Slim Disk Model for Narrow-Line Seyfert 1 Galaxies

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2000-05-08

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0005133v1

New Astron.Rev. 44 (2000) 435-437

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Contributed talk presented at the Joint MPE,AIP,ESO workshop on NLS1s, Bad Honnef, Dec. 1999, to appear in New Astronomy Revie

Scientific paper

10.1016/S1387-6473(00)00075-0

We argue that both the extreme soft X-ray excess and the large-amplitude variability of Narrow-Line Seyfert 1 galaxies (NLS1s) can be explained in the framework of the slim disk model. When the disk luminosity approaches the Eddington luminosity, the disk becomes a slim disk, exhibiting a multi-color blackbody spectrum with a maximum temperature, T(bb), of about 0.2 (M/1e5 solar masses)e(-1/4) keV, and size of the X-ray emitting region, r(bb), of about R(S) (the Schwarzschild radius). Furthermore, magnetic energy can be amplified up to a level exceeding radiation energy emitted from the disk, causing substantial variability in X-rays by consecutive magnetic flares.

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