AGN
Emission Lines
•Hagai Netzer’s
section in Saas-Fee Advanced Courses
20, 1990, available online:
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•Classic textbook on
photoionization is AGN2 by Don Osterbrock, popular public tool is CLOUDY by Gary Ferland (http://thunder.pa.uky.edu/cloudy/ ). Section 9.1.2 in Combes et al.
Basically,
treat ionization state, heating/cooling balance,
and relate emission line ratios to metallicity, density,
ionizing continuum, etc.
Note “LOC” models (Baldwin et al. 1996).