Toward an Understanding of the Baldwin Effect
| dc.creator | Korista, Kirk | |
| dc.date | 1998-12-02 | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-07-07T02:29:25Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2026-07-07T02:29:25Z | |
| dc.description | After a short review of the quasar problem and what we can hope to learn from their emission line spectra, I discuss the current body of knowledge concerning quasar emission lines and their relationships to the local and ionizing continua. I propose a hypothesis that the Baldwin effect is due to a characteristic relationship between the continuum spectral energy distribution, the gas metallicity (Z), and the quasar luminosity. I suggest that such a relationship might arise naturally from a scenario involving massive galaxy formation and evolution driving the birth and evolution of the quasar central engines in terms of four fundamental parameters: M_bh, Mdot Mdot/M_bh, and Z. | |
| dc.description | 17 pages, LATeX (paspconf.sty), 4 encapsulated postscript figures. To appear in proceedings of "Quasars and Cosmology" (1998 May 18-22, La Serena, Chile), ASP Conference Series, ed. G. Ferland | |
| dc.identifier | https://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9812041 | |
| dc.identifier | http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9812041 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/13467 | |
| dc.subject | Astrophysics | |
| dc.title | Toward an Understanding of the Baldwin Effect | |
| dc.type | text |