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Is There a Relation Between Optical Emission Line Strengths and Continuum Shapes?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 August 2017

Belinda J. Wilkes
Affiliation:
Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, 60 Garden St., Cambridge, MA 02138
Martin Elvis
Affiliation:
Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, 60 Garden St., Cambridge, MA 02138
Jonathan McDowell
Affiliation:
Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, 60 Garden St., Cambridge, MA 02138

Abstract

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Until recently there have been very few measurements of the ionizing continuum in quasars. With the combination of Einstein X-ray slopes and IUE spectra for a sample of quasars, this continuum can now be better constrained. Here we take a preliminary look for relations between the shape of this continuum and the emission lines produced over the observed range of continuum properties.

Type
Part 3: X-rays and the Central Source
Copyright
Copyright © Kluwer 1989 

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