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Rapid Line Variations in High Luminosity AGN and Anisotropic Emission of the Optical/UV Continuum

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 August 2017

M V Penston ,
E Pérez  and
M Moles
M V Penston
Affiliation:
Royal Greenwich Observatory, HAILSHAM, E Sussex, BN27 1RP, UK
E Pérez
Affiliation:
Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias, La Laguna, Tenerife, Spain
M Moles
Affiliation:
Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucia, Granada, Spain

Abstract

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The emission lines of OVV quasars can vary significantly within a month, more rapidly than expected from photoionization models. This can be explained by anistropic continuum emission and joins several other lines of evidence suggesting anisotropic emission of the optical /uv continuum in AGN.

Type
Part 2: BLR and Variability
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 134: Active Galactic Nuclei , 1989 , pp. 85 - 87
Copyright
Copyright © Kluwer 1989 

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