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Spectropolarimetric observations of a number of Active Galactic Nuclei obtained using the SCORPIO-2 aperture focal reducer installed on the 6-m telescope of the Special Astrophysical Observatory of the Russian Academy of Sciences are used to estimate physical parameters of these objects. The measured polarization and its wavelength dependence are consistent with the expectations of a standard accretion-disk model taking into account the effect of Faraday depolarization over the mean free path of the emitted photons. Estimates of the magnetic field in the accretion disk near the innermost stable orbit and the spin of the accreting central black hole are obtained. It is concluded that supermassive black holes with standard accretion disks and equal magnetic and radiative pressures are primarily Kerr black holes.
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Original Russian Text © V.L. Afanas’ev, N.V. Borisov, Yu.N. Gnedin, S.D. Buliga, T.M. Natsvlishvili, M.Yu. Piotrovich, 2014, published in Astronomicheskii Zhurnal, 2014, Vol. 91, No. 10, pp. 824–832.
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Afanas’ev, V.L., Borisov, N.V., Gnedin, Y.N. et al. Spectral distribution of the polarized radiation from standard accretion disks in Active Galactic Nuclei: Observational analysis. Astron. Rep. 58, 725–732 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1063772914100011
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