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Hubble Space Telescope STIS Ultraviolet Spectral Evidence of Outflow in Extreme Narrow-Line Seyfert 1 Galaxies. I. Data and Analysis* **

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, , Citation Karen M. Leighly and John R. Moore 2004 ApJ 611 107 DOI 10.1086/422088

0004-637X/611/1/107

Abstract

We present Hubble Space Telescope (HST) Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph observations of two extreme narrow-line Seyfert 1 galaxies (NLS1's), IRAS 13224-3809 and 1H 0707-495. The spectra are characterized by very blue continua; broad, strongly blueshifted high-ionization lines (including C IV and N V); and narrow, symmetric intermediate- (including C III], Si III], and Al III) and low-ionization (e.g., Mg II) lines centered at the rest wavelength. The emission-line profiles suggest that the high-ionization lines are produced in a wind and that the intermediate- and low-ionization lines are produced in low-velocity gas associated with the accretion disk or base of the wind. In this paper, we present the analysis of the spectra from these two objects; in a companion paper, we present photoionization analysis and a toy dynamical model for the wind. The highly asymmetric profile of C IV suggests that it is dominated by emission from the wind, so we develop a template for the wind from the C IV line. We model the bright emission lines in the spectra using a combination of this template and a narrow symmetric line centered at the rest wavelength. We also analyzed a comparison sample of Hubble Space Telescope spectra from 14 additional NLS1's and constructed a correlation matrix of emission-line and continuum properties. A number of strong correlations were observed, including several involving the asymmetry of the C IV line.

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  • Based on observations made with the NASA ESA Hubble Space Telescope, obtained at the Space Telescope Science Institute, which is operated by the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy, Inc., under NASA contract NAS5-26555. These observations are associated with proposal 7360.

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    Based on observations obtained at the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory, a division of the National Optical Astronomy Observatory, which are operated by the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy, Inc., under cooperative agreement with the National Science Foundation

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