Reprocessed emission line profiles from dense clouds in geometrically thick accretion engines

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2000-09-17

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0009263v2

Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc. 324 (2001) 257

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

9 Pages LaTex, + Figs, submitted to MNRAS

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The central engines of active galactic nuclei (AGN) contain cold, dense material as well as hot X-ray emitting gas. The standard paradigm for the engine geometry is a cold thin disc sandwiched between hot X-ray coronae. Strong support for this geometry in Seyferts comes from the study of fluorescent iron line profiles, although the evidence is not ubiquitously air tight. The thin disc model of line profiles in AGN and in X-ray binaries should be bench marked against other plausible possibilities. One proposed alternative is an engine consisting of dense clouds embedded in an optically thin, geometrically thick X-ray emitting engine. This model is further motivated by studies of geometrically thick engines such as advection dominated accretion flows (ADAFs). Here we compute the reprocessed iron line profiles from dense clouds embedded in geometrically thick, optically thin X-ray emitting discs near a Schwarzchild black hole. We consider a range of cloud distributions and disc solutions, including ADAFs, pure radial infall, and bipolar outflows. We find that such models can reproduce line profiles similar to those from geometrically thin, optically thick discs and might help alleviate some of the problems encountered from the latter.

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