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Non-blackbody disks can help explain inferred AGN accretion disk sizes
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dc.contributor.author | Hall, Patrick | |
dc.contributor.author | Sarrouh, Ghassan | |
dc.contributor.author | Horne, Keith | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2018-02-20T10:30:06Z | |
dc.date.available | 2018-02-20T10:30:06Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2018-02-20 | |
dc.identifier | 252040701 | |
dc.identifier | 1d3b8741-7787-4db9-a613-02b1fa618380 | |
dc.identifier | 85042730155 | |
dc.identifier | 000425306100016 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Hall , P , Sarrouh , G & Horne , K 2018 , ' Non-blackbody disks can help explain inferred AGN accretion disk sizes ' , Astrophysical Journal , vol. 854 , no. 2 , 93 . https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/aaa768 | en |
dc.identifier.issn | 0004-637X | |
dc.identifier.other | ArXiv: http://arxiv.org/abs/1705.05467v1 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/10023/12758 | |
dc.description.abstract | If the atmospheric density ρatm in the accretion disk of an active galactic nucleus (AGN) is sufficiently low, scattering in the atmosphere can produce a non-blackbody emergent spectrum. For a given bolometric luminosity, at ultraviolet and optical wavelengths such disks have lower fluxes and apparently larger sizes as compared to disks that emit as blackbodies. We show that models in which ρatm is a sufficiently low fixed fraction of the interior density ρ can match the AGN STORM observations of NGC 5548 but produce disk spectral energy distributions that peak at shorter wavelengths than observed in luminous AGN in general. Thus, scattering atmospheres can contribute to the explanation for large inferred AGN accretion disk sizes but are unlikely to be the only contributor. In the appendix section, we present unified equations for the interior ρ and T in gas pressure-dominated regions of a thin accretion disk. | |
dc.format.extent | 10 | |
dc.format.extent | 1704718 | |
dc.language.iso | eng | |
dc.relation.ispartof | Astrophysical Journal | en |
dc.subject | Accretion disks | en |
dc.subject | Galaxies: active | en |
dc.subject | Galaxies: individual (NGC 5548) | en |
dc.subject | Quasars: general | en |
dc.subject | QB Astronomy | en |
dc.subject | QC Physics | en |
dc.subject | NDAS | en |
dc.subject.lcc | QB | en |
dc.subject.lcc | QC | en |
dc.title | Non-blackbody disks can help explain inferred AGN accretion disk sizes | en |
dc.type | Journal article | en |
dc.contributor.sponsor | Science & Technology Facilities Council | en |
dc.contributor.institution | University of St Andrews. School of Physics and Astronomy | en |
dc.contributor.institution | University of St Andrews. St Andrews Centre for Exoplanet Science | en |
dc.identifier.doi | https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/aaa768 | |
dc.description.status | Peer reviewed | en |
dc.identifier.grantnumber | ST/M001296/1 | en |
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