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活动星系核从光学到X射线的变化

Variability of Active Galactic Nuclei from the Optical to X-ray Regions

C. Martin Gaskell, Elizabeth S. Klimek

摘要:

综述了活动星系核变率研究的一些进展。对X射线辐射进行再处理以产生大量波长更长的连续谱似乎被排除了。在某些物体中,存在相关的X射线和光学可变性,光学可变性的幅度已经超过X射线可变性的幅度。我们认为,加速粒子撞击物质可能会将X射线和光学变化(如太阳色球层中的活动)联系起来。在所有类型的活动星系核中,束流效应都是显著的。同一物体在不同时间和不同物体之间的光学/X射线关系的多样性,可以用相对于我们视线的几何形状和运动方向的变化来解释。线性散粒噪声模型的可变性被排除,而是必须有大规模的组织的可变性。变化发生在光交叉的时间尺度,而不是粘性的时间尺度,这可能排除了标准的沙库拉-Sunyaev吸积盘。射电强活动星系核和射电静活动星系核具有相似的连续体形状和相似的变率特性。这表明类似的连续统起源和变异机制。尽管它们的X射线变异性很大,但窄线塞弗特1型(NLS 1型)并没有表现出极端的光学变异性。

英文摘要:

Some progress in understanding AGN variability is reviewed. Reprocessing of X-ray radiation to produce significant amounts of longer-wavelength continua seems to be ruled out. In some objects where there has been correlated X-ray and optical variability, the amplitude of the optical variability has exceeded the amplitude of X-ray variability. We suggest that accelerated particles striking material could be linking X-ray and optical variability (as in activity in the solar chromosphere). Beaming effects could be significant in all types of AGN. The diversity in optical/X-ray relationships at different times in the same object, and between different objects, might be explained by changes in geometry and directions of motion relative to our line of sight. Linear shot-noise models of the variability are ruled out; instead there must be large-scale organization of variability. Variability occurs on light-crossing timescales rather than viscous timescales and this probably rules out the standard Shakura-Sunyaev accretion disk. Radio-loud and radio-quiet AGNs have similar continuum shapes and similar variability properties. This suggests similar continuum origins and variability mechanisms. Despite their extreme X-ray variability, narrow-line Seyfert 1s (NLS1s) do not show extreme optical variability.

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