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Line-Driven Radiative Outflows In Luminous Quasars, Rebecca A. A. Bowler, Paul C. Hewett, James T. Allen, Gary J. Ferland
Line-Driven Radiative Outflows In Luminous Quasars, Rebecca A. A. Bowler, Paul C. Hewett, James T. Allen, Gary J. Ferland
Physics and Astronomy Faculty Publications
An analysis of ≃19 500 narrow ( ≲ 200 km s−1) C iv λλ1548.2,1550.8 absorbers in ≃34 000 Sloan Digital Sky Survey quasar spectra is presented. The statistics of the number of absorbers as a function of outflow velocity shows that in approximately two-thirds of outflows, with multiple C iv absorbers present, absorbers are line-locked at the 500 km s−1 velocity separation of the C iv absorber doublet; appearing as ‘triplets’ in the quasar spectra. Line-locking is an observational signature of radiative line-driving in outflowing material, where the successive shielding of ‘clouds’ of material in the outflow …