Outflowing material in the CSS quasar 3C48: evidence of jet-cloud interaction?

We report the detection of a zabs=0.3654 associated absorption-line system in the UV spectrum of the CSS quasar 3C48. The absorbing material is blue shifted with respect to the quasar emission-line redshift, zem=0.3700, suggesting an outflow velocity of ~1000 km/s. We detect absorption lines over a range of ionization states from Ly-beta, Ly-gamma, CIV, NIV, SVI to OVI and possibly OIV and NeVIII. The kinematical properties of the absorption-line system are similar to the blue-shifted emission line gas seen in [OIII]\lambda5007 (Chatzichristou, Vanderriest & Jaffe 1999), which is believed to have interacted with the radio jet. We study the properties of the absorbing material using CLOUDY and find that photoionization models with Solar abundance ratios (with overall metallicity in the range 0.1

Keywords:

• Photoionization
• Quasar
• Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope
• Active galactic nucleus
• Astrophysics
• Spectral line
• Metallicity
• Physics
• Redshift
• Emission spectrum

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