Ultraviolet and Optical Emission-line Outflows in the Heavily Obscured Quasar SDSS J000610.67+121501.2: At the Scale of the Dusty Torus and Beyond

Abstract

Broad emission-line outflows of active galactic nuclei (AGNs) have been proposed for many years but are very difficult to quantitatively study because of the coexistence of the gravitationally-bound and outflow emission. We present detailed analysis of a heavily reddened quasar, SDSS J000610.67+121501.2, whose normal ultraviolet (UV) broad emission lines (BELs) are heavily suppressed by the Dusty Torus as a natural "Coronagraph", thus the blueshifted BELs (BBELs) can be reliably measured. The physical properties of the emission-line outflows are derived as follows: ionization parameter $U\sim 10^{-0.5}$, column density $N_{\mathrm{H}}\sim 10^{22.0}$ cm${}^{-2}$, covering fraction of $\sim 0.1$ and upper limit density of $n_{\mathrm{H}}\sim 10^{5.8}$ cm${}^{-3}$. The outflow gases are located at least 41 pc away from the central engine, which suggests that they have expanded to the scale of the dust torus or beyond. Besides, Lya shows a narrow symmetric component, to our surprise, which is undetected in any other lines. After inspecting the narrow emission-line region and the starforming region as the origin of the Lya narrow line, we propose the end-result of outflows, diffusing gases in the larger region, acts as the screen of Lya photons. Future high spatial resolution spectrometry and/or spectropolarimetric observation are needed to make a final clarification.

arXiv comment26 pages, 7 figures, submited to the ApJ

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