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Properties of Warm Absorbers and Constraints from their Optical and UV Line Emission
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 April 2016
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We have studied the warm absorbers in several Seyfert galaxies using both PI and archival ROSAT data. The parameters that govern the emissivity of the ionized material, ionization parameter U, warm-absorber column density Nwa, and the source intrinsic power-law photon index Γx, are determined from X-ray spectral fits. These are then used to predict the expected IR to UV line emission of the ionized material in the individual objects. In particular, the possibility of a warm-absorber origin of one of the known emission-line regions in AGN is assessed. Good ‘candidate components’ are, e.g., the coronal-line region, and/or the high-ionization component of the NLR, or the component responsible for broad wings in the Balmer lines. All calculations have been carried out using the code CLOUDY (Ferland 1993).
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- V. Emission Lines, Absorption Lines, the Continuum, and their Relationships
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