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2004A&A...423..909P - Astronomy and Astrophysics, volume 423, 909-918 (2004/9-1)

Contribution of the disk emission to the broad emission lines in AGNs: Two-component model.

POPOVIC L.C., MEDIAVILLA E., BON E. and ILIC D.

Abstract (from CDS):

We present an investigation of the structure of the emission line region in a sample of 12 single-peaked Active Galactic Nuclei (AGNs). Using the high resolution Hβ and Hα line profiles observed with the Isaac Newton Telescope (La Palma) we study the substructure in the lines (such as shoulders or bumps) which can indicate a disk or disk-like emission in Broad Line Regions (BLRs). Applying Gaussian analysis we found that both kinds of emission regions, BLR and NLR, are complex. In this sample the narrow [OIII] lines are composites of two components; NLR1 which have random velocities from ∼200 to 500km/s and systematic velocities toward the blue from 20 to 350km/s, and NLR2 with smaller random velocities (∼100-200km/s) and a redshift corresponding to the cosmological one. The BLR also have complex structure and we apply a two-component model assuming that the line wings originate in a very broad line region (VBLR) and the line core in an intermediate line region (ILR). The VBLR is assumed to be an accretion disk and the ILR a spherical emission region. The model fits very well the Hα and Hβ line profiles of the AGNs.

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Journal keyword(s): galaxies: Seyfert - line: profiles - accretion, accretion disks

Simbad objects: 12

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