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The innermost parts of powerful jets in active galactic nuclei are surrounded by dense, high-velocity clouds from the broad-line region, which may penetrate into the jet and lead to the formation of a strong shock. Such jet-cloud…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-03-20 S. del Palacio , V. Bosch-Ramon , G. E. Romero

A significant number of tidal disruption events (TDEs) radiate primarily at optical and ultraviolet (UV) wavelengths, with only weak soft X-ray components. One model for this optical excess proposes that thermal X-ray emission from a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-01-19 Edward J. Parkinson , Christian Knigge , James H. Matthews , Knox S. Long , Nick Higginbottom , Stuart A. Sim , Samuel W. Mangham

In our previous work, we applied the ICCF-Cut method to the continuum reverberation mapping (CRM) of six active galactic nuclei (AGNs) based on the published Swift data. Extending this work, we perform a systematic AGN CRM study utilizing…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-11-11 Chi-Zhuo Wang , Xue-Bing Wu , Yuanzhe Jiang , Qinchun Ma , Huapeng Gu , Yuhan Wen

This paper investigates the observational appearances of an inner extremal regular black hole(IERBH) illuminated by various types of accretion models. The study reveals that when the BH is illuminated by specific accretion flows, the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-12-31 Dan Zhang , Guoyang Fu , Xi-Jing Wang , Qiyuan Pan , Xiao-Mei Kuang , Jian-Pin Wu

The ultraviolet/optical continuum of quasars is thought to be from an accretion flow around a supermassive black hole, and it dominates the radiative output of quasars. However, the nature of this emission, often called the Big Blue Bump,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Makoto Kishimoto , Robert Antonucci , Catherine Boisson , Omer Blaes

Ultraluminous X-ray sources (ULXs) with luminosities lying between ~3x10^{39} - 2x10^{40} erg/s represent a contentious sample of objects as their brightness, together with a lack of unambiguous mass estimates for the vast majority of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-23 Matthew Middleton , Lucy Heil , Fabio Pintore , Dominic Walton , Timothy Roberts

It is known that the blazar jet emissions are dominated by non-thermal radiation while the accretion disk jets are normally dominated by thermal emission. In this work, our aim is to study the connection between the two types of emission by…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-09-21 Hubing Xiao , Junhui Fan , Zhihao Ouyang , Liangjun Hu , Guohai Chen , Liping Fu , Shaohua Zhang

The presence of the warm absorber of considerable optical depth is seen in many AGN. We show that this medium may affect significantly the optical/UV spectrum of an AGN by backscattering a fraction of the total radiation flux towards the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Z. Loska , B. Czerny , R. Szczerba

The state of the matter that is obscuring a small circumnuclear region in AGN can be probed by observations of its broad emission lines. Infrared lines are particularly useful since they penetrate significant columns of obscuring matter,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 D. Lutz , R. Maiolino , A. F. M. Moorwood , H. Netzer , S. J. Wagner , E. Sturm , R. Genzel

We discuss dust properties in the interstellar medium (ISM) of nearby normal galaxies, by comparing observations in the ultraviolet (UV) with simulations by a radiative transfer model. The observed UV colours of nearby galaxies show a…

Bright-rimmed clouds form on the edges of H II regions affected by the high energy radiation from a central ionizing source. The UV radiation from the ionizing source results in compression and ionization causing either cloud disruption or…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-04-25 Archana Soam , G. Maheswar , Chang Won Lee , S. Neha , Kee-Tae Kim

Many high-state non-magnetic cataclysmic variables (CVs) exhibit blue-shifted absorption or P-Cygni profiles associated with ultraviolet (UV) resonance lines. These features imply the existence of powerful accretion disk winds in CVs. Here,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-12-02 James H. Matthews , Christian Knigge , Knox S. Long , Stuart A. Sim , Nick Higginbottom

We examine what the absorbed spectra of extra-galactic TeV gamma-ray sources, such as blazars, would look like in the presence of Lorentz invariance violation (LIV). Pair-production with the extra-galactic background light modifies the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-12-30 Uri Jacob , Tsvi Piran

Some tidal disruption events (TDEs) exhibit blueshifted broad absorption lines (BALs) in their rest-frame ultraviolet (UV) spectra, while others display broad emission lines (BELs). Similar phenomenology is observed in quasars and accreting…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-04-20 Edward J. Parkinson , Christian Knigge , Knox S. Long , James H. Matthews , Nick Higginbottom , Stuart A. Sim , Henrietta A. Hewitt

In this paper we explore the intermediate line region (ILR) by using the photoionisation simulations of the gas clouds present at different radial distances from the center, corresponding to the locations from BLR out to NLR in four types…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-09-22 T. P. Adhikari , A. Rozanska , K. Hryniewicz , B. Czerny , G. J. Ferland

Recent studies have shown that line profile distortions are commonly observed in gravitationally lensed quasar spectra. We investigate the effect of gravitational microlensing on quasar broad emission line profiles and their underlying…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-11-08 L. Braibant , D. Hutsemékers , D. Sluse , R. Goosmann

Extremely powerful emission lines are observed in the X-ray afterglow of several GRBs. The energy contained in the illuminating continuum which is responsible for the line production exceeds 10$^{51}$ erg, much higher than that of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 W. H. Gao , D. M. Wei

The determination of the size and geometry of the broad line region (BLR) in active galactic nuclei is one of the major ingredients for determining the mass of the accreting black hole. This can be done by determining the delay between the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-05-27 P. A. Rojas Lobos , R. W. Goosmann , J. M. Hameury , F. Marin

Recent hard X-ray spectroscopy of active galactic nuclei has strongly suggested that double-peaked, very broad Fe K emission arises from an accretion disk around the central engine. Model fitting of the observed Fe K emission line profile…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 S. Nishiura , T. Murayama , Y. Taniguchi

We revisit the limits of the level of the extragalactic background light (EBL) recently reported by the MAGIC collaboration based on the observed gamma-ray spectrum of the quasar 3C279, considering the impact of absorption of high-energy…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 F. Tavecchio , D. Mazin
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