The vertical structure and ultraviolet spectrum of X-ray irradiated accretion disks in active galactic nuclei
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The Vertical Structure and Ultraviolet Spectrum of X-ray Irradiated Accretion Disks in Active Galactic Nuclei
Motivated by recent work indicating that the UV continuum in AGN may be produced by reradiation of energy absorbed from X-rays irradiating an accretion disk, we present a calculation of the vertical structures and ultraviolet spectra of X-ray irradiated accretion disks around massive non-rotating black holes. After finding the radial dependence of vertically-integrated quantities for these disk...
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عنوان ژورنال: Advances in Space Research
سال: 1998
ISSN: 0273-1177
DOI: 10.1016/s0273-1177(97)00622-4