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Coronal-Line Forest AGN: the best view of the inner edge of the AGN torus?
- Publication Year :
- 2015
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Abstract
- We introduce Coronal-Line Forest Active Galactic Nuclei (CLiF AGN), AGN which have a rich spectrum of forbidden high-ionization lines (FHILs, e.g. [FeVII], [FeX] and [NeV]), as well as relatively strong narrow ($\sim$300 km s$^{-1}$) H$\alpha$ emission when compared to the other Balmer transition lines. We find that the kinematics of the CLiF emitting region are similar to those of the forbidden low-ionization emission-line (FLIL) region. We compare emission line strengths of both FHILs and FLILs to CLOUDY photoionization results and find that the CLiF emitting region has higher densities (10$^{4.5}$ $<br />Comment: 22 pages, 14 Figures and 12 Tables. Resubmitted to MNRAS after minor corrections
- Subjects :
- Physics
Active galactic nucleus
Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
Balmer series
FOS: Physical sciences
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Torus
Photoionization
Astrophysics
Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics
Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies
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Space and Planetary Science
Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
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Emission spectrum
Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics
Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 00358711
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....45950a9f7217b7974b3c90c96ad72aba