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活动星系核热吸积流的X/ gamma-ray辐射

X/gamma-ray emission from hot accretion flows in AGNs

A. Niedzwiecki, F. -G. Xie, A. A. Zdziarski

摘要:

本文介绍了强引力效应对超大质量黑洞吸积流中产生的高能辐射性质影响的初步研究结果。我们完善了一个模型的X射线发射从一个热的光学薄流相结合的一个完整的广义相对论(GR)流体动力学描述的流量与一个完整的GR描述康普顿。我们发现,从一个快速旋转的黑洞周围的流的辐射是由最里面的几个引力半径,克尔度规的影响是强的区域内产生的辐射为主。来自这样的流的X射线谱取决于视线到对称轴的倾斜角,其中更高的角度的特征在于更硬的斜率和更高的截止能量。下(合理)假设旋转超大质量黑洞的赤道面与周围的环面对齐,这些预测的性质可能提供活动星系核统一模型的重要扩展,允许协调模型与系统的趋势,在一些研究的X射线光谱特性的活动星系核(表明类型2物体比类型1更硬,并且在后者中反射辐射的相对量更大)。另一方面,具有快速旋转的黑洞的模型预测了在更高视角下观察到的物体的更大的表观光度,而在积分数据中揭示了相反的性质(即类型1物体比类型2更亮)。

英文摘要:

We present preliminary results of our study of the impact of strong gravity effects on properties of the high energy radiation produced in accretion flows around supermassive black holes. We refine a model of the X-ray emission from a hot optically-thin flow by combining a fully general-relativistic (GR) hydrodynamical description of the flow with a fully GR description of Comptonization. We find that emission from a flow around a rapidly rotating black hole is dominated by radiation produced within the innermost few gravitational radii, the region where effects of the Kerr metric are strong. The X-ray spectrum from such a flow depends on the inclination angle of the line of sight to the symmetry axis, with higher angles characterised by a harder slope and a higher cut-off energy. Under the (reasonable) assumption that the equatorial plane of a rotating supermassive black hole is aligned with the surrounding torus, these predicted properties may provide a crucial extension of the unified model of AGNs, allowing to reconcile the model with systematic trends reported in a number of studies of the X-ray spectral properties of AGNs (indicating that type 2 objects are harder than type 1 and that the relative amount of the reflected radiation is larger in the latter). On the other hand, the model with a rapidly rotating black hole predicts larger apparent luminosities for objects observed at higher viewing angles, while an opposite property (i.e. type 1 objects being more luminous than type 2) was revealed in the Integral data.

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