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AGN的硬X射线光变

Hard X-ray Variability of AGN

V. Beckmann, S. D. Barthelmy, T. J. -L. Courvoisier, N. Gehrels, S. Soldi, J. Tueller, G. Wendt

摘要:

目的:已知活动星系核在整个电磁波谱中是可变的。在这方面研究不足的能量域是20 keV以上的硬X射线范围。方法:利用Swift/BAT全天空巡天的前9个月资料,研究了44个最亮活动星系核的14 - 195 keV的光变。选择这些源是因为它们的检测显著性>10 sigma。我们测试的变异性,使用极大似然估计和分析的结构函数。结果:在不同的时间尺度上,活动星系核的吸收比未吸收的活动星系核变化更大。这同样适用于Seyfert 2和Seyfert 1对象的比较。正如预期的那样,耀变体显示出更强的可变性。在20天的时间尺度上,15%的非耀变体活动星系核的通量变化大于20%,30%的活动星系核的通量变化至少为10%。所有表现出强变率的非耀变体活动星系核都是L(14-195 keV)<1 E44 erg/sec的低光度天体。结论:关于变化模式,有一种趋势,未吸收或1型星系的变化小于吸收或2型物体在最硬的X射线。一个更坚实的反相关性之间的变化和光度,这已经观察到在软X射线,在紫外线,并在光学域。

英文摘要:

Aims: Active Galactic Nuclei are known to be variable throughout the electromagnetic spectrum. An energy domain poorly studied in this respect is the hard X-ray range above 20 keV. Methods: The first 9 months of the Swift/BAT all-sky survey are used to study the 14 - 195 keV variability of the 44 brightest AGN. The sources have been selected due to their detection significance of >10 sigma. We tested the variability using a maximum likelihood estimator and by analysing the structure function. Results: Probing different time scales, it appears that the absorbed AGN are more variable than the unabsorbed ones. The same applies for the comparison of Seyfert 2 and Seyfert 1 objects. As expected the blazars show stronger variability. 15% of the non-blazar AGN show variability of >20% compared to the average flux on time scales of 20 days, and 30% show at least 10% flux variation. All the non-blazar AGN which show strong variability are low-luminosity objects with L(14-195 keV) < 1E44 erg/sec. Conclusions: Concerning the variability pattern, there is a tendency of unabsorbed or type 1 galaxies being less variable than the absorbed or type 2 objects at hardest X-rays. A more solid anti-correlation is found between variability and luminosity, which has been previously observed in soft X-rays, in the UV, and in the optical domain.

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