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Is There a Scaling Law for the Size of the BELR in AGNs?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 August 2017

P M Gondhalekar
P M Gondhalekar*
Affiliation:
Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Space & Astyrophysics Group, Chilton OXON OX11 0QX, England United Kingdom

Abstract

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The spectra of active galactic nuclei (AGNs) are characterised by broad permitted emission lines. The relative intensities of these lines are roughly similar in spectra of galaxies of very different continuum luminosities. The most likely source of energy for the line emitting gas is photoionization by an energetic (non-stellar) radiation field.

Type
Part 2: BLR and Variability
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 134: Active Galactic Nuclei , 1989 , pp. 139 - 140
Copyright
Copyright © Kluwer 1989 

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