Strong Ly alpha Emission in the Proximate Damped Ly alpha Absorption
  Trough toward the Quasar SDSS J095253.83+011422.0
  SDSS J095253.83+011422.0 (SDSS J0952+0114) was reported by Hall et al. (2004)
as an exotic quasar at $z_{\rm em}=3.020$. In contrast to prominent broad
metal--line emissions with FWHM~9000 km/s, only a narrow Ly \alpha emission
line is present with FWHM~1000 km/s. The absence of broad Ly alpha emission
line has been a mystery for more than a decade. In this paper, we demonstrate
that this is due to dark Proximate Damped Ly alpha Absorption (PDLA) at $z_{\rm
abs}=3.010$ by identifying associated Lyman absorption line series from the
damped Ly beta up to Ly9, as well as the Lyman limit absorption edge. The PDLA
cloud has a column density of $\log N_{\rm H\,I}({\rm cm}^{-2})=21.8\pm0.2$, a
metallicity of [Zn/H]$>-1.0$, and a spatial extent exceeding the Narrow
Emission Line Region (NELR) of the quasar. With a luminosity of $L_{{\rm
Ly}\alpha}\sim10^{45}$ erg s$^{-1}$, the residual Ly alpha emission superposed
on the PDLA trough is of two orders of magnitude stronger than previous
reports. This is best explained as re-radiated photons arising from the quasar
outflowing gas at a scale larger than the NELR. The PDLA here, acting like a
natural coronagraph, provides us with a good insight into the illuminated gas
in the vicinity of the quasar, which are usually hard to resolve due to their
small size and "seeing fuzz" of bright quasars. Notably, SDSS J0952+0114
analogs might be easily omitted in the spectroscopic surveys of DLAs and PDLAs,
as their damped Ly alpha troughs can be fully filled by additional strong Ly
alpha emissions. Our preliminary survey shows that such systems are not very
rare. They are potentially a unique sample for probing strong quasar feedback
phenomena in the early universe.
