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Effect of an Attenuated Continuum in the BLR of AGNs

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 May 2016

L.S. Nazarova*
Affiliation:
EAAS, Universitetskij prosp.13, Moscow, 119899, Russia

Abstract

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The possibility of an attenuated continuum for the gas ionization in the BLR is discussed. It is shown that “line ratio” problem for the low ionization lines in NGC 5548 could be successfully solved when the attenuation by the column density Nh = 1022 cm−2 are taken into consideration.

Type
The Inner Regions of Galaxies
Copyright
Copyright © Astronomical Society of the Pacific 2001 

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