No evidence for an Eddington-ratio dependence of X-ray weakness in BALQSOs

Abstract

Several works have studied the relation between X-ray, UV, and wind properties in broad absorption line quasars (BALQSOs), generally concluding that the formation of strong winds is tightly connected with the suppression of the ionizing EUV/X-ray emission. The Eddington ratio (${\lambda }_{Edd}$), which measures the accretion rate, is also known to be related with outflow and emission-line properties in the general quasar population. Moreover, models describing quasar accretion depend on ${\lambda }_{Edd}$, which can thus possibly affect the relative production of accelerating UV and ionizing EUV/X-ray radiation. In this work, for the first time, we investigated whether BALQSO X-ray properties are related with the Eddington ratio. We selected a sample of 30 BALQSOs with accurate measurements of black-hole mass and BAL properties from the literature, and we complemented it with 4 additional BALQSOs we observed with \xmm\, to populate the low and high Eddington-ratio regimes. We did not find evidence for a strong relation between ${\lambda }_{Edd}$ and X-ray suppression, which however shows a significant correlation with the strength of the UV absorption features. These findings are confirmed also by considering a sample of mini-BALQSOs collected from the literature.

arXiv comment8 pages, 2 figures, Accepted 2018 June 29. Received 2018 June 29; in original form 2018 April 25

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