Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astronomy
Scientific paper
Dec 1998
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1998aas...193.0615m&link_type=abstract
American Astronomical Society, 193rd AAS Meeting, #06.15; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 30, p.1254
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astronomy
Scientific paper
The bright, variable, Seyfert 1 galaxy NGC 5548 has been extensively studied at many wavelengths. It has been a target of reverberation mapping experiments in the optical and UV (Peterson et al. 1992, Clavel et al. 1991, Korista et al. 1995). These have led to the accurate determination of the physical size of the BELR. The UV spectrum also shows absorption lines (Shull & Sachs 1993, Mathur, Elvis & Wilkes 1995 (MEW95)). Recently, based on ASCA and HST FOS data, MEW95 showed that the ionizaed X-ray and UV absorption in NGC5548 is likely to originate in the same material. We have now obtained high resolution GHRS spectrum around the CIV line. We find that the absorption line splits into multiple velocity components. The X-ray absorber would be associated with one of these components. We also have a tentative evidence for inflow based on the redshifted absorption component. This is in accord with the radial infall in NGC 5548 found by Done & Krolik (1996) based on the kinematic model of the BELR.
Elvis Martin
Mathur Savita
Wilkes Belinda J.
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