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AGN中的辐射压力和吸收:来自Swift的完全无偏样本的结果

Radiation pressure and absorption in AGN: results from a complete unbiased sample from Swift

A. C. Fabian, R. V. Vasudevan, R. F. Mushotzky, L. M. Winter C. S. Reynolds

摘要:

在明亮的活动星系核(AGN)附近,外辐射压力可以超过气体云向内的引力。这就在观测到的柱密度-爱丁顿分数平面上为长寿命的尘埃云创造了一个禁区。(The爱丁顿分数lambda_Edd是活动星系核的辐射热光度与其黑洞质量的爱丁顿极限的比值。Swift/BAT星表是迄今为止最完整的活动星系核硬X射线选择样本,包含97个低红移活动星系核,并给出了它们的柱密度N_H和黑洞质量的计算结果。利用最近的辐射热校正得到了源的爱丁顿分数,并将源标绘在N_H -λ_Edd平面上。只有一个源位于禁带中,由于电离的热吸收体,它具有大的N_H值,从而降低了辐射压。源粒子数的有效爱丁顿极限表明,在更明亮的天体中,高密度的云位于内部的几个pc内,中心的黑洞提供至少一半的质量。我们的结果表明,辐射压确实影响了星系内部核球中气体云的存在。我们简要地讨论了如何N_H -λ_Edd平面可能演变到更高的红移时,由于辐射压力的反馈可能已经很强。

英文摘要:

Outward radiation pressure can exceed the inward gravitational pull on gas clouds in the neighbourhood of a luminous Active Galactic Nucleus (AGN). This creates a forbidden region for long-lived dusty clouds in the observed columnn density - Eddington fraction plane. (The Eddington fraction lambda_Edd is the ratio of the bolometric luminosity of an AGN to the Eddington limit for its black hole mass.) The Swift/BAT catalogue is the most complete hard X-ray selected sample of AGN and has 97 low redshift AGN with measured column densities N_H and inferred black hole masses. Eddington fractions for the sources have been obtained using recent bolometric corrections and the sources have been plotted on the N_H - lambda_Edd plane. Only one source lies in the forbidden region and it has a large value of N_H due to an ionized warm absorber, for which radiation pressure is reduced. The effective Eddington limit for the source population indicates that the high column density clouds in the more luminous objects lie within the inner few pc, where the central black hole provides at least half the mass. Our result shows that radiation pressure does affect the presence of gas clouds in the inner galaxy bulge. We discuss briefly how the N_H - lambda_Edd plane may evolve to higher redshift, when feedback due to radiation pressure may have been strong.

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