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A Survey of QSO Emission Lines

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 July 2016

Beverley J. Wills
Beverley J. Wills*
Affiliation:
McDonald Observatory and Department of Astronomy, University of Texas, RLM 15.308, Austin, Texas 78712, U.S.A.

Abstract

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“Standard” photoionization models of the broad line region (BLR) consist of numerous small optically thick clouds of identical ionization, density, temperature and optical depth, moving under the influence of the gravity and radiation field of a 107–8 M⊙ black hole and confined by a high temperature gas. Such models have provided a good description of observed line strengths and widths with only very minor modification. Although photoionization remains the most important heating mechanism in the BLR, new observations point to a wider range of physical conditions and to clues about the geometric and dynamic arrangement of the emitting gas. I want to highlight the observations that have led us to this view.

Type
III. Spectral Line Studies
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 119: Quasars , 1986 , pp. 279 - 288
Copyright
Copyright © Reidel 1986 

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