Geometrically Thin Sub-Eddington Active Galactic Nuclei Accretion Disks Show a Suppressed Lyman Edge
Abstract The observed UV continua of active galactic nuclei (AGN) generally lack a strong intrinsic H I Lyman edge predicted by classical optically thick accretion disk atmosphere models. We revisit this long-standing problem using our previous sub-Eddington ( L / L Edd ∼ 0.03) geometrically thin 3D accretion disk simu...
I. K. Kaul, Yan-Fei Jiang, Omer Blaes et al.
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