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Space Telescope and Optical Reverberation Mapping Project. VIII. Time Variability of Emission and Absorption in NGC 5548 Based on Modeling the Ultraviolet Spectrum
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posted on 2019-07-18, 12:39 authored by M Goad, G Kriss, et alWe model the ultraviolet spectra of the Seyfert 1 galaxy NGC 5548 obtained with the Hubble Space Telescope during the 6-month reverberation-mapping campaign in 2014. Our model of the emission from NGC
5548 corrects for overlying absorption and deblends the individual emission lines. Using the modeled spectra,
we measure the response to continuum variations for the deblended and absorption-corrected individual broad
emission lines, the velocity-dependent profiles of Lyα and C IV, and the narrow and broad intrinsic absorption
features. We find that the time lags for the corrected emission lines are comparable to those for the original
data. The velocity-binned lag profiles of Lyα and C IV have a double-peaked structure indicative of a truncated
Keplerian disk. The narrow absorption lines show delayed response to continuum variations corresponding
to recombination in gas with a density of ∼ 105
cm−3
. The high-ionization narrow absorption lines decorrelate from continuum variations during the same period as the broad emission lines. Analyzing the response of
these absorption lines during this period shows that the ionizing flux is diminished in strength relative to the
far-ultraviolet continuum. The broad absorption lines associated with the X-ray obscurer decrease in strength
during this same time interval. The appearance of X-ray obscuration in ∼ 2012 corresponds with an increase
in the luminosity of NGC 5548 following an extended low state. We suggest that the obscurer is a disk wind
triggered by the brightening of NGC 5548 following the decrease in size of the broad-line region during the
preceding low-luminosity state.
Funding
We thank R. Plesha for formatting and posting the highlevel data products in MAST. Support for HST program number GO-13330 was provided by NASA through a grant from the Space Telescope Science Institute, which is operated by the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy, Inc., under NASA contract NAS5-26555. M.M.F., G.D.R., B.M.P., C.J.G., and R.W.P. are grateful for the support of the National Science Foundation (NSF) through grant AST-1008882 to The Ohio State University. A.J.B. and L.P. have been supported by NSF grant AST1412693. E.M.C., E.D.B., L.M., and A.P. acknowledge support from Padua University through grants DOR1699945/16, DOR1715817/17, DOR1885254/18, and BIRD164402/16. M.C. Bentz gratefully acknowledges support through NSF CAREER grant AST-1253702 to Georgia State University. S.B. was supported by NASA through Chandra award no. AR7-18013X issued by the Chandra X-ray Observatory Center, operated by the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory for NASA under contract NAS8-03060. S.B. was also partially supported by grant HST-AR-13240.009. M.C. Bottorff acknowledges HHMI for support through an undergraduate science education grant to Southwestern University. K.D.D. is supported by an NSF Fellowship awarded under grant AST-1302093. R.E. gratefully acknowledges support from NASA under awards NNX13AC26G, NNX13AC63G, and NNX13AE99G, and ADAP award 80NSSC17K0126. G.J.F. and M.D. thank NSF (1816537), NASA (ATP 17-0141), and STScI (HST-AR-13914, HST-AR-15018) for their support, and the Huffaker scholarship for funding related travel. B.D.M. acknowledges support from the Polish National Science Center grant Polonez 2016/21/P/ST9/04025. J.M.G. gratefully acknowledges support from NASA under award NNH13CH61C. P.B.H. is supported by NSERC. K.H. acknowledges support from the UK Science and Technology Facilities Council through grant ST/J001651/1. M.I. acknowledges support from the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) grant, No
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Astrophysical Journal, 2019, 881 153Author affiliation
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