Big Blue Bump and transient active regions in Seyfert Galaxies

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May 1997

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1997aipc..410.1318n&link_type=abstract

The fourth compton symposium. AIP Conference Proceedings, Volume 410, pp. 1318-1322 (1997).

Computer Science

Active And Peculiar Galaxies And Related Systems, Magnitudes And Colors, Luminosities, Infall, Accretion, And Accretion Disks

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An important feature of the EUV spectrum (known as the Big Blue Bump, hereafter BBB) in Seyfert Galaxies is the narrow range in its cutoff energy Ec from source to source, even though the luminosity changes by 4 orders of magnitude. Here we show that if the BBB is due to accretion disk emission, then in order to account for this ``universality'' in the value of Ec, the emission mechanism is probably optically thin bremsstrahlung. In addition, we demonstrate that the two-phase model with active regions localized on the surface of the cold disk is consistent with this constraint if the active regions are very compact and are highly transient, i.e., they evolve faster than one dynamical time scale.

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