Intensity of hydrogen lines in the spectra of moving media. II
Abstract
Sobolev's theory for media with line self-absorption (e.g., Seyfert galaxies) is used to calculate the intensities of hydrogen lines, assuming the stationary population of hydrogen-atom levels to be sustained by radiative and collisional mechanisms of heating and ionization. The central radiation source is characterized by a nonthermal spectrum Fnu = F0(nu/nu sub 0) exp -alpha, where alpha = 1, F0 = 1000 erg/sq cm s Hz for nu0 = 6.2 x 10 to the 14th Hz. The quantum yield from the medium is determined by the presence of a velocity gradient equal to 5 x 10 to the -11th/s. The F0 flux impinges on the internal boundary of the shell situated 10 to the 17th cm from the galactic center. I(ji)/I(Lyman-alpha) ratios are presented in tabular form for electron temperatures of (1-2.5) x 10 to the 4th K and electron densities of 10-billion to one-trillion per cu cm.
- Publication:
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Trudy Kazanskaia Gorodkoj Astronomicheskoj Observatorii
- Pub Date:
- 1983
- Bibcode:
- 1983TrKaz..48...53N
- Keywords:
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- H Lines;
- Line Spectra;
- Radiant Flux Density;
- Seyfert Galaxies;
- Sobolev Space;
- Astronomical Catalogs;
- Nonlinear Equations;
- Quantum Theory;
- Self Absorption;
- Velocity Distribution;
- Astrophysics