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2015MNRAS.448.2900R - Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc., 448, 2900-2920 (2015/April-2)

Coronal-Line Forest AGN: the best view of the inner edge of the AGN torus?

ROSE M., ELVIS M. and TADHUNTER C.N.

Abstract (from CDS):

We introduce Coronal-Line Forest active galactic nuclei (CLiF AGN), AGN which have a rich spectrum of forbidden high-ionization lines (FHILs, e.g. [Fevii], [Fex] and [Nev]), as well as relatively strong narrow ( ∼ 300 km/s) Hα emission when compared to the other Balmer transition lines. We find that the kinematics of the CLiF emitting region are similar to those of the forbidden low-ionization emission-line (FLIL) region. We compare emission line strengths of both FHILs and FLILs to cloudy photoionization results and find that the CLiF emitting region has higher densities (104.5 < nH < 107.5/ cm3) when compared to the FLIL emitting region (103.0 < nH < 104.5/ cm3). We use the photoionization results to calculate the CLiF regions radial distances (0.04 < RCLiF < 32.5 pc) and find that they are comparable to the dust grain sublimation distances (0.10 < RSUB < 4.3 pc). As a result, we suggest that the inner torus wall is the most likely location of the CLiF region, and the unusual strength of the FHILs is due to a specific viewing angle giving a maximal view of the far wall of the torus without the continuum being revealed.

Abstract Copyright: © 2015 The Authors Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Royal Astronomical Society (2015)

Journal keyword(s): galaxies: active - quasars: emission lines - quasars: general - galaxies: Seyfert

VizieR on-line data: <Available at CDS (J/MNRAS/448/2900): table1.dat tablea1.dat tablea2.dat tablea3.dat tablea4.dat>

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