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活动星系核中标准吸积盘模型的变率检验

Tests for Standard Accretion Disk Models by Variability in Active Galactic Nuclei

H. T. Liu, J. M. Bai, X. H. Zhao, L. Ma

摘要:

本文利用26个观测良好的天体的光变曲线对活动星系核的标准吸积盘模型进行了检验。变化的时间尺度是由最常见的定义的变化时间尺度和零交叉时间的自相关函数的光学光变曲线为每个源估计。两种方法测得的变化时间尺度是一致的。如果采用粘度参数$α\sim 0.1$的典型值,则所测得的光变时标与标准盘的热时标最为接近。如果允许$α$的范围从$\sim 0.03$到$\sim 0.2$,则测量的时间尺度与标准磁盘的热时间尺度一致。观测到的变率时间尺度与黑洞质量之间存在线性关系,这种线性关系与标准吸积盘模型的预期定性一致。ZDCF测量的不同波段之间的时间滞后大约是几天。NGC 4151和NGC 7469的测量时间滞后与标准吸积盘模型连续热后处理情况下估计的时间滞后略有一致。然而,NGC 5548和Fairall 9的测量时间滞后不太可能是连续热后处理的情况。我们的结果不太可能与活动星系核的标准吸积盘模型不一致,也可能有条件地支持它。

英文摘要:

In this paper, standard accretion disk models of AGNs are tested using light curves of 26 objects well observed for reverberation mapping. Time scales of variations are estimated by the most common definition of the variability time scale and the zero-crossing time of the autocorrelation function of the optical light curves for each source. The measured time scales of variations by the two methods are consistent with each other. If the typical value of the viscosity parameter $α\sim 0.1$ is adopted, the measured optical variability time scales are most close to the thermal time scales of the standard disks. If $α$ is allowed to range from $\sim 0.03$ to $\sim 0.2$, the measured time scales are consistent with the thermal time scales of the standard disks. There is a linear relation between the measured variability time scales and black hole masses, and this linear relation is qualitatively consistent with expectation of the standard accretion disk models. The time lags measured by the ZDCF between different bands are on the order of days. The measured time lags of NGC 4151 and NGC 7469 are marginally consistent with the time lags estimated in the case of continuum thermal reprocessing for the standard accretion disk models. However, the measured time lags of NGC 5548 and Fairall 9 are unlikely to be the case of continuum thermal reprocessing. Our results are unlikely to be inconsistent with or are likely to be conditionally in favor of the standard accretion disk models of AGNs.

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