Evidence for an accelerating wind as the broad-line region in NGC 3516

Details Evidence for an accelerating wind as the broad-line region in NGC 3516 Evidence for an accelerating wind as the broad-line region in NGC 3516

2001-06-29

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0107002v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

16 pages and 4 diagrams; to appear in the Astrophysical Journal

Scientific paper

10.1086/322329

Spectroscopic data in wavelengths 900--3000A have been obtained in a low flux state of the nucleus of the Seyfert 1 galaxy NGC 3516. The line profiles show P Cygni characteristics, particularly in O VI 1032A, and are compared with data from an earlier higher state. The profiles are suggestive of, and consistent with, an accelerating wind driven by a disk continuum source, in which the ionisation radii have changed. This scenario may apply to the formation of other broad emission lines in AGN.

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