来自反响映射的多样化宽线区运动学特征
宇宙学与河外天体物理
2011-01-25 v2
摘要
对一项高采样率、多月的反响映射活动数据的详细分析(主要在MDM天文台进行,并辅以全球望远镜的观测)揭示,几个邻近活动星系核宽线区(BLR)内的Hβ发射区域表现出多种运动学行为。虽然该活动的主要目标是为几个相对低光度的活动星系核获得新的或改进的Hβ反响时延测量(在另一项工作中介绍),但我们也能明确地从一部分目标中重建速度分辨的反响信号。通过对NGC 3227、NGC 3516和NGC 5548核区观测到的光学连续谱和宽Hβ发射线变化的高频光谱监测,我们分别清晰地看到了外流、内落和维里化的BLR气体运动的证据。
引用
@article{arxiv.0908.0327,
title = {Diverse Broad Line Region Kinematic Signatures From Reverberation Mapping},
author = {K. D. Denney and B. M. Peterson and R. W. Pogge and A. Adair and D. W. Atlee and K. Au-Yong and M. C. Bentz and J. C. Bird and D. J. Brokofsky and E. Chisholm and M. L. Comins and M. Dietrich and V. T. Doroshenko and J. D. Eastman and Y. S. Efimov and S. Ewald and S. Ferbey and C. M. Gaskell and C. H. Hedrick and K. Jackson and S. A. Klimanov and E. S. Klimek and A. K. Kruse and A. Ladéroute and J. B. Lamb and K. Leighly and T. Minezaki and S. V. Nazarov and C. A. Onken and E. A. Petersen and P. Peterson and S. Poindexter and Y. Sakata and K. J. Schlesinger and S. G. Sergeev and N. Skolski and L. Stieglitz and J. J. Tobin and C. Unterborn and M. Vestergaard and A. E. Watkins and L. C. Watson and Y. Yoshii},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0908.0327},
year = {2011}
}
备注
5 pages, 3 figures, accepted for publication in ApJL