Published November 2019
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New Tools for Self-consistent Modeling of the AGN Torus and Corona
Abstract
The continuum emission typically observed in the X-ray spectra of active galactic nuclei (AGNs) is thought to arise from inverse-Compton scattering of blackbody photons from the accretion disk by mildly relativistic thermal electrons in a rarefied and relatively hotter corona. By fitting theoretical spectral models (e.g., Poutanen & Svensson 1996; Coppi 1999) to the observed shape of an AGN coronal continuum it is possible to constrain some of its physical parameters, such as the electron temperature and optical depth (e.g., Fabian et al. 2015; Middei et al. 2019).
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© 2019 American Astronomical Society. Received 2019 October 25; Accepted 2019 November 13; Published 2019 November 15. We acknowledge support from the black hole Initiative at Harvard University, funded by the John Templeton Foundation and the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation (grant GBMF8273). This work was also supported by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation and Chandra Theory grants TM8-19003X (J.A.G.) and TM9-20004X (M.B.).Attached Files
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- Harvard University
- John Templeton Foundation
- GBMF8273
- Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation
- Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
- TM8-19003X
- NASA
- TM9-20004X
- NASA
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