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活动星系核X射线谱的吸积盘-日冕模型

An accretion disc-corona model for X-ray spectra of active galactic nuclei

Xinwu Cao

摘要:

活动星系核(AGN)的硬X射线发射被认为是来自冷吸积盘上方的热日冕。硬X射线谱指数与爱丁顿比有关,硬X射线辐射热校正因子L_bol/L_x随爱丁顿比的增大而增大。康普顿反射与硬X射线谱指数也存在相关性。这些观测特征为活动星系核的吸积盘-日冕模型提供了非常有用的约束。我们建立了一个吸积盘-日冕模型,并计算了冷盘中不同磁应力张量下的谱,其中假设日冕是由冷吸积盘中浮力不稳定性产生的磁场重联加热的.我们的计算表明,磁应力张量αp_gas不能解释所有这些观测特征,而αp_tot总是导致与爱丁顿比无关的常数L_bol/L_x。对具有α(p_gas p_tot)^(1/2)的盘冕系统的计算结果表明,硬X射线谱指数和硬X射线辐射热校正因子L_bol/L_x都随爱丁顿比的增大而增大,这与观测结果定性一致。我们发现,盘冠模型不能再现观测到的低吸积率源的硬X射线连续辐射,这可能意味着这些低光度源的吸积模式不同。我们认为,在低吸积率下,盘冠系统转变为平流主导的吸积流+盘冠系统,这可能能够解释上述所有相关性。

英文摘要:

The hard X-ray emission of active galactic nuclei (AGN) is believed to originate from the hot coronae above the cold accretion discs. The hard X-ray spectral index is found to be correlated with the Eddington ratio, and the hard X-ray bolometric correction factor L_bol/L_x increases with the Eddington ratio. The Compton reflection is also found to be correlated with the hard X-ray spectral index. These observational features provide very useful constraints on the accretion disc-corona model for AGN. We construct an accretion disc-corona model and calculate the spectra with different magnetic stress tensors in the cold discs, in which the corona is assumed to be heated by the reconnection of the magnetic fields generated by buoyancy instability in the cold accretion disc. Our calculations show that the magnetic stress tensor αp_gas fails to explain all these observational features, while αp_tot always leads to constant L_bol/L_x independent of the Eddington ratio. The resulted spectra of the disc-corona systems with α(p_gas p_tot)^1/2 show that both the hard X-ray spectral index and the hard X-ray bolometric correction factor L_bol/L_x increase with the Eddington ratio, which are qualitatively consistent with the observations. We find that the disc-corona model is unable to reproduce the observed very hard X-ray continuum emission from the sources accreting at low rates, which may imply the different accretion mode in these low luminosity sources. We suggest that the disc-corona system transits to an advection-dominated accretion flow+disc corona system at low accretion rates, which may be able to explain all the above-mentioned correlations.

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