High resolution study of associated C IV absorption systems in NGC 5548

Details High resolution study of associated C IV absorption systems in NGC 5548 High resolution study of associated C IV absorption systems in NGC 5548

1999-08-17

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9908179v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

21 pages, latex (aasms4 style), incluedes 4 ps figures. To appear in Astrophysical Journal

Scientific paper

10.1086/308214

We present the results of a careful analysis of associated absorption systems toward NGC 5548. Most of the well resolved narrow components in the associated system, defined by the Lyman alpha, C IV and N V profiles, show velocity separation similar (to within 10~\kms) to the C IV doublet splitting. We estimate the chance probability of occurrence of such pairs with velocity separation equal to C IV doublet splitting to be $6\times10^{-3}$. Thus it is more likely that most of the narrow components are line-locked with C IV doublet splitting. This will mean that the radiative acceleration plays an important role in the kinematics of the absorbing clouds. We build grids of photoionization models and estimate the radiative acceleration due to all possible bound-bound transitions. We show that the clouds producing absorption have densities less than $10^9 cm^{-3}$, and are in the outer regions of the broad emission line region (BLR). We note that the clouds which are line-locked cannot produce appreciable optical depths of O VII and O VIII, and hence cannot be responsible for the observed ionized edges, in the soft X-ray. We discuss the implications of the presence of optically thin clouds in the outer regions of the BLR to the models of broad emission lines.

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