Difference of $α$-disks between Seyfert 1 galaxies and Quasars

Abstract

In a previous paper (Bian & Zhao 2002), it was suggested that contamination to the luminosity of galactic nucleus from the host galaxies play an important role in determining parameters of the standard $α$ disk for AGNs. Using the nuclear absolute B band magnitude instead of the total absolute B band magnitude, the central black hole masses, the accretion rates and the disk inclinations to the line of sight for 20 Seyfert 1 galaxies and 17 Palomar-Green (PG) quasars were recalculated. It was found that small value of $α$ is needed in the accretion disk for Seyfert 1 galaxies compared with PG quasars. The difference of $α$ maybe lead to the different properties between Seyfert 1 galaxies and Quasars. Furthermore, we found most of the objects in this sample are not accreting at super-Eddington rates when we adopted the nuclear optical luminosity in our calculation.