Evolution of Broad-line Emission from Active Galactic Nuclei

Abstract

Apart from viewing-dependent obscuration, intrinsic broad-line emission from active galactic nuclei (AGNs) follows an evolutionary sequence: Type $1\to 1.2/1.5\to 1.8/1.9\to 2$ as the accretion rate onto the central black hole is decreasing. This spectral evolution is controlled, at least in part, by the parameter $L_{\mathrm{bol}}/M^{2/3}$, where $L_{\mathrm{bol}}$ is the AGN bolometric luminosity and $M$ is the black hole mass. Both this dependence and the double-peaked profiles that emerge along the sequence arise naturally in the disk-wind scenario for the AGN broad-line region.

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