Abstract

It is commonly admitted that AGN contain a massive black hole fuelled most likely by an accretion disc. Several spectral features of the AGN, as the continuum excess in the UV and the broad line spectrum, involving different physical processes of emission (thermal for the UV continuum, photoionisation for the line spectrum) have been proposed as signatures of the disc. Physical parameters of the nucleus (as the mass of the black hole, M, the disc inclination, i, and accretion rate, Ṁ) are better determined when these two spectral features are modelled simultaneously. Here, we present results from the disc modelling (see) of the UV and broad Hβ emission of the 22 Seyfert 1 galaxies in a complete AGN sample selected in a hard X-ray survey.

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