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关于AGN Akn 120中Fe II发射区的尺寸

On the size of the Fe II emitting region in the AGN Akn 120

Charles A. Kuehn, Jack A. Baldwin, Bradley M. Peterson, Kirk T. Korista

摘要:

我们提出了一个混响分析的强,可变的光学铁II的发射带的光谱中的Akn 120,一个低红移活动星系核,这是这样一个研究的最佳候选人之一。在几年的时间尺度上,Fe II线强度遵循连续强度的变化。然而,我们无法在任何时间尺度上测量这些Fe II线的清晰混响滞后时间。这是由于Fe II交叉关联函数的非常宽和平顶的性质,与H-β响应相比,H-β响应在时间上更急剧地局部化。虽然在300天响应时间的光变曲线中有一些暗示,但我们的统计分析并没有发现这样的特征。我们的结论是,光学Fe II发射不来自光电离供电的区域类似的H-β发射区域的大小,但我们不能肯定地说,它确实来自哪里。我们的研究结果通常是一致的,无论是从一个比H-β区大几倍的光致电离区的发射,或与其他一些手段加热的气体的发射,也许只是间接地响应连续变化。

英文摘要:

We present a reverberation analysis of the strong, variable optical Fe II emission bands in the spectrum of Akn 120, a low-redshift AGN which is one of the best candidates for such a study. On time scales of several years the Fe II line strengths follow the variations in the continuum strength. However, we are unable to measure a clear reverberation lag time for these Fe II lines on any time scale. This is due to the very broad and flat-topped nature of the Fe II cross correlation functions, as compared to the H-beta response which is much more sharply localized in time. Although there is some suggestion in the light curve of a 300-day response time, our statistical analysis does not pick up such a feature. We conclude that the optical Fe II emission does not come from a photoionization-powered region similar in size to the H-beta emitting region, but we cannot say for sure where it does come from. Our results are generally consistent either with emission from a photoionized region several times larger than the H-beta zone, or with emission from gas heated by some other means, perhaps responding only indirectly to the continuum variations.

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