Iron is not Depleted in High-Ionization Nuclear Emission-Line Regions of Active Galactic Nuclei

Details Iron is not Depleted in High-Ionization Nuclear Emission-Line Regions of Active Galactic Nuclei Iron is not Depleted in High-Ionization Nuclear Emission-Line Regions of Active Galactic Nuclei

2002-12-27

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0212546v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

8 pages including 4 figures, to appear in The Astronomical Journal

Scientific paper

10.1086/368248

In order to examine whether or not high-ionization nuclear emission-line regions (HINERs) in narrow-line regions of active galactic nuclei are dusty, we focus on two high-ionization forbidden emission lines, [Fe VII]6087 and [Ne V]3426. We perform photoionization model calculations to investigate possible dependences of the flux ratio of [Fe VII]6087/[Ne V]3426 on various gas properties, in order to investigate how useful this flux ratio to explore the dust abundances in HINERs. Based on our photoionization model calculations, we show that the observed range of the flux ratio of [Fe VII]6087/[Ne V]3426 is consistent with the dust-free models while that is hard to be explained by the dusty models. This suggests that iron is not depleted at HINERs, which implies that the HINERs are not dusty. This results is consistent with the idea that the HINERs are located closer than the dust-sublimation radius (i.e., inner radius of dusty tori) and thus can be hidden by dusty tori when seen from a edge-on view toward the tori, which has been also suggested by the AGN-type dependence of the visibility of high-ionization emission lines.

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