Variability of broad emission lines in QSOs Virtual Observatory Resource

Authors
  1. Woo S.C.
  2. Turnshek D.A.
  3. Badenes C.
  4. Bickerton S.
  5. Published by
    CDS
Abstract

We examine the variability of the high-ionization Ly{alpha} {lambda}1216 broad emission line (BEL) in a sample of 61 high-luminosity, high-redshift quasars observed at two epochs by the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. These bright objects lie in the redshift interval z=[2.5, 4.3] and have luminosities 3.4x10^45^<~{lambda}*L_{lambda}_<~3.4x10^46^erg/s at 1450{AA}. Utilizing improved spectrophotometric flux calibrations relative to nearby compact stars observed simultaneously, we are able to measure the flux changes in Ly{alpha} and the nearby continuum at two epochs. We find 20 objects that exhibit Ly{alpha} BEL flux variability at a significance level greater than 5{sigma} on time-scales ranging from days to years in the quasar rest frame.

Keywords
  1. quasars
  2. spectroscopy
Bibliographic source Bibcode
2013MNRAS.434.1411W
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https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/cat/J/MNRAS/434/1411
IVOA Identifier IVOID
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/434/1411
Document Object Identifer DOI
doi:10.26093/cds/vizier.74341411

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