Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2002-11-19
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
4 pages, 4 figures. Poster presented at "AGN5: Inflows, Outflows and Reprocessing around Black Holes". Como, 11-14 June 2002.
Scientific paper
We investigated the optical FeII emission in a sample of about 215 low-redshift AGN (quasars and luminous Seyfert 1 galaxies). We find that a scaled and broadened FeII template based on the I Zw 1 spectrum can satisfactorily model the FeII emission in almost all sources in our sample. We confirm that FWHM H$\beta$ and FeII$\lambda$4570 are strongly correlated. The correlation is different for sources with FWHM(H$\beta$) greater than or less than $\sim$4000 km s$^{-1}$. Sources with FWHM H$\beta$$\leq$ 4000 km s$^{-1}$ (Population A) show no difference between FWHM H$\beta$ and FeII while sources with FWHM(H$\beta$) $\geq$ 4000 km s$^{-1}$ (Population B) show FWHM FeII that is systematically smaller than FWHM H$\beta$. This may be telling us that FeII emission in Pop. B sources comes from only the outermost part of the H$\beta$\ emitting region where the degree of ionization is lowest.
Bongardo C.
Calvani Massimo
Marziani Paola
Sulentic Jack W.
Zamanov Radoslav
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