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用近红外偏振测量法估算AGN环面上的磁场强度

Estimations of the magnetic field strength in the torus of AGN using near-infrared polarