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Modeling the Orientation of AGN

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 June 2010

Emily Down*
Affiliation:
NRC Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics, Victoria, Canada Email: ejd@astro.ox.ac.uk
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The orientation of nineteen 0.8< z < 2.3 radio-loud quasars was measured using two independent methods. First, Hα was observed in the near IR using ISAAC at the VLT. The complex Hα emission lines were fitted with a range of models, some including emission from a flattened, extended accretion disk following Chen & Halpern (1989). The models were compared using the Bayesian evidence, and the disk axis angles recovered. Second, models were fitted to the ~10 MHz to 20 GHz radio spectral energy distributions (SEDs) to recover the jet angles, assuming that the emission is comprised of a broken power law arising from the radio lobes plus a Doppler-boosted core.

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References

Chen, K. & Halpern, J. P. 1989, ApJ, 344, 115CrossRefGoogle Scholar