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On the Physical Mechanism Underlying PC1 and Baldwin Effect in Quasars

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 June 2010

Xiao-Bo Dong ,
Ting-Gui Wang ,
Jian-Guo Wang ,
Xiaohui Fan ,
Huiyuan Wang ,
Hongyan Zhou  and
Weimin Yuan
Xiao-Bo Dong
Affiliation:
Center for Astrophysics, University of Science and Technology of China Email: xbdong@ustc.edu.cn
Ting-Gui Wang
Affiliation:
Center for Astrophysics, University of Science and Technology of China Email: xbdong@ustc.edu.cn
Jian-Guo Wang
Affiliation:
Center for Astrophysics, University of Science and Technology of China Email: xbdong@ustc.edu.cn Yunnan Observatory, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, Yunnan 650011, China
Xiaohui Fan
Affiliation:
Steward Observatory, The University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721, USA
Huiyuan Wang
Affiliation:
Center for Astrophysics, University of Science and Technology of China Email: xbdong@ustc.edu.cn
Hongyan Zhou
Affiliation:
Center for Astrophysics, University of Science and Technology of China Email: xbdong@ustc.edu.cn
Weimin Yuan
Affiliation:
Yunnan Observatory, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, Yunnan 650011, China
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Recent work (Baskin & Laor 2004; Dong et al. 2009a, b) suggests that the Eddington ratio (l ≡ L/LEdd) is the origin of all the significant first-order object-to-object variations of quasar spectral properties from the zeroth-order similarity of AGN spectra; specifically, this includes the PC1 of Boroson & Green (1992), the classic or inverse Baldwin effect (Baldwin 1977), and even blueshifting (i.e., blue asymmetry) of high-ionization emission lines (Dong et al. 2009c).

Keywords

galaxies: activequasars: emission linesquasars: general

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