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The Disk Wind Model of the Broad Line Regions in Active Galactic Nuclei and Cataclysmic VariablesThis is the final progress report for our Astrophysics Theory Program (NRA 97-OSS12) grant NAG5-7723. We have made considerable progress on incorporating photoionization calculations with a 2.5D hydrodynamical code to model disk winds in AGNs. Following up on our simultaneous broad band monitoring campaign of the type I Seyfert galaxy NGC 5548, we have investigated the constraints imposed on models of accretion in Seyfert galaxies by their optical, UV, and X-ray spectral energy distributions (SEDs). Using results from thermal Comptonization models that relate the physical properties of the hot inner accretion flow to the thermal reprocessing that occurs in the surrounding colder thin disk, we find that we can constrain the central black hole mass, accretion rate and size scale of the hot central flow. We have applied our model to observations of Seyfert galaxies NGC 3516, NGC 7469 and NGC 5548. Our mass and accretion rate estimates for these objects roughly agree with those found using other methods.
Document ID
20020090770
Acquisition Source
Goddard Space Flight Center
Document Type
Contractor or Grantee Report
Authors
Begelman, Mitchell
(Colorado Univ. Boulder, CO United States)
Date Acquired
August 20, 2013
Publication Date
November 21, 2002
Subject Category
Astrophysics
Funding Number(s)
CONTRACT_GRANT: NAG5-7723
Distribution Limits
Public
Copyright
Work of the US Gov. Public Use Permitted.
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