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A Link Between Seyfert Emission-Line Widths and X-Ray Continuum Slopes

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

Th. Boile  and
W.N. Brandt
Th. Boile
Affiliation:
Max-Planck-Institut für Extraterrestrische Physik, Postfach 1603, D-85748 Garching, Germany
W.N. Brandt
Affiliation:
Institute of Astronomy, Madingley Road, Cambridge CB3 0HA, UK

Abstract

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This paper reports on AGN with extremely soft X-ray spectra observed with ROSAT. From their optical emission lines, these objects are classified as narrow-line Seyfert 1 galaxies (NLSl), almost all with extremely large Fe II/Hβ flux ratios and relatively narrow optical lines of hydrogen. NLSl have generally steeper soft X-ray continuum slopes than normal Seyfert 1s, and there may exist an anticorrelation between 0.1–2.4 keV continuum slope and the FWHM of the Hβ line. Objects with steep 0.1–2.4 keV continuum slopes and Hβ FWHM > 3000 km s−1 are clearly discriminated against by nature. When simple power-law models are fit to the data, photon indices reach values up to about 5, much higher than is usually seen in Seyfert 1s. Models with smaller-mass black holes and/or higher accretion rates show some promise to explain the relation between the FWHM of the Hβ line and the X-ray continuum slope. We further report evidence for persistent giant and rapid variability in the ultrasoft narrow-line Seyfert 1 galaxy IRAS 13224–3809.

Type
V. Emission Lines, Absorption Lines, the Continuum, and their Relationships
Information
International Astronomical Union Colloquium , Volume 159: Emission Lines in Active Galaxies: New Methods and Techniques , 1997 , pp. 248 - 251
Copyright
Copyright © Astronomical Society of the Pacific 1997

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