Discovery of Newly Formed Broad Absorption Lines in a Radio-Loud Quasar

Abstract

We report a serendipitous discovery of broad absorption lines that were newly formed in the spectrum of the high-redshift, luminous radio-loud quasar TEX 1726 + 344, in a time interval of only 12 years. This is the first quasar showing a transition from narrow absorption lines to broad absorption lines. It also becomes one of the few radio-loud broad absorption line quasars. The gas cloud responsible for these broad absorption lines is derived to have parameters coinciding with those of the remnant of a tidally disrupted star.

6 pages, 1 figure, accepted for publication as a Letter in Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc

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