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类星体中的黑洞质量和变率

Black hole mass and variability in quasars

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

摘要:

我们报告的一项研究,发现类星体的黑洞质量和变化幅度之间的正相关性。大约有100个z<0.75的类星体是通过将QUEST 1变率巡天的天体与斯隆数字巡天的宽线天体进行匹配而选出的。黑洞的质量估计与维里方法使用广泛的H β线,和变化的特点是从QUEST 1光变曲线。黑洞质量和变率幅度之间的相关性在99%或更好的水平上是显著的,并且似乎不是由通量有限样本固有的明显选择效应引起的。这是最明显的休息帧的时间滞后的顺序几个月高达约2年的QUEST 1最大时间分辨率。黑洞质量和变化幅度之间的相关性意味着质量越大的黑洞具有越大的百分比通量变化。超过2-3个数量级的黑洞质量,振幅增加约0.2磁。一个可能的解释是,更大的质量黑洞饥饿,并产生更大的流量变化,因为他们没有一个稳定的气体燃料流入。假设可变性来自吸积率的变化,Li & Cao [8]表明,与观测到的通量变化类似的通量变化是由于质量更大的黑洞具有更冷的吸积盘。

英文摘要:

We report on a study that finds a positive correlation between black hole mass and variability amplitude in quasars. Roughly 100 quasars at z<0.75 were selected by matching objects from the QUEST1 Variability Survey with broad-lined objects from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. Black hole masses were estimated with the virial method using the broad Hbeta line, and variability was characterized from the QUEST1 light curves. The correlation between black hole mass and variability amplitude is significant at the 99% level or better and does not appear to be caused by obvious selection effects inherent to flux-limited samples. It is most evident for rest frame time lags of the order a few months up to the QUEST1 maximum temporal resolution of about 2 years. The correlation between black hole mass and variability amplitude means that the more massive black holes have larger percentage flux variations. Over 2-3 orders of magnitude in black hole mass, the amplitude increases by approximately 0.2 mag. A likely explanation for the correlation 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. Assuming that the variability arises from changes in the accretion rate Li & Cao [8] show that flux variations similar to those observed are expected as a consequence of the more massive black holes having cooler accretion disks.

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