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用于干燥BL Lacertae物体的电源

Power for dry BL Lacertae objects

A. Paggi, A. Cavaliere, V. Vittorini, M. Tavani

摘要:

几个BL Lac的本征输出在10^46 erg s^-1左右时趋于平稳,这一点是否有意义?在寻找答案的过程中,我们将AGILE卫星对BL Lac S5 0716+714的伽马射线观测与Mrk 421和Mrk 501的观测进行了比较;前者的显著特征是在0.1-10 GeV能量范围内,强烈的耀斑通量高达2 x 10^-6光子cm^-2 s^-1。这些“干燥”的BL Lac既没有显示出热盘发射的证据,也没有显示出任何吸积或周围气体的发射线的证据;它们的纯非热辐射的光谱分布可以通过同步加速器自康普顿过程有效地表示。通过对源参数进行相应的推导,并利用同步多波长观测进行调整,我们发现S5 0716+714的总喷流功率约为3 x 10^45 erg·s^-1,这使其成为迄今为止在伽马射线中探测到的最亮的干BL Lac之一。我们估计,相关克尔洞的质量约为5 x 10^8 M太阳,这意味着通过布兰德福德-茨纳杰克电动力学机制可以提取的最大功率约为4 x 10^45 erg s^-1,这是对源的重要测量;在伽马射线中观测到的其他干BL Lac仍远低于这一阈值。这些发现和那些即将从费米-LAT将提供一个强大的测试电动力学在周围的洞,这是占主导地位的GR效应。

英文摘要:

Is it significant that the intrinsic outputs of several BL Lacs are observed to level off at values of about 10^46 erg s^-1? In searching for an answer, we compare gamma-ray observations by the AGILE satellite of the BL Lac S5 0716+714 with those of Mrk 421 and Mrk 501; the former are particularly marked by intense flares up to fluxes of 2 x 10^-6 photons cm^-2 s^-1 in the 0.1-10 GeV energy range. These "dry" BL Lacs show evidence of neither thermal disk emissions nor emission lines signaling any accreting or surrounding gas; the spectral distributions of their pure non-thermal radiations are effectively represented by the synchrotron self-Compton process. With source parameters correspondingly derived and tuned with simultaneous multiwavelength observations, we find for S5 0716+714 a total jet power of about 3 x 10^45 erg s^-1, which makes it one of the brightest dry BL Lacs so far detected in gamma rays. We evaluate the mass of the associated Kerr hole to be around 5 x 10^8 M_sun, implying that the source is significantly gauged in terms of the maximal power around 4 x 10^45 erg s^-1 extractable via the Blandford-Znajek electrodynamical mechanism; other dry BL Lacs observed in gamma rays remain well below that threshold. These findings and those forthcoming from Fermi-LAT will provide a powerful test of electrodynamics in the surroundings of the hole, that are dominated by GR effects.

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