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arxiv: astro-ph/9705053 · v1 · submitted 1997-05-08 · 🌌 astro-ph

Spectropolarimetry of FIRST 0840+3633

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We present Keck spectropolarimetry of a rare ``Iron Lo-BALQSO,'' FIRST 0840+3633. The continuum is 4% polarized near 2000 angstroms rest-frame, but falls to 2% at longer wavelengths, and maintains a relatively constant position angle of 50 degrees. The emission lines are unpolarized. The polarization increases up to 8% in the low-ionization absorption troughs of Mg II 2800 and Al III 1860. The polarization and its position angle vary in a complicated manner across the metastable Fe II absorption lines, suggesting that more than one mechanism is at work or that the system geometry is complex.

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