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ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL LETTERS
Volume 709, Issue 1, Pages L39-L43Publisher
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DOI: 10.1088/2041-8205/709/1/L39
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accretion, accretion disks; quasars: individual (SDSS J153636.22+044127.0)
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- W.M. Keck Foundation
- Gary and Cynthia Bengier
- Richard and Rhoda Goldman Fund
- National Science Foundation [AST-0607485, AST-0908886.]
- Direct For Mathematical & Physical Scien
- Division Of Astronomical Sciences [0908886] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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The quasar SDSS J153636.22+044127.0, exhibiting peculiar broad emission-line profiles with multiple components, was proposed as a candidate sub-parsec binary supermassive black hole system. More recently, imaging revealed two spatially distinct sources, leading some to suggest that the system was a quasar pair separated by similar to 5 kpc. We present Palomar and Keck optical spectra of this system from which we identify a third velocity component to the emission lines. We argue that the system is more likely an unusual member of the class of active galactic nuclei known as double-peaked emitters than a sub-parsec black hole binary or quasar pair. We find no significant velocity evolution of the two main peaks over the course of 0.95 yr, with a 3 sigma upper limit on any secular change of 70 km s(-1) yr(-1). We also find that the three velocity components of the emission lines are spatially coincident to within 0 ''.015 along the slit, apparently ruling out the double-quasar hypothesis.
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