. This research is funded by Wyoming NASA Space Grant Consortium, NASA Grant #NGT-40102 and by Wyoming NASA EPSCoR NASA Grant #NCC5-578.

AB - Much debate surrounds the nature of Broad Absorption Line Quasi-Stellar Objects (BALQSOs). It has been suggested that this quasar subclass, which shows distinctive blueshifted absorption troughs indicative a high-velocity outflow, is found only among quasars with the highest accretion rates. We have estimated black hole masses and accretion rates in 5190 quasars from the 2nd Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. These 5190 quasars, of which 349 are BALQSOs, have been selected from a narrow redshift range near z = 1.5, for which both Mg II and C IV emission lines are present in the SDSS spectral range. We answer the question, with overwhelming statistics, of whether or not BALQSOs are really stuck in overdrive. This research is funded by Wyoming NASA Space Grant Consortium, NASA Grant #NGT-40102 and by Wyoming NASA EPSCoR NASA Grant #NCC5-578.

M3 - Journal article

VL - 36

JO - American Astronomical Society. Bulletin

JF - American Astronomical Society. Bulletin

SN - 0002-7537

ER -

ID: 229915944