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类星体的光变:爱丁顿比和光变之间的联系?

On the variability of quasars: a link between Eddington ratio and optical variability?

B. C. Wilhite, R. J. Brunner, C. J. Grier, D. P. Schneider, D. E. Vanden Berk

摘要:

斯隆数字巡天(SDSS)对沿天球赤道的278平方度条纹进行重复扫描,平均每次对近8,000个光谱确认的类星体进行10次以上的观测。这些类星体中有超过2500个在红移范围内,使得CIV发射线在SDSS光谱中可见。利用这些CIV线的宽度和附近连续光谱的亮度,我们估计这些物体的黑洞质量。为了隔离黑洞质量和光度对我们数据集光度变化的影响,我们通过在这两个物理参数中进行分箱来创建几个子样本。通过比较这些仓中类星体的系综结构函数,我们能够再现著名的光度和变化之间的关系,现在表明,这种关系是独立的黑洞质量。此外,我们还发现了中心黑洞的质量和变化之间的相关性。通过结合这两个关系,我们确定爱丁顿比作为一个可能的驱动程序类星体的变化,最有可能是由于吸积效率的差异。

英文摘要:

Repeat scans by the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) of a 278 square degree stripe along the Celestial equator have yielded an average of over 10 observations each for nearly 8,000 spectroscopically confirmed quasars. Over 2500 of these quasars are in the redshift range such that the CIV emission line is visible in the SDSS spectrum. Utilising the width of these CIV lines and the luminosity of the nearby continuum, we estimate black hole masses for these objects. In an effort to isolate the effects of black hole mass and luminosity on the photometric variability of our dataset, we create several subsamples by binning in these two physical parameters. By comparing the ensemble structure functions of the quasars in these bins, we are able to reproduce the well-known anticorrelation between luminosity and variability, now showing that this anticorrelation is independent of the black hole mass. In addition, we find a correlation between variability and the mass of the central black hole. By combining these two relations, we identify the Eddington ratio as a possible driver of quasar variability, most likely due to differences in accretion efficiency.

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