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تسجيل مستخدم جديدThe Shape of the Big Blue Bump as Revealed by Spectropolarimetry
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R. Antonucci
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Thermal models for the quasar Big Blue Bump generally lead to bound-free continuum features, which may be in absorption or emission. Searches for Lyman edges attributable to quasar atmospheres (in particular accretion disk atmospheres) have been ambiguous at best, but various relativistic and non-LTE effects may make them hard to detect. The Balmer edge features tentatively predicted by such models might be easier to detect since theyd form farther out in the potential wells. These can be sought in certain cases using spectropolarimetry to remove the effects of atomic emission (i.e. the Small Blue Bump) from the spectrum. We do find apparent Balmer edges in absorption in several quasars using this method! Although the features we see are believable and apparently common, more data and more modeling are needed to verify that they are best interpreted as atmospheric Balmer edges.
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