Confronting a Thin Disk-wind Launching Mechanism of Broad-line Emission in Active Galactic Nuclei with GRAVITY Observations of Quasar 3C 273

Confronting a Thin Disk-wind Launching Mechanism of Broad-line Emission in Active Galactic Nuclei with GRAVITY Observations of Quasar 3C 273

Quasars show a remarkable degree of atomic emission-line broadening, an observational feature which, in conjunction with a radial distance estimate for this emission from the nucleus, is often used to infer the mass of the central supermassive black hole. The radius estimate depends on the structure...

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Main Authors: Kirk Long, Jason Dexter, Yixian Cao, Ric Davies, Frank Eisenhauer, Dieter Lutz, Daryl Santos, Jinyi Shangguan, Taro Shimizu, Eckhard Sturm
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: IOP Publishing 2023-01-01
Series:The Astrophysical Journal
Subjects:
Active galactic nuclei
Quasars
Reverberation mapping
Interferometry
Astronomy data modeling
Theoretical models
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ace4bb

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https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ace4bb

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