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Revealing the Physical Driver of the Baldwin Effect: Gas Density in the Broad-Line Region
Wen-Qiang Liang, Zhi-Fu Chen, Rui-Jing Lu +8
The Baldwin effect --- the inverse correlation between the equivalent width of emission lines and the continuum luminosity in active galactic nuclei (AGNs) --- has been known for n…
Metal-strong Inflows at the Outer-galactic-scale of a Quasar
Qiguo Tian, Lei Hao, Yipeng Zhou +6
We present an analysis of the absorption-line system in the Very Large Telescope/Ultraviolet and Visual Echelle Spectrograph spectrum at a redshift of associat…
Discovery of a Damped Ly Absorber in the Circumnuclear Zone of the FeLoBAL Quasar SDSS J083942.11+380526.3
Shengmiao Wu, Xiheng Shi, Nibedita Kalita +8
SDSS J083942.11+380526.3 () is a FeLoBAL quasar that exhibits visible Balmer absorption lines (H), implying a significant population. The quasar also shows an arr…
A comparative study of ultraluminous infrared galaxies in the IRAS and SDSS Surveys
Shaohua Zhang, Zhijian Luo, Xiheng Shi +3
We present a comprehensive study of Ultraluminous Infrared Galaxies (ULIRGs), leveraging data from the IRAS Faint Source Catalogue (FSC) and the spectroscopic catalog in the Sloan…
The 2175 Å~ Bump Features in FeLoBAL Quasars: One Indicator of MW-like Dust in the Nuclear Region of Quasar
Shaohua Zhang, Jian Ge, Tuo Ji +8
To investigate the properties of dust in the nuclear region of quasars, we explored the extinction curves of the iron low-ionization broad absorption line (FeLoBAL) quasar SDSS J16…
Feeding the Accretion Disk from the Dusty Torus in a Reddened Quasar
Ge Li, Xiheng Shi, Qiguo Tian +4
We present here a detailed analysis of an unusual absorption line system in the quasar SDSS J122826.79+100532.2. The absorption lines in the system have a common redshifted velocit…
Mrk 1239: a Type-2 Counterpart of Narrow-line Seyfert-1?
Xiang Pan, Hongyan Zhou, Chenwei Yang +10
We present new spectrophotometric and spectropolarimetric observations of Mrk 1239, one of the 8 prototypes that defines type-1 narrow-line Seyfert galaxies (NLS1s). Unlike the oth…
Ultradense Gases beyond Dusty Torus in a Partially Obscured Quasar
Zhenzhen Li, Hongyan Zhou, Lei Hao +1
The co-evolution between black holes and galaxies suggests that feedback of active galactic nuclei influence host galaxies through ejecting radiative and kinetic energies to surrou…
Discovery of Metastable He I* 10830 Mini-broad Absorption Lines and Very Narrow Paschen Emission Lines in the ULIRG Quasar IRAS F11119+3257
Xiang Pan, Hongyan Zhou, Wenjuan Liu +7
IRAS F11119+3257 is a quasar-dominated Ultra-Luminous InfraRed Galaxy, with a partially obscured narrow-line seyfert 1 nucleus. In this paper, we present the NIR spectroscopy of F1…
Profile of and Variability in Double-Peaked Balmer Emission Lines in 3C 445
Shaohua Zhang, Hongyan Zhou, Xiheng Shi +2
We extract the multiple-epoch Balmer-line profiles of the heavily obscured quasar 3C 445 from the spectral curves in the literature, and analyze the emission-line profiles of the H…
Fast Inflow Directly Feeding Black Hole Accretion Disk in Quasars
Hongyan Zhou, Xiheng Shi, Weimin Yuan +21
Quasars are high-luminosity active galactic nuclei believed to be powered by accretion of interstellar matter onto a super-massive black hole (SMBH) therein. Most of the observed e…
SDSS J153636.22+044127.0 and its analogues: shocked outflows, not active binary black holes
Shaohua Zhang, Hongyan Zhou, Xiheng Shi +6
The binary emission-line system, particularly the binary broad-line emission system, is considered the most effective indicator of the black hole binary. A plausible example of suc…
A Strange EUV Emission: Scattered Continuum in the Lymann Limit Absorption Edge toward the Quasar SDSS J125903.26+621211.5?
