Both quasars contain extended, predominantly photoionized soft X-ray emission.
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Tracing Winds from Supermassive Black Holes into Galactic Gas
Chandra and Hubble reveal contrasting relationships between photoionized X-ray-emitting gas and warm ionized gas in two luminous type 2 quasars.
![Observational composites of 2MASX J13003807+5454367 and FIRST J120041.4+314745, with Chandra X-ray emission in red, Hubble [O III] emission in green, and Hubble stellar continuum in blue.](/images/press/quasar-winds/hero-quasar-winds-clean.png)
2MASX J13003807+5454367FIRST J120041.4+314745Scientific context
Comparing highly ionized and warm ionized gas
Chandra/ACIS-S imaging spectroscopy is compared with Hubble ACS [O III] imaging and STIS kinematics in two luminous type 2 quasars.
X-ray enhancements are projected at positions with the highest measured [O III] centroid velocities and line widths.
The X-rays are more centrally concentrated and show no clear spatial correspondence with the largely rotational [O III] kinematics.
Measurement boundary. The kinematics are measured from [O III], not from the X-ray-emitting gas; the study does not directly measure energy or momentum transfer between the gas phases.
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