Bibcode
Popovic, L. C.; Mediavilla, E.; Pavlovic, R.
Bibliographical reference
Serbian Astronomical Journal, Vol. 162, page 1 (2001)
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2000
Citations
19
Refereed citations
18
Description
The influence of merging effects in the central part of an Active
Galactic Nucleus (AGN) on the emission spectral line shapes are
discussed. We present a model of close binary Broad Line Region. The
numerical experiments show that the merging effects can explain double
peaked lines. The merging effects may also be present in the center of
AGNs, although they emit slightly asymmetric as well as symmetric and
relatively stable (in profile shape) spectral lines. Depending on the
black hole masses and their orbit elements such model may explain some
of the line profile shapes observed in AGNs. This work shows that if one
is looking for the merging effects in the central region as well as in
the wide field structure of AGNs, he should first pay attention to
objects which have double peaked lines.