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FeII emission in active galactic nuclei

C.M.Gaskell, N.Thakur, B.Tian, and A.Saravanan

arXiv:2112.06559

Introduction

Background

FeII in Galactic objects

FeII in 3C 273

Seven remarkable things about optical FeII emission

Relative strength

Strong object-to-object differences

Correlation with line widths

Correlation with radio type

Correlation with galaxy type

Correlation with the narrow-line region

Correlation with soft X-ray excess

How and where is FeII emission produced?

Is FeII emission caused by photoionization?

The structure of the BLR: the Gaskell, Klimek & Nazarova model

Photoionization modelling of FeII emission

Model parameters

Strength of optical FeII emission

Responsivities of FeII and Hβ

Predicted effective radii for FeII

Line widths

Reverberation mapping

Problem number one: FeII variability is reduced and smeared out because of the larger region size

Problem number two: Narrow-line Seyfert 1s are less variable than broad-line AGNs

Reverberation-mapping results

"Anomalies" in reverberation mapping responses

The FeII emitting region in context

Relationship to other low-ionization lines

Relationship to the surrounding dust

The microphysics of FeII emission

Physical processes

Turbulence and reddening

FeII Templates

Reddening

Eddington ratio: the driver of eigenvector 1

The cause of weak FeII

Metallicity

The weakening of Hβ

AGN downsizing: the cause of the correlations with radio properties and galaxy type

Some Future directions

Reverberation mapping

Modelling FeII emission from realistic BLRs

Causes of scatter in EV1

Dust and FeII

Downsizing

An "iron chronometer"?