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Aims. We aim to establish a rough first prospect on the potential of certainbiorelevant solvents (water, ammonia and methane) to be present in liquid forminside the uppermost few meters of several modelled surfaces (rocky and icycrusts of various compositions) of hypothetical bodies orbiting active galacticnuclei (AGN), and investigate under which constraints this might occur.Methods. We adjust and average together X-ray spectra from a sample of 20 Type1 Seyfert galaxies to calculate a mean snowline of the sample used. Based onthis, we introduce variation of a hypothetical body's orbit across distancesbetween 10% and 100% of the snowline radius, and calculate a sub-surfaceattenuation within four different model surface compositions for each. Surfacecompositions are based on lunar soil and solvent ices found in the milky way'scircumnuclear region. We then use this as a continuous source term for athermal model. Example bodies are systematically investigated with sizesbetween 1/30 and 20 earth radii. Further outlier variations are also considered(such as the case of bound rotation of the body) to end up with a perspectiveof solvent phases under a wide slew of many different conditions. Results. Wefind that liquid solvents are possible under a multitude of parameters, withtemperature being the main constraint to liquid water and body size as well aspressure being the main constraint to liquid methane and ammonia. We furtherfind that these results, when adjusted for snowline distance, depend less onthe energy output of the central source within the Seyfert Type 1 AGN than onother parameters, such as body sizes and solvent properties.

Assessing the potential for liquid solvents from X-ray sources: considerations on bodies orbiting AGN