[143.08] The Spatial Extent of Line-Emitting Regions in the Cloverleaf

AAS 205th Meeting, 9-13 January 2005
Session 143 Quasars
Poster, Thursday, January 13, 2005, 9:20am-4:00pm, Exhibit Hall

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[143.08] The Spatial Extent of Line-Emitting Regions in the Cloverleaf

T. S. Hamilton (Shawnee State Univ.), D. A. Turnshek (Univ. of Pittsburgh), K.-H. Chae (Sejong Univ.), S. M. Rao (Univ. of Pittsburgh)

The Cloverleaf QSO (H1413+1143) is a four-component gravitationally-lensed broad absorption line (BAL) QSO with an emission redshift of z=2.55. HST broad-band imaging shows the four components to be unresolved and separated by about 1 arcsec. These broad-band images primarily show H1413+1143's compact continuum-emitting region. However, by imaging in the line-emitting regions we can hope to use the natural lens present in the Cloverleaf to study the sizes of these more spatially-extended regions. Here we report on the results of such observations.

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