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Probing the Environment of High-z Quasars Using the Proximity Effect in Projected Quasar Pairs

Jalan, Priyanka ; Chand, Hum ; Srianand, Raghunathan

The Astrophysical journal, 2019-10, Vol.884 (2), p.151 [Periódico revisado por pares]

Philadelphia: The American Astronomical Society

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  • Título:
    Probing the Environment of High-z Quasars Using the Proximity Effect in Projected Quasar Pairs
  • Autor: Jalan, Priyanka ; Chand, Hum ; Srianand, Raghunathan
  • Assuntos: Astrophysics ; Confidence intervals ; forest ; Intergalactic media ; Ionization ; Lyman alpha forest ; Occultation ; Proximity ; Quasars ; Red shift ; Sky surveys (astronomy) ; Spectral resolution
  • É parte de: The Astrophysical journal, 2019-10, Vol.884 (2), p.151
  • Notas: Galaxies and Cosmology
    AAS13371
  • Descrição: We have used spectra of 181 projected quasar pairs at separations ≤1.5′ from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data Release 12 in the redshift range of 2.5-3.5 to probe the proximity regions of the foreground quasars. We study the proximity effect both in the longitudinal and in the transverse directions, by carrying out a comparison of the Ly absorption lines originating from the vicinity of quasars to those originating from the general intergalactic medium at the same redshift. We found an enhancement in the transmitted flux within 4 Mpc to the quasar in the longitudinal direction. However, the trend is found to be reversed in the transverse direction. In the longitudinal direction, we derived an excess overdensity profile showing an excess up to r ≤ 5 Mpc after correcting for the quasar's ionization, taking into account the effect of low spectral resolution. This excess overdensity profile matches with the average overdensity profile in the transverse direction without applying any correction for the effect of the quasar's ionization. Among various possible interpretations, we found that the anisotropic obscuration of the quasar's ionization seems to be the most probable explanation. This is also supported by the fact that all of our foreground quasars happen to be type 1 AGNs. Finally, we constrain the average quasar's illumination along the transverse direction as compared to that along the longitudinal direction to be ≤27% (3 confidence level).
  • Editor: Philadelphia: The American Astronomical Society
  • Idioma: Inglês
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