Evidence for an obscured broad-line region in the early-type radio galaxy IC 5063.
Abstract
We report the detection of strong, broad Hα emission seen in polarized flux from the early-type radio galaxy IC 5063. This suggests that the galaxy has a broad-line region which is obscured from our direct view, with the broad-line radiation being scattered into our line of sight by scatterers outside the obscuring regions. A model has been developed to estimate the dilution by starlight of the intrinsic polarization, and to correct for interstellar polarization. The FWHM of the broad Hα is 3400 km s^-1^, well within the range covered by typical Seyfert 1 galaxies.
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Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
- Pub Date:
- August 1993
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- Bibcode:
- 1993MNRAS.263..895I