The size of broad-line regions of low-luminosity active galactic nuclei
@article{Xueguang2007TheSO, title={The size of broad-line regions of low-luminosity active galactic nuclei}, author={Zhang Xue-guang and Deborah Dultzin-Hacyan and Wang Ting-gui}, journal={Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society}, year={2007}, volume={374}, pages={691-696} }
We study the size of broad-line regions (BLRs) of low-luminosity active galactic nuclei (AGN), also called 'dwarf AGN',defined as having L Hα ≤ 10 41 erg s- 1 . We more than double the sample size analysed previously by Wang & Zhang. In this study we first confirm our previous result -that the sizes of BLRs of low-luminosity AGN are larger than those expected from the empirical relation R BLRs -L Hα valid for 'normal' AGN (Seyfert Is and quasars), except for objects with accretion rate m H…
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