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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

Understanding the composition and structure of the broad-line region (BLR) of active galactic nuclei (AGN) is important for answering many outstanding questions in supermassive black hole evolution, galaxy evolution, and ionization of the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-22 Joshua Moloney , J. Michael Shull

Broad Emission Lines are the most characteristic features of Active Galaxies, but the mechanism of creating a medium able to emit these intense lines is not quite clear. Observations clearly indicate that the motion of the material is…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-09-19 Bozena Czerny

We show that the recently observed suppression of the gap between the broad line region (BLR) and the narrow line region (NLR) in some AGN can be fully explained by an increase of the gas density in the emitting region. Our model predicts…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-11-17 T. P. Adhikari , A. Różańska , B. Czerny , K. Hryniewicz , G. J. Ferland

We propose a very simple physical mechanism responsible for the formation of the Low Ionization Line part of the Broad Line Region in Active Galactic Nuclei. It explains the scaling of the Broad Line Region size with the monochromatic…

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

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 origin of the broad emission line region (BELR) in quasars and active galactic nuclei is still unclear. I propose that condensations form in the warm, radiation pressure driven, accretion disk wind of quasars creating the BEL clouds and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-10-04 Martin Elvis

The strong broad emission lines in the optical and UV spectra of Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) are important for several reasons. Not only do they give us information about the structure of the AGN, their properties are now used to estimate…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Karen M. Leighly , Darrin Casebeer

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

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

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

The origin, geometry and kinematics of the broad line region (BLR) gas in quasars and active galactic nuclei (AGN) are uncertain. We demonstrate that clumpy biconical disc winds illuminated by an AGN continuum can produce BLR-like spectra.…

(abridged) We study the consequence of star formation (SF) in an self-gravity dominated accretion disk in quasars. The warm skins of the SF disk are governed by the radiation from the inner part of the accretion disk to form Compton…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 J. -M. Wang , P. Du , J. A. Baldwin , J. -Q. Ge , C. Hu , G. J. Ferland

We study orbit of a pressure-confined cloud in the broad-line region (BLR) of active galactic nuclei (AGNs) when the combined effects of the central gravity and anisotropic radiation pressure and the drag force are considered. Physical…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-02 Mohsen Shadmehri

The broad-line region (BLR) of active galactic nuclei (AGN) is an essential component, yet its small size keeps its origin, structure, and kinematics uncertain. Infrared interferometry with VLTI/GRAVITY is now resolving BLR-scale emission,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-03-12 Keiichi Wada , Tohru Nagao , Taro Shimizu , Daryl Joe D. Santos , Jinyi Shangguan , Richard Davies

Strong broad emission lines are the most important signatures of active galactic nuclei. These lines allowed to discover the cosmological nature of quasars, and at present these lines allow for convenient method of weighting the black holes…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 B. Czerny , K. Hryniewicz

The requirement of intermediate line component in the recently observed spectra of several AGNs points to possibility of the existence of a physically separate region between broad line region (BLR) and narrow line region (NLR). In this…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-04-05 T. P. Adhikari , K. Hryniewicz , A. Różańska , B. Czerny , G. J. Ferland

Broad-line regions (BLR) are one of the main components that constitute the phenomenological picture of active galaxies near the vicinity of the accreting supermassive black holes. Both theoretical and observational studies have shown that…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-11-13 Swayamtrupta Panda

Active galactic nuclei (AGN) are characterized by similar broad emission lines properties at all luminosities ($10^{39}$-$10^{47}$ erg s$^{-1}$). What produces this similarity over a vast range of $10^8$ in luminosity? Photoionization is…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-02-04 Alexei Baskin , Ari Laor , Jonathan Stern
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