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类星体光变与黑洞质量

Quasar optical variability and black hole mass

M. Wold, M. S. Brotherton, Z. Shang

摘要:

为了研究类星体光紫外光变率对黑洞质量等基本物理参数的依赖关系,我们将QUEST 1变率巡天中的类星体与SDSS中的宽线天体进行了匹配。黑洞的质量和热光度估计斯隆光谱,和变化幅度从QUEST 1光变曲线。长期变异幅度(静止帧时间尺度0.5- 2年)被发现与黑洞质量在99%的显着性水平或更好。这意味着具有较大黑洞质量的类星体具有较大的通量变化百分比。偏秩相关分析表明,相关性不能解释明显的选择效应所固有的通量有限的样品。我们讨论的相关性是否是BH质量和吸积盘的热时间尺度之间的关系的表现,或者如果它是由于光学深度的变化与黑洞质量的吸积盘。也许最可能的解释是,质量越大的黑洞越饥饿,产生的流量变化越大,因为它们没有稳定的气体燃料流入。

英文摘要:

In order to investigate the dependence of quasar optical-UV variability on fundamental physical parameters like black hole mass, we have matched quasars from the QUEST1 variability survey with broad-lined objects from the SDSS. Black hole masses and bolometric luminosities are estimated from Sloan spectra, and variability amplitudes from the QUEST1 light curves. Long-term variability amplitudes (rest-frame time scales 0.5--2 yrs) are found to correlate with black hole mass at the 99% significance level or better. This means that quasars with larger black hole masses have larger percentage flux variations. Partial rank correlation analysis shows that the correlation cannot explained by obvious selection effects inherent to flux-limited samples. We discuss whether the correlation is a manifestation of a relation between BH mass and accretion disk thermal time scales, or if it is due to changes in the optical depth of the accretion disk with black hole mass. Perhaps the most likely explanation is that the more massive black holes are starving, and produce larger flux variations because they do not have a steady inflow of gaseous fuel.

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