التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
| العنوان: |
Measuring the AGN Sublimation Radius with a New Approach: Reverberation Mapping of Broad Line Polarization. |
| المؤلفون: |
Elena S. Shablovinskaya, Viktor L. Afanasiev, Luka Č. Popović |
| المصدر: |
Astrophysical Journal; 4/1/2020, Vol. 892 Issue 2, p1-1, 1p |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: |
ACTIVE galactic nuclei, SEYFERT galaxies, RADIUS (Geometry) |
| مستخلص: |
Here we give an observational method for measurements of the equatorial scattering region radius using variability in the polarized broad lines in Type 1 active galactic nuclei (AGNs). The polarization in broad lines of Type 1 AGNs is mostly caused by equatorial scattering, where specific features allow one to separate its contribution from the total polarized flux. We propose to monitor variability in the polarized line flux and find the time lag between the nonpolarized continuum and polarized broad line variability. The distance to the scattering screen can then be determined from the time delay. The method was, for the first time, applied to the observations of the Type 1 AGN Mrk 6, and we found that the size of the scattering region in this AGN is around 100 lt-days. That is significantly smaller than the dusty region size estimated by the infrared interferometric observations and also larger than known broad line region (BLR) size. This indicates that the scattering region lies between the BLR and the dusty region and could be used as a probe of the dust sublimation radius. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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