2003/11/11 by J. Chiang, James Chiang, Omer Blaes +2
Environmental Science · Mathematics · Physics and Astronomy · #Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations #Astrophysics (astro-ph) #FOS: Physical sciences #Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics #Statistics Education and Methodologies #astro-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/0311262
To appear in the proceedings of "AGN Physics with the SDSS", eds. G. T. Richards and P. B. Hall (San Francisco: ASP) (2004), 4 pages
arxiv created 2003/11/11 · openalex publication_date 2003/11/11 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01 · openalex created_date 2022/09/01 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
We model the spectral energy distribution of the type 1 Seyfert galaxies,\nfitting data from simultaneous optical, UV, and X-ray monitoring observations.\nWe assume a geometry consisting of a hot central Comptonizing region surrounded\nby a thin accretion disk. The properties of the disk and the hot central region\nare determined by the feedback occurring between the hot Comptonizing region\nand thermal reprocessing in the disk that, along with viscous dissipation,\nprovides the seed photons for the Comptonization process. The constraints\nimposed upon this model by existing multiwavelength data allow us to derive\nlimits on the central black hole mass, the accretion rate, and the radius of\nthe transition region between the thin outer disk and the geometrically thick,\nhot inner region in these objects.\n