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The physical origin of the Broad Line Region in Active Galactic Nuclei is still unclear despite many years of observational studies. The reason is that the region is unresolved and the reverberation mapping results imply complex velocity…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-09-20 B. Czerny , Yan-Rong Li , K. Hryniewicz , S. Panda , C. Wildy , M. Sniegowska , J. -M. Wang , J. Sredzinska , V. Karas

In Failed Radiatively Accelerated Dusty Outflow (FRADO) model which provides the source of material above the accretion disk (AD) as an option to explain the formation mechanism of Broad Line Region (BLR) in AGNs, the BLR inner radius…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-06-05 Mohammad-Hassan Naddaf , Bozena Czerny , Ryszard Szczerba

It is know that most of the clouds producing associated absorption in the spectra of AGNs and quasars do not completely cover the background source (continuum + broad emission line region, BLR). We note that the covering factor derived for…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 R. Srianand , S. Shankaranarayanan

The dynamics of the Broad Line Region (BLR) in Active galaxies is an open question, direct observational constraints suggest a predominantly Keplerian motion, with possible traces of inflow or outflow. In this paper we study in detail the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-10-20 Mohammad-Hassan Naddaf , Bozena Czerny , Ryszard Szczerba

Since many years we know that dust in the form of the dusty-molecular torus is responsible for the obscuration in active galactic nuclei (AGN) at large viewing angles and thus for the classification of AGN. Recently, we gained some…

Galaxies with active galactic nuclei (AGN) exhibit broad emission lines as a key spectral feature. The shape of emission-line profiles depends on the complex dynamics of discrete clouds within a spatially extended region known as the Broad…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-10-08 M. H. Naddaf , M. L. Martinez-Aldama , D. Hutsemekers , D. Savic , B. Czerny

The effective size of Broad Line Region (BLR), so-called the BLR radius, in galaxies with active galactic nuclei (AGN) scales with the source luminosity. Therefore by determining this location either observationally through reverberation…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-04-07 Mohammad-Hassan Naddaf , Bozena Czerny , Ryszard Szczerba

The origin of the Broad Line Region (BLR) in active galaxies remains unknown. It seems to be related to the underlying accretion disk but an efficient mechanism is required to rise the material from the disk surface without giving too…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-11-23 Bozena Czerny , Pu Du , Jian-Min Wang , Vladimir Karas

The spectra of active galactic nuclei exhibit broad-emission lines that presumably originate in the Broad-Line Region (BLR) with gaseous-dusty clouds in a predominantly Keplerian motion around the central black hole. Signatures of both…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-06-01 Ana Laura Müller , Mohammad-Hassan Naddaf , Michal Zajaček , Bożena Czerny , Anabella Araudo , Vladimír Karas

We have developed the 2.5D version of the basic physically motivated 1D model of Czerny & Hryniewicz (2011), i.e. Failed Radiatively Accelerated Dusty Outflow (FRADO) model. This model is based on the idea that radiation pressure acting on…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-12-16 Mohammad-Hassan Naddaf , Bozena Czerny

The primary source of emission of active galactic nuclei (AGN), the accretion disk, is surrounded by an optically and geometrically thick dusty structure ("the so-called dusty torus"). The infrared radiation emitted by the dust is nothing…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-01-13 Marko Stalevski , Claudio Ricci , Yoshihiro Ueda , Paulina Lira , Jacopo Fritz , Maarten Baes

The Broad Line Region (BLR) in AGN is composed of dense gas ($\sim 10^{11}$ cm$^{-3}$) on sub-pc scale, which absorbs about 30 per cent of the ionising continuum. The outer size of the BLR is likely set by dust sublimation, and its density…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-12-20 Alexei Baskin , Ari Laor

Energetics considerations imply that the broad-line region (BLR) has a high covering factor. The absence of absorption from the BLR means that the BLR has to have a flattened distribution and be seen through a polar hole. The BLR is the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-07-21 C. Martin Gaskell , Rene W. Goosmann , Elizabeth S. Klimek

Based on the most recent QSO ultraviolet spectra, the covering factor of the clouds of the Broad Line Region (BLR) is about 30%, or larger. This value would imply that in at least 30% of the QSOs our line of sight crosses one, or more, BLR…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 R. Maiolino , M. Salvati , A. Marconi , R. R. J. Antonucci

We investigate orbital motion of spherical, pressure-confined clouds in the broad-line region (BLR) of active galactic nuclei (AGN). The combined influence of gravity of the central object and the non-isotropic radiation of the central…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-23 Fazeleh Khajenabi

Many studies have considered the roles of clouds, outflows, and turbulence in producing the broad emission and absorption lines in the spectra of active galactic nuclei (AGNs). However, these are often treated as separate or even competing…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-12-10 Tim Waters , Hui Li

Active galactic nuclei (AGN) are important drivers of galactic evolution; however, the underlying physical processes governing their properties remain uncertain. In particular, the specific cause for the generation of the broad-line region…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-11-06 James E. Owen , Douglas N. C. Lin

Broad emission lines are the most characteristic features in the spectra of active galaxies. They mostly show either a single-peaked or double-peaked profiles; and originate from a complex dynamics of the likely discrete clouds moving in a…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-07-20 Mohammad-Hassan Naddaf , Bozena Czerny

The location of warm dust producing the Mid-infrared (MIR) emission in Type 1 Active Galactic Nuclei (AGNs) is complex and not yet fully known. We explore this problem by studying how the MIR covering factor (CF_{MIR} =L_{MIR}/L_{bol})…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 Kai Zhang , Ting-Gui Wang , Lin Yan , Xiao-Bo Dong

The Bloated Stars Scenario proposes that AGN broad line emission originates in the winds or envelopes of bloated stars (BS). Its main advantage over BLR cloud models is the gravitational confinement of the gas and its major difficulty the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Tal Alexander , Hagai Netzer
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