Dust inflated accretion disc as the origin of the Broad Line Region in Active Galactic Nuclei

Alexei Baskin, Ari Laor

The Broad Line Region (BLR) in AGN is composed of dense gas ($\sim 10^{11}$ cm${}^{-3}$) on sub-pc scale, which absorbs about 30 per cent of the ionising continuum. The outer size of…