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Fe Kα Lines of Seyfert I Galaxies: Thin-Torus Model

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 May 2016

Zhen Guo Ma
Zhen Guo Ma*
Affiliation:
National Astronomical Observatories, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100012, China

Abstract

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In order to elucidate the physics of the Fe Kα line emissions from Seyfert (-like) AGNs, we propose a thin-torus model in Kerr metric and fit it to three galaxies (i.e., NGC 3516, 3C 273, and NGC 5548). It is found that only spinning-BH galaxies radiate observable line flux from a region within tens of gravitational radii of a central BH. Besides, the observer's inclination angle is around 30°.

Type
Part 8 Active Galaxies and their Nuclei
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 214: High Energy Processes and Phenomena in Astrophysics , 2003 , pp. 275 - 280
Copyright
Copyright © Astronomical Society of the Pacific 2003 

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