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Difference of $\alpha$-disks between Seyfert 1 galaxies and Quasars

Astrophysics 2014-10-13 v1

Abstract

In a previous paper (Bian & Zhao 2002), it was suggested that contamination to the luminosity of galactic nucleus from the host galaxies play an important role in determining parameters of the standard α\alpha disk for AGNs. Using the nuclear absolute B band magnitude instead of the total absolute B band magnitude, the central black hole masses, the accretion rates and the disk inclinations to the line of sight for 20 Seyfert 1 galaxies and 17 Palomar-Green (PG) quasars were recalculated. It was found that small value of α\alpha is needed in the accretion disk for Seyfert 1 galaxies compared with PG quasars. The difference of α\alpha maybe lead to the different properties between Seyfert 1 galaxies and Quasars. Furthermore, we found most of the objects in this sample are not accreting at super-Eddington rates when we adopted the nuclear optical luminosity in our calculation.

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@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0309702,
  title  = {Difference of $\alpha$-disks between Seyfert 1 galaxies and Quasars},
  author = {W. Bian and Y. Zhao},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0309702},
  year   = {2014}
}

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6 pages, 1 tables, accepted by Chin. J. Astron. Astrophys