Dusty, Radiation Pressure-Dominated photoionization II. Multiwavelength Emission Line Diagnostics for Narrow-Line Regions

Groves, Brent; Dopita, Michael; Sutherland, Ralph

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Dusty, Radiation Pressure-Dominated photoionization II. Multiwavelength Emission Line Diagnostics for Narrow-Line Regions

Date

2004

Authors

Groves, Brent

Dopita, Michael

Sutherland, Ralph

Publisher

IOP Publishing

Abstract

Seyfert narrow-line region (NLR) emission line ratios are remarkably uniform, displaying only ∼0.5 dex variation between galaxies, and even less within an individual object. Previous photoionization and shock models of this region were unable to explain