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Bardeen-Petterson Effect and Broad HI Profiles of Seyferts

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 May 2016

Rumen Bachev*
Affiliation:
Institute of Astronomy, BAS, 72 Tsar. Shose, 1784 Sofia, Bulgaria. Email: bachevr@astro.bas.bg

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A thin accretion disk could be not only the energy source of AGN but also the matter producing broad emission lines of Seyfert 1 type nuclei (Dumont & Collin-Souffrin, 1990 B). A possible mechanism for this is reprocessing of central hard X-ray radiation by the outer (at 102–5 RG, RG is the Schwarzschild radius), low-temperature regions of the disk. This mechanism is effective enough especially if the disk is a non-planar structure (a warped or twisted disk), when the outer parts could be directly seen from the centre. An accretion disk around a Kerr black hole could be twisted if the angular momentum of the accreting gas is initially not aligned with the rotation axis of the hole. Due to the differential Lense-Thirring precession of orbits around a Kerr black hole, a viscous disk is a steady but non-planar structure. This is the well-known Bardeen-Petterson effect (Bardeen & Petterson, 1975). Near the hole, at distances R>RBP, where RBP is the Bardeen-Petterson radius, the flow is aligned with the equatorial plane of the black hole, while at larger distances it is tilted to its initial orbital plane (Fig. 1).

Type
III. AGN Theory and Models
Copyright
Copyright © Astronomical Society of the Pacific 1999 

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