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Titolo: | HST unveils a compact mildly relativistic broad-line region in the candidate true type 2 NGC 3147 | Autori: | BIANCHI, STEFANO Antonucci, Robert CAPETTI, Alessandro Chiaberge, Marco Laor, Ari BASSANI, LOREDANA Carrera, Francisco J. LA FRANCA, FABIO Marinucci, Andrea Matt, Giorgio MIDDEI, RICCARDO PANESSA, Francesca |
Data pubblicazione: | 2019 | Rivista: | MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY | Numero: | 488 | Fascicolo: | 1 | Da pagina:: | L1 | Abstract: | NGC 3147 has been considered the best case of a true type 2 AGN: an unobscured AGN, based on the unabsorbed compact X-ray continuum, which lacks a broad-line region (BLR). However, the very low luminosity of NGC 3147 implies a compact BLR, which produces very broad lines, hard to detect against the dominant background host galaxy. Narrow (0.1 arcsec × 0.1 arcsec) slit HST spectroscopy allowed us to exclude most of the host galaxy light, and revealed an H α line with an extremely broad base (FWZI{∼ }27 000 km s<SUP>-1</SUP>). The line profile shows a steep cut-off blue wing and an extended red wing, which match the signature of a mildly relativistic thin accretion disc line profile. It is indeed well fit with a nearly face on thin disc, at i ∼ 23<SUP>°</SUP>, with an inner radius at 77 ± 15 r<SUB>g</SUB>, which matches the prediction of 62^{+18}_{-14}r<SUB>g</SUB> from the R<SUB>BLR</SUB>-L<SUP>1/2</SUP> relation. This result questions the very existence of true type 2 AGN. Moreover, the detection of a thin disc, which extends below 100 r<SUB>g</SUB> in an L/L<SUB>Edd</SUB> ∼ 10<SUP>-4</SUP> system, contradicts the current view of the accretion flow configuration at extremely low accretion rates. | URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12386/29548 | URL: | https://academic.oup.com/mnrasl/article/488/1/L1/5522653 | ISSN: | 0035-8711 | DOI: | 10.1093/mnrasl/slz080 | Bibcode ADS: | 2019MNRAS.488L...1B | Fulltext: | open |
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