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类星体MR2251-178的相关X射线/光学变率

Correlated X-ray/Optical Variability in the Quasar MR2251-178

P. Arévalo, P. Uttley, S. Kaspi, E. Breedt, P. Lira, I. M. McHardy

摘要:

活动星系核的辐射在很宽的能带上随时间变化很大,但是这种变化的起源,特别是带间的相关性,仍然没有很好的确定。在这里,我们提出的结果,我们的X射线和光学监测活动的类星体MR 2251 -178,涵盖了2.5年的时间。X射线2-10 keV通量与光学B、V和R带有很好的相关性,它们的涨落几乎是同时的,在任何一个方向上都有0天的延迟,但不超过4天。变化的幅度显示了一个有趣的行为:X射线中数十天的快速大幅度波动在光学波段中只有很小的对应物,而B波段中数百天的长期趋势比X射线更强。我们表明,简单的再处理模型,其中所有的光学可变性产生的变量X射线加热,不能同时解释不同的时间尺度上的差异变化幅度和X射线和光学波段之间的短延迟。我们解释的可变性和相关性,在光学厚吸积盘加日冕的情况下,作为调制X射线和光发射的内在吸积率变化的结果,再处理的X射线的吸积盘。

英文摘要:

Emission from Active Galactic Nuclei is known to vary strongly over time over a wide energy band, but the origin of the variability and especially of the inter-band correlations is still not well established. Here we present the results of our X-ray and optical monitoring campaign of the quasar MR2251-178, covering a period of 2.5 years. The X-ray 2-10 keV flux is remarkably well correlated with the optical B, V and R bands, their fluctuations are almost simultaneous with a delay consistent with 0 days and not larger than 4 days in either direction. The amplitude of variations shows an intriguing behaviour: rapid, large amplitude fluctuations over tens of days in the X-rays have only small counterparts in the optical bands, while the long-term trends over hundreds of days are stronger in the B band than in X-rays. We show that simple reprocessing models, where all the optical variability arises from the variable X-ray heating, cannot simultaneously explain the discrepant variability amplitudes on different time-scales and the short delays between X-ray and optical bands. We interpret the variability and correlations, in the optically-thick accretion disc plus corona scenario, as the result of intrinsic accretion rate variations modulating both X-ray and optical emission, together with reprocessing of X-rays by the accretion disc.

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