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Free-free Emission and the Big Blue Bump

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 July 2016

Richard Barvainis*
Affiliation:
MIT/Haystack Observatory, Westford MA 01886 USA

Abstract

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Optically thin thermal emission may be a viable alternative to optically thick accretion disks for the origin of the optical/UV Big Blue Bump. In this contribution I summarize a number of points favoring the optically thin, or free-free, hypothesis. The free-free model is consistent with the most stringent quasar size and luminosity constraints provided sources are composed of a large number of very small and dense cloudlets or filaments.

Type
Poster Contributions: Emission Processes
Copyright
Copyright © Kluwer 1994