Radiative Acceleration of Coronal Gas in Seyfert Nuclei

dc.creatorBinette, L.
dc.date1998-02-18
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dc.descriptionThe line ratios from coronal gas in Seyferts can be successfully fitted with photoionized clouds of high densities and low volume filling factor. The ionization parameter implied is sufficiently high that models must consider the effect of radiation pressure from the active nucleus. In spite of the nucleus gravitational force, radiation pressure is sufficiently strong to compress and radially accelerate the internally stratified gas clouds provided these contain small amounts of dust (~10% of solar neighborhood value). This radial acceleration could explain the blueshift of the coronal lines relative to systemic velocity without the need of invoking an ambient `pushing' wind. Embedded dust has the interesting effect of making the photoionized clouds marginally ionization bounded instead of matter bounded.
dc.description5 pages, 2 figures, uses mn.sty accepted for publication by MNRAS Letters file sent is tar.gz type
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9802244
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9802244
dc.identifierMon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc. 294 (1998) L47
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/12147
dc.subjectAstrophysics
dc.titleRadiative Acceleration of Coronal Gas in Seyfert Nuclei
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