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Chandra深场中的辐射压、吸收和AGN反馈

Radiation pressure, absorption and AGN feedback in the Chandra Deep Fields

S. I. Raimundo, A. C. Fabian, F. E. Bauer, D. M. Alexander, W. N. Brandt, B. Luo, R. V. Vasudevan, Y. Q. Xue

摘要:

活动星系核(AGN)中央引擎周围存在吸收气体是这些天体的共同特征。最近的工作着眼于气体的尘埃成分的影响,以及它如何提高辐射压力,使含尘气体可以有一个较低的有效爱丁顿限制比电离气体。在这项工作中,我们使用多波长的数据和X射线光谱从2毫秒曝光的钱德拉深场北和钱德拉深场南调查,以确定活动星系核的爱丁顿比和氢柱密度。它们的分布进行比较,当考虑到尘埃和气体之间的耦合预测。我们的最终样本包括来自两个领域的234个对象,最大和最深的AGN样本,这种比较已经取得了最新的。我们发现,样本中的活动星系核大多倾向于在低爱丁顿比(通常在1 e-4和1 e-1之间)和高柱密度(> 1 e 22 cm^-2)下发现,而黑洞的质量在~ 1 e 8和1 e 9太阳质量之间。它们的分布与增强辐射压力模型的预期一致,避开了我们预测存在外流的区域。我们还研究了活动星系核辐射压力和引力势之间的平衡如何影响星系核球中云的行为,并描述了一种增强的辐射压力可以导致黑洞/星系标度关系的基本平面的情况。

英文摘要:

The presence of absorbing gas around the central engine of Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) is a common feature of these objects. Recent work has looked at the effect of the dust component of the gas, and how it enhances radiation pressure such that dusty gas can have a lower effective Eddington limit than ionised gas. In this work, we use multi-wavelength data and X-ray spectra from the 2 Ms exposures of the Chandra Deep Field North and Chandra Deep Field South surveys, to characterise the AGN in terms of their Eddington ratio and hydrogen column density. Their distributions are then compared with what is predicted when considering the coupling between dust and gas. Our final sample consists of 234 objects from both fields, the largest and deepest sample of AGN for which this comparison has been made up to date. We find that most of the AGN in our sample tend to be found at low Eddington ratios (typically between 1e-4 and 1e-1) and high column density (>1e22 cm^-2), with black hole masses between ~1e8 and 1e9 solar masses. Their distribution is in agreement with that expected from the enhanced radiation pressure model, avoiding the area where we would predict the presence of outflows. We also investigate how the balance between AGN radiation pressure and gravitational potential influences the behaviour of clouds in the galactic bulge, and describe a scenario where an enhanced radiation pressure can lead to the fundamental plane of black hole/galaxy scaling relations.

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