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主动星系中作为遮蔽体的错位盘

Misaligned Discs as Obscurers in Active Galaxies

A. Lawrence, M. Elvis

摘要:

我们批判性地回顾了有关活动星系核(AGN)中出现2型活动星系核的证据,仔细区分严格的2型活动星系核与更浅的发红的1型活动星系核,以及低激发窄线活动星系核,这可能代表不同的活动模式。低激发活动星系核主要出现在低光度下;除去这些后,真正的2型活动星系核占所有活动星系核的58%,而轻度变红的1型活动星系核占15%。射电、红外和有限体积的样品都一致表明,2型组分不随光度变化。X射线样品确实显示出随光度的变化,我们讨论了这种差异的可能原因。我们测试了一个非常简单的图片,产生这个类型2分数与最小的假设。在这幅图中,来自大尺度的粒子以随机的方向下落,但最终必须与内部的吸积流对齐,产生一个在秒差距尺度上严重扭曲的圆盘。如果重新排列是由倾斜占主导地位,最小的扭曲,一个广泛的覆盖因素,预测在个别对象,但与预期的平均分数的2型活动星系核正好50%。这种“倾斜圆盘”图像预测了观察到的原子核结构平均合理的排列,但在个别情况下存在明显的错位。对少数几个分辨率很好的天体的初步案例研究表明,这种错位确实存在。

英文摘要:

We review critically the evidence concerning the fraction of Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) which appear as Type 2 AGN, carefully distinguishing strict Type 2 AGN from both more lightly reddened .Type 1 AGN, and from low excitation narrow line AGN, which may represent a different mode of activity. Low excitation AGN occur predominantly at low luminosities; after removing these, true Type 2 AGN represent 58% of all AGN, and lightly reddened Type 1 AGN a further ~15%. Radio, IR, and volume-limited samples all agree in showing no change of Type 2 fraction with luminosity. X-ray samples do show a change with luminosity; we discuss possible reasons for this discrepancy. We test a very simple picture which produces this Type 2 fraction with minimal assumptions. In this picture, infall from large scales occurs in random directions, but must eventually align with the inner accretion flow, producing a severely warped disk on parsec scales. If the re-alignment is dominated by tilt, with minimal twist, a wide range of covering factors is predicted in individual objects, but with an expected mean fraction of Type 2 AGN of exactly 50%. This 'tilted disc' picture predicts reasonable alignment of observed nuclear structures on average, but with distinct misalignments in individual cases. Initial case studies of the few well resolved objects show that such misalignments are indeed present.

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