Seyfert核的射电变率
Radio Variability in Seyfert Nuclei
摘要：
比较8.4 GHz的无线电图像的样本11早期型塞弗特星系与以前的观测揭示了可能的变化，其中5个超过7年的时间内的核射电通量密度。我们没有发现射电变率和核射电光度或塞弗特核类型之间的相关性，虽然样品是小的，占主导地位的2型塞弗特。相反，核射电变率的存在和~100-pc尺度的射电辐射的缺乏之间可能存在相关性。NGC 2110是唯一一个具有显著的扩展射电结构和强核变率（在七年内核衰减>38%）的源。我们的研究结果表明，所有的塞弗茨可能会表现出变化，在其核无线电通量密度在8.4 GHz，但这种变化更容易识别在紧凑的来源，其中发射从可变核不稀释未解决的，恒定的通量密度无线电喷流发射在中央~50 pc。如果耀斑在射电光变曲线对应于新的相对论性组件或出现的冲击在底层流的喷射，我们认为，无线电喷流可能是本质上非相对论性在静止期间，但塞弗茨，黑洞驱动的活动星系核，有能力在无线电耀斑加速相对论性喷流。结合VLBI分辨率成像的Seyfert中平谱射电核的探测率增加和可变水超脉泽发射的探测，我们的研究结果支持了Seyfert人口间歇性静止期和核爆发的范例。（节录）。
英文摘要：
Comparison of 8.4-GHz radio images of a sample of 11 early-type Seyfert galaxies with previous observations reveals possible variation in the nuclear radio flux density in 5 of them over a 7-yr period. We find no correlation between radio variability and nuclear radio luminosity or Seyfert nuclear type, although the sample is small and dominated by type 2 Seyferts. Instead, a possible correlation between the presence of nuclear radio variability and the absence of ~100-pc-scale radio emission is seen. NGC2110 is the only source with significant extended radio structure and strong nuclear variability (>38% nuclear decline over seven years). Our results suggest that all Seyferts may exhibit variation in their nuclear radio flux density at 8.4 GHz, but that variability is more easily recognised in compact sources in which emission from the variable nucleus is not diluted by unresolved, constant flux density radio-jet emission within the central ~50 pc. If flares in radio light curves correspond to ejection of new relativistic components or emergence of shocks in the underlying flow, we suggest that radio jets may be intrinsically non-relativistic during quiescence, but that Seyferts, as black-hole driven AGN, have the capacity to accelerate relativistic jets during radio flares. Taken together with the increased detection rate of flat spectrum radio nuclei in Seyferts imaged at VLBI resolutions and the detection of variable water megamaser emission, our results support the paradigm of intermittent periods of quiescence and nuclear outburst across the Seyfert population. (Abridged).
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