Xiang Pan, Shaohua Zhang, Hongyan Zhou +5
We identified a peculiar proximate sub-damped Lya absorption system (sub-DLA) at z=3.234 with a neutral hydrogen column density of toward the…
Ultra-dense Broad-line Region Scale Outflow in Highly Reddened Quasar SDSS J145057.28+530007.6
Shaohua Zhang, Hongyan Zhou, Xiheng Shi +3
We report the discovery of highly reddening and hydrogen Balmer and metastable helium broad absorption lines in the quasar SDSS J145057.28+530007.6, based on the optical and near-i…
An Intercomparison Study of Two Proximate Damped Ly Systems with Residual Flux upon the Ly Absorption Trough toward Quasars
Xiaoyi Xie, Hongyan Zhou, Xiang Pan +6
In this paper, we present an intercomparison study of two quasars, SDSS J145618.32+340037.2 and SDSS J215331.50-025514.1, which have proximate damped Lya systems (PDLAs) with resid…
Searching for the Transit of the Earth--mass exoplanet Proxima~Centauri~b in Antarctica: Preliminary Result
Hui-Gen Liu, Peng Jiang, Xingxing Huang +21
Proxima Centauri is known as the closest star from the Sun. Recently, radial velocity observations revealed the existence of an Earth-mass planet around it. With an orbital period…
Reddening and He I* Absorption Lines in Three Narrow-line Seyfert 1 Galaxies
Shaohua Zhang, Hongyan Zhou, Xiheng Shi +6
We report the detection of heavy reddening and the He I* absorption lines at the AGNs' redshift in three Narrow-line Seyfert 1 galaxies: SDSS J091848.61+211717.0, SD…
Photoionization-driven Absorption Lines Variability in Balmer Absorption Line Quasar LBQS 1206+1052
Luming Sun, Hongyan Zhou, Tuo Ji +10
In this paper we present an analysis of absorption line variability in mini-BAL quasar LBQS 1206+1052. The SDSS spectrum demonstrates that the absorption troughs can be divided int…
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
Shaohua Zhang, Hongyan Zhou, Xiheng Shi +7
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 gra…
Random number generation with cosmic photons
Cheng Wu, Bing Bai, Yang Liu +14
Random numbers are indispensable for a variety of applications ranging from testing physics foundation to information encryption. In particular, nonlocality tests provide a strong…
The Redshifted Hydrogen Balmer and Metastable He I Absorption Line System in Mini-FeLoBAL Quasar SDSS J112526.12+002901.3: A Parsec Scale Accretion Inflow?
Xi-Heng Shi, Peng Jiang, Hui-Yuan Wang +4
The accretion of interstellar medium onto the central super massive black holes is widely accepted as the source of the gigantic energy released by the active galactic nuclei. But…
SDSS J163459.82+204936.0: A Ringed Infrared-Luminous Quasar with Outflows in both Absorption and Emission Lines
Wen-Juan Liu, Hong-Yan Zhou, Ning Jiang +9
SDSS J1634+2049 is a local (z = 0.1293) infrared-luminous quasar with LIR= 10^11.91 Lsun. We present a detailed multiwavelength study of both the host galaxy and the nucleus. The h…
Broad Balmer Absorption Line Variability: Evidence of Gas Transverse Motion in the QSO SDSS J125942.80+121312.6
Xiheng Shi, Hongyan Zhou, Xinwen Shu +6
We report on the discovery of broad Balmer absorption lines variability in the QSO SDSS J125942.80+121312.6, based on the optical and near-infrared spectra taken from the SDSS-I, S…
Strong Ly alpha Emission in the Proximate Damped Ly alpha Absorption Trough toward the Quasar SDSS J095253.83+011422.0
Peng Jiang, Hongyan Zhou, Xiang Pan +10
SDSS J095253.83+011422.0 (SDSS J0952+0114) was reported by Hall et al. (2004) as an exotic quasar at . In contrast to prominent broad metal--line emissions with F…