your ID: 0056 
First Name: Michael 
Last Name: Brotherton 
Affiliation: University of Wyoming 

Title: Busting Myths about Broad Absorption Line Quasars
Authors: Michael Brotherton
Topic: 1 
Session: oral 
Abstract: Once upon a time (and perhaps still), many astronomers believed
broad absorption line (BAL) quasars to be normal quasars seen
edge-on, accreting at close to Eddington, and completely absorbed in
the soft X-rays (at least the low-ionization BAL quasars).  None
of these myths is true, and I will present evidence busting each.
New observations presented include spectropolarimetry, Chandra
spectroscopy, and statistical analysis of thousands of Sloan spectra.