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无线电静默AGN和瞬变无线电天空

Radio-Quiet AGN and the Transient Radio Sky

C. G. Mundell, N. Nagar, P. Ferruit

摘要:

8.4-对早期型塞弗特星系的光学选定样本进行GHZ射电成像研究;比较两个时期拍摄的图像,发现其中五个星系在七年期间的核射电通量密度可能发生变化。结果表明,有一个可能的相关性之间的存在的核射电变率和没有百秒差距尺度的无线电发射,类似于无线电大声活动星系核。我们的研究结果表明,所有的塞弗茨可能会表现出变化,在其核无线电通量密度在8.4 GHz的,但这种变化是更容易认识到在紧凑的来源,其中从可变核发射未稀释的未解决的,恒定的通量密度无线电喷流发射在中央50 pc。结合其他Seyfert属性,这些结果表明了一个范例的间歇性周期的平静和核爆发的Seyfert人口,并证明了调查的时间域在无线电波长的重要性,这仍然是完全未探索的微弱的无线电安静AGN。间歇活动和射电耀斑的发现对活动星系核占空比和超高能宇宙射线的起源有重要意义。新的射电设施,如EVN上的EVLA/VLBA、eMERLIN、LOFAR和eVLBI,将彻底改变射电静活动星系核的研究;特别是,灵敏度和采样率的提高与高角分辨率和自动数据简化的结合将打开瞬态射电天空,并带来未来的重大突破。

英文摘要:

8.4-GHZ radio imaging study of an optically selected sample of early type Seyfert galaxies; comparison of images taken at two epochs reveals possible variation in the nuclear radio flux density in five of them over a seven year period. It is shown that there is a possible correlation between the presence of nuclear radio variability and the absence of hundred parsec-scale radio emission, analogous with radio-loud AGN. Our results suggest that all Seyferts may exhibit variation in their nuclear radio flux density at 8.4 GHz, but that variability is more easily recognized in compact sources in which emission from the variable nucleus is not diluted by unresolved, constant flux density radio jet emission within the central 50 pc. Taken in combination with other Seyfert properties, these results suggest a paradigm of intermittent periods of quiescence and nuclear outburst across the Seyfert population and demonstrate the importance of investigating the temporal domain at radio wavelengths, which remains completely unexplored for faint radio-quiet AGN. Discovery of intermittent activity and radio flares has important implications for the AGN duty cycles and the origin of Ultra-High Energy Cosmic Rays. New radio facilities, such as the EVLA/VLBA, eMERLIN, LOFAR and eVLBI on the EVN, will revolutionise the study of radio-quiet AGN; in particular, the combination of increased sensitivity and sampling rate with high-angular resolution and automatic data reduction will open up the transient radio sky and bring major future breakthroughs.

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