Fitting improved accretion disk models to the multiwavelength continua of quasars and active galactic nuclei

Details Fitting improved accretion disk models to the multiwavelength continua of quasars and active galactic nuclei Fitting improved accretion disk models to the multiwavelength continua of quasars and active galactic nuclei

Nov 1989

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Astrophysical Journal, Part 1 (ISSN 0004-637X), vol. 346, Nov. 1, 1989, p. 68-100.

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

290

Accretion Disks, Active Galactic Nuclei, Astronomical Spectroscopy, Black Holes (Astronomy), Quasars, Gravitational Effects, Optical Thickness, Red Shift, Schwarzschild Metric, Seyfert Galaxies, X Ray Spectra

Scientific paper

Fits to the ultraviolet-optical-infrared spectra of 60 quasars and active galactic nuclei (AGNs) are investigated, using black hole accretion disk models. The disk is assumed to be geometrically thin and optically thick. The observed spectrum from a black hole accretion disk, rotating (Kerr) or nonrotating (Schwarzschild), is transformed by the geometric inclination effect, Doppler shifts, gravitational redshifts, and gravitational focusing. These effects alter the locally emitted fluxes and produce harder spectra for an observer at higher inclination angles. The relativistic corrections are much more significant in the Kerr geometry since the inner edge of the disk is much closer to the rotating black hole. A simple inverse relation between the inferred black hole mass and the assumed inclination angle was found in the Kerr case, while the inferred accretion rate (solar masses/yr) remains independent of the angle. In the Schwarzschild case, the ratio of the inferred accretion rate to the black hole mass remains roughly constant when the viewing angle changes. In both geometries, low-redshift Seyfert galaxies have relatively low accretion rates, only a few percent of their Eddington luminosities, while the most luminous quasars are accreting near their Eddington limits.

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