The Quasar Feedback Survey: Revealing the Interplay of Jets, Winds & Emission Line Gas in Type 2 Quasars with Radio Polarization

Abstract

We present results from a combined radio polarization and emission line study of five type 2 quasars at $z<0.2$ with the Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA) B-array at 5 GHz and Hubble Space Telescope (HST) [O III] observations. These five sources are known to exhibit close association between radio structures and ionized gas morphology and kinematics. Four sources (J0945+1737, J1000+1242, J1356+1026 and J1430+1339) show polarization in the current data. J1010+1413 is the unpolarized source in our sample. We detect $0.5-1\%$ fractional polarization in the radio cores and a high fractional polarization ($10-30\%$) in the lobes of these sources. The morphological, spectral and polarization properties suggest a jet origin for radio emission in J0945+1737, J1000+1242, J1010+1413 and J1430+1339 whereas the current data cannot fully discern the origin of radio emission (jet or wind) in J1356+1026. An anti-correlation between various polarized knots in the radio and [O III] emission is observed in our sources, similar to that observed in some radio-loud AGN in the literature. This suggests that the radio emission is likely to be depolarized by the emission-line gas. By modeling the depolarization effects, we estimate the size of the emission-line gas clouds to be $\sim (2.8\pm 1.7)\times 10^{-5}$ parsec and the amount of thermal material mixed with the synchrotron plasma to be $\sim (1.01\pm 0.08)\times 10^6$M${}_{\odot }$ in the lobe of J0945+1737 (which exhibits the most prominent polarization signature in its lobe). The current work demonstrates that the interplay of jets/winds and emission-line gas is most likely responsible for the nature of radio outflows in radio-quiet AGN.

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