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Coronal-Line Forest AGN: the best view of the inner edge of the AGN torus?

Authors :
M. Rose
Martin Elvis
Clive Tadhunter
Publication Year :
2015

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

Details

Language :
English
ISSN :
00358711
Database :
OpenAIRE
Accession number :
edsair.doi.dedup.....45950a9f7217b7974b3c90c96ad72aba