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活动星系核射电响度的起源及其与中心超大质量黑洞性质的关系

On the origin of radio-loudness in AGNs and its relationship with the properties of the central supermassive black hole

Marco Chiaberge, Alessandro Marconi

摘要:

研究了中心超大质量黑洞的质量与活动星系核射电响度之间的关系。我们使用最新的校准来推导射电大类星体样本的维里黑洞质量,文献中对这些样本的质量估计相对较小(M_BH <10^8 M_sun)。我们考虑了辐射压对BLR的影响,它降低了宽线云所经历的有效引力势,并影响了明亮类星体的质量估计。我们发现,在SDSS观测到的附近低光度活动星系核、类星体和活动星系核的明确样本中,射电强(RL)活动星系核总是拥有超过~10^8 M太阳的SMBH。另一方面,无线电宁静(RQ)活动星系核与更大范围的黑洞质量有关。即使不对黑洞质量的估计值进行辐射压效应的修正,总体结果仍然成立。我们提出了一个猜想,根据这些结果,其目的是解释的起源射电响度的两个基本参数:自旋的黑洞和黑洞质量。我们推测,为了产生RL活动星系核,必须同时满足以下两个条件:1)黑洞的质量M_BH必须大于~10^8 M_sun; 2)黑洞的自旋必须很大,才能满足理论要求。考虑到最新的观测结果,我们设想的情况下,合并历史的宿主星系起着根本性的作用,在会计的AGN和星系形态,这在我们的图片是严格相连的属性。RL源可能只能通过涉及大质量BH的主要干合并获得,这将产生核心形态和所需的显著黑洞自旋。

英文摘要:

We investigate the relationship between the mass of central supermassive black holes and the radio loudness of active galactic nuclei. We use the most recent calibrations to derive virial black hole masses for samples of radio loud QSOs for which relatively small masses (M_BH<10^8 M_sun) have been estimated in the literature. We take into account the effect of radiation pressure on the BLR which reduces the effective gravitational potential experienced by the broad-line clouds and affects the mass estimates of bright quasars. We show that in well defined samples of nearby low luminosity AGNs, QSOs and AGNs from the SDSS, radio-loud (RL) AGN invariably host SMBHs exceeding ~10^8 M_sun. On the other hand, radio-quiet (RQ) AGNs are associated with a much larger range of black hole masses. The overall result still holds even without correcting the BH mass estimates for the effects of radiation pressure. We present a conjecture based on these results, which aims at explaining the origin of radio-loudness in terms of two fundamental parameters: the spin of the black hole and the black hole mass. We speculate that in order to produce a RL AGN both of the following requirements must be satisfied: 1)the black hole mass M_BH has to be larger than ~10^8 M_sun; 2)the spin of the BH must be significant, in order to satisfy theoretical requirements. Taking into account the most recent observations, we envisage a scenario in which the merger history of the host galaxy plays a fundamental role in accounting for both the properties of the AGN and the galaxy morphology, which in our picture are strictly linked. RL sources might be obtained only through major dry mergers involving BH of large mass, which would give rise to both the core morphology and the significant black hole spin needed.

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