Abstract
ABSTRACT Here, we investigate the kinematics of the part of the broad-line region (BLR) in active galactic nuclei (AGNs) emitting H β and H α emission lines. We explore the widths and asymmetries of the broad H β and H α emission lines in a sample of high-quality (i.e. high signal-to-noise ratio) spectra of type-1 AGN taken from the Data Release 16 of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey in order to explore possible deviation from the gravitationally bound motion. To find only the broad component of H β and H α, we use the fantasy (Fully Automated pythoN Tool for AGN Spectra analYsis) code for the multicomponent modelling of the AGN spectra and for careful extraction of the broad emission-line parameters. We show that based on the broad-line profiles widths and asymmetries, the BLR gas emitting H β and H α lines follows similar kinematics, and seems to be virialized in our sample of type-1 AGN.
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