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An Extraordinary Scattered Broad Emission Line in a Type 2 QSO

G. D. Schmidt, P. S. Smith, C. B. Foltz, D. C. Hines

astro-pharXiv:astro-ph/0209277

Abstract

An infrared-selected, narrow-line QSO has been found to exhibit an extraordinarily broad Halpha emission line in polarized light. Both the extreme width (35,000 km/sec full-width at zero intensity) and 3,000 km/sec redshift of the line centroid with respect to the systemic velocity suggest emission in a deep gravitational potential. An extremely red polarized continuum and partial scattering of the narrow lines at a position angle common to the broad-line emission imply extensive obscuration, with few unimpeded lines of sight to the nucleus.

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