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Structure and Emission Line Spectrum of an X-ray Heated Accretion Disk in AGN

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 July 2016

Yuan-Kuen Ko  and
Timothy R. Kallman
Yuan-Kuen Ko
Affiliation:
Laboratory for High Energy Astrophysics, NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, USA
Timothy R. Kallman
Affiliation:
Laboratory for High Energy Astrophysics, NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, USA

Abstract

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We investigate the structure of an X-ray heated accretion disk in active galactic nuclei. It is found that X-ray heating can prevent the disk to be disrupted by its self-gravity under sufficient X-ray heating. The disk size can be two orders of magnitute larger than that limited by self-gravity of the disk without X-ray heating. An accretion disk corona will be formed by X-ray heating and can be a site for line emission. We present such emission line spectra which range from optical to hard X-ray energies and compare with the observational data.

Type
Poster Contributions: Disks Structure and Emission
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 159: Multi-Wavelength Continuum Emission of AGN , 1994 , pp. 484
Copyright
Copyright © Kluwer 1994