Radiative filtering unifies broad-line phenomenology in active galactic nuclei

arXiv:2607.01479 · astro-ph.GA, astro-ph.HE, astro-ph.IM · Submitted 2026-07-01 · Read on arXiv

astro-ph.GA, astro-ph.HE, astro-ph.IM

Submitted: 2026-07-01

Updated: 2026-10-05

Comments: 12 pages, 5 figures, as Letter to Astrophysical Journal

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

Terminology

• AGN — 22× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Core — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Accretion Flows — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Accretion Physics — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Accuracy — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Anisotropy — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Dynamical regimes — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Failed Radiatively Accelerated Dusty Outflow — 1× in this paper
• Metallicity — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Trace — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

Sources

• Radiation-pressure instability is an artifact of constant- alpha closure. Implications for AGN disk tensions

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