Extreme BAL Quasars from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey
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The Sloan Digital Sky Survey has discovered a population of broad absorption line quasars with various extreme properties. Many show absorption from metastable states of Fe ii with varying excitations; several objects are almost completely absorbed bluewards of Mg ii; at 1
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