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耀变体的分裂和费米耀变体的性质

The blazar's divide and the properties of Fermi blazars

G. Ghisellini

摘要:

费米卫星上的LAT仪器在运行的头三个月里探测到了100多个10西格玛以上的耀变体。这已经是一个很大的改进,相对于其前身,仪器EGRET板载康普顿伽马射线天文台。在观测上,新的探测遵循并确认了所谓的耀变体序列,将测热观测到的非热光度与光谱能量分布的整体形状联系起来。我们研究了所有这些明亮的费米耀变体的一般物理性质,发现它们的喷流是物质主导的,携带着与它们的吸积盘的光度相关的大的总功率。我们认为,划分耀变体的两个子类的宽线发射对象(平谱射电类星体)和线无BL湖是一个相当激烈的变化的吸积模式的后果,成为辐射效率低于临界值的吸积率,对应于磁盘光度的~ 1%的爱丁顿一个。电离光子的减少低于这个极限意味着宽线云,即使存在,也不能产生明显的宽线,物体成为BL Lac。

英文摘要:

The LAT instrument, onboard the Fermi satellite, in its first three months of operation detected more than 100 blazars at more than the 10 sigma level. This is already a great improvement with respect to its predecessor, the instrument EGRET onboard the Compton Gamma Ray Observatory. Observationally, the new detections follow and confirm the so-called blazar sequence, relating the bolometric observed non-thermal luminosity to the overall shape of the spectal energy distribution. We have studied the general physical properties of all these bright Fermi blazars, and found that their jets are matter dominated, carrying a large total power that correlates with the luminosity of their accretion disks. We suggest that the division of blazars into the two subclasses of broad line emitting objects (Flat Spectrum Radio Quasars) and line-less BL Lacs is a consequence of a rather drastic change of the accretion mode, becoming radiatively inefficient below a critical value of the accretion rate, corresponding to a disk luminosity of ~1 per cent of the Eddington one. The reduction of the ionizing photons below this limit implies that the broad line clouds, even if present, cannot produce significant broad lines, and the object becomes a BL Lac.

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