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活动星系核的射电响度:宿主星系形态和自旋范式

Radio Loudness of AGNs: Host Galaxy Morphology and the Spin Paradigm

L. Stawarz, M. Sikora, J. -P. Lasota

摘要:

我们研究了活动星系核驱动的射电源的总射电光度如何依赖于它们的吸积光度和中心黑洞质量。我们发现活动星系核在射电响度-爱丁顿比平面上形成两个截然不同的序列。我们认为,这些序列标志着真正的上限的射电响度的两个不同的人口活动星系核:分别由椭圆和盘星系。这两个序列表现出相同的依赖性的爱丁顿比(增加减少爱丁顿比),这表明,另一个参数,除了吸积率必须发挥作用,在确定喷流生产效率在活动星系核的射电响度,这个参数是有关的主机星系的属性。揭示主机相关的无线电二分法打破了高吸积率的发光类星体的主要部分托管的椭圆星系是无线电安静。我们认为,圆盘星系和椭圆星系中活动星系核所能达到的射电响度之间的巨大差异可以用黑洞的自旋决定外流的功率的情况来解释,中心黑洞只能在早期类型的星系(主要合并后)中达到大的自旋,而不是(在统计意义上)在螺旋星系中。

英文摘要:

We investigate how the total radio luminosity of AGN-powered radio sources depends on their accretion luminosity and the central black hole mass. We find that AGNs form two distinct and well separated sequences on the radio-loudness - Eddington-ratio plane. We argue that these sequences mark the real upper bounds of radio-loudness of two distinct populations of AGNs: those hosted respectively by elliptical and disk galaxies. Both sequences show the same dependence of the radio-loudness on the Eddington ratio (an increase with decreasing Eddington ratio), which suggests that another parameter in addition to the accretion rate must play a role in determining the jet production efficiency in active galactic nuclei, and that this parameter is related to properties of the host galaxy. The revealed host-related radio dichotomy breaks down at high accretion rates where the dominant fraction of luminous quasars hosted by elliptical galaxies is radio quiet. We argue that the huge difference between the radio-loudness reachable by AGNs in disc and elliptical galaxies can be explained by the scenario according to which the spin of a black hole determines the outflow's power, and central black holes can reach large spins only in early type galaxies (following major mergers), and not (in a statistical sense) in spiral galaxies.

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