The size of BLRs of low luminous Active Galactic Nuclei

Abstract

We study the size of BLRs of low luminosity Active Galactic Nuclei, also called 'dwarf AGN', defined as having ($L_{H\alpha }\le 10^{41}\mathrm{erg}\cdot {\mathrm{s}}^{-1}$)). We more than double the sample size analyzed previously (Wang & Zhang 2003, hereafter Paper I). In this study we first confirm our previous result that the sizes of BLRs of low luminosity AGN are larger than the ones expected from the empirical relation $R_{BLRs}-L_{H\alpha }$ valid for 'normal' AGN: Seyfert 1s and quasars, except for the objects with accretion rate $\dot{m_{H\alpha }}>10^{-5.5}$. Second, we find a positive correlation between the line width of the narrow emission line (as tracer of velocity dipersion and thus bulge and black hole mass) and the size of BLRs for both normal and low luminosity AGN. In this paper we find a non-linear dependence of the BLRs sizes of low luminosity AGN on BH masses. We also show that their sizes of BLRs are more strongly dominated by the 'specific accretion rate' $\dot{m_{H\alpha }}$ defined as $\dot{m_{H\alpha }}=L_{H\alpha }/L_{Edd}$, than by the masses of their cetral black holes. As an expected result, the distance of emission regions of low-ionization broad H$\alpha$ of NGC 4395 should be consistent with the value from the empirical relation of $R_{BLRs}-L_{H\alpha }$, according to the high accretion rate.

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