Narrow absorption lines with two observations of Sloan Digital Sky Survey

Abstract

We assemble 3524 quasars from Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) with repeated observations to search for variations of narrow C IV1548,1551 and Mg II2796,2803 absorption doublets in spectral regions shortward of 7000 Ang at the observed frame, which corresponds to time-scales of about 150 ~ 2643 days at quasar rest frame. In these quasar spectra, we detect 3580 C IV absorption systems with z_{abs} = 1.5188 ~ 3.5212, and 1809 Mg II absorption systems with z_{abs} = 0.3948 ~ 1.7167. In term of the absorber velocity (beta) distribution at quasar rest frame, we find a substantial number of C IV absorbers with beta<0.06, which might be connected to the absorptions of quasar outflows. The outflow absorptions peak at v~2000 km/s and drop rapidly below the peak value. Among 3580 C IV absorption systems, 52 systems (~ 1.5%) show obvious variations in equivalent widths at the absorber rest frame (Wr): 16 enhanced, 16 emerged, 12 weaken, and 8 disappeared systems, respectively. We find that changes in Wr548 are neither related to time-scales of the two SDSS observations, nor to absorber velocities at the quasar rest frame. Variable absorptions in low-ionization species are important to constraint the physical conditions of absorbing gas. There are two variable Mg II absorption systems measured from SDSS spectra detected by Hacker et al. However, in our Mg II$ absorption sample, we find that neither shows variable absorption with confident levels of >4sigma for lambda2796 lines and >3sigma for lambda2803 lines.

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