Spectral Components in the Optical Emission of the Seyfert Galaxy NGC 5548 and the Comparison of Intrinsic Nuclear Spectra with Accreting Corona Model

Details Spectral Components in the Optical Emission of the Seyfert Galaxy NGC 5548 and the Comparison of Intrinsic Nuclear Spectra with Accreting Corona Model Spectral Components in the Optical Emission of the Seyfert Galaxy NGC 5548 and the Comparison of Intrinsic Nuclear Spectra with Accreting Corona Model

1997-06-16

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9706158v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

To appear in Acta Astron

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We study the extensively monitored Seyfert galaxy NGC 5548 and compare its nuclear emission with models of accretion disk with accreting corona. To obtain the intrinsic nuclear spectra from the observed spectra we had to estimate and subtract the contribution from circumnuclear components such as stars, the Balmer continuum and blended FeII lines, and the FC2 extended, featureless continuum. The true nuclear spectra were compared with a two parameter model of the accreting disk with an accreting corona, described by the mass of the central black hole and viscosity. The model that best fitted the data was for M_{BH}=1.4e8 solar masses and the viscosity parameter alpha=0.033. Such a low viscosity parameter was necessary to produce the sufficient amount of X-rays. The vertical outflow of mass from corona in the form of wind had to be neglected in our model in order to fit into high and low states that NGC 5548 underwent. The model also predicts the behavior of the overall opt/UV/X continuum of NGC 5548 during the whole five year campaign.

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