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最亮3CR射电源的X射线发射

The X-ray emission of the most luminous 3CR radio sources

M. Salvati, G. Risaliti, P. Veron, L. Woltjer

摘要:

我们研究了3CR星表中最亮射电源的X射线性质,以评估它们是否与最亮的射电宁静类星体相似,例如在光学光度的X射线归一化方面,或者在吸收柱密度分布方面。我们已经选择了(光学识别)3CR射电源,其178 MHz单色光度位于最高的三分之一箱。4个最明亮的物体已经在X射线中观察到。在剩下的16个中,我们用XMM-牛顿随机选择了4个,光学类型1和4个类型2。所有目标已被发现。光学到X射线的光谱指数,alphaox,可以计算出只有类型1的,并与以前的研究一致,被发现比类似光度的射电宁静类星体更平坦。然而,康普顿薄2型的吸收校正X射线光度系统地低于1型,通过一个因子使它们与射电宁静α ox一致。在有限的统计数据中,康普顿厚的物体似乎有一个比康普顿薄的物体更明亮的反射分量。在1型射电大声类星体中观察到的额外X射线分量是由于内在原因而被发射的,并且不像(固有各向同性)盘发射那样被吸收环面准直。如果流动开度角和多普勒聚束因子为1/5 - 1/7弧度,则额外分量可与相对论流出相关联。

英文摘要:

We investigate the X-ray properties of the most luminous radio sources in the 3CR catalogue, in order to assess if they are similar to the most luminous radio quiet quasars, for instance in the X-ray normalization with respect to the optical luminosity, or in the distribution of the absorption column density. We have selected the (optically identified) 3CR radio sources whose 178-MHz monochromatic luminosity lies in the highest factor-of-three bin. The 4 most luminous objects had already been observed in X rays. Of the remaining 16, we observed with XMM-Newton 4 randomly chosen, optical type 1s, and 4 type 2s. All targets have been detected. The optical-to-Xray spectral index, alphaox, can be computed only for the type 1s and, in agreement with previous studies, is found to be flatter than in radio quiet quasars of similar luminosity. However, the Compton thin type 2s have an absorption corrected X-ray luminosity systematically lower than the type 1s, by a factor which makes them consistent with the radio quiet alphaox. Within the limited statistics, the Compton thick objects seem to have a reflected component more luminous than the Compton thin ones. The extra X-ray component observed in type 1 radio loud quasars is beamed for intrinsic causes, and is not collimated by the absorbing torus as is the case for the (intrinsically isotropic) disk emission. The extra component can be associated with a relativistic outflow, provided that the flow opening angle and the Doppler beaming factor are 1/5 - 1/7 radians.

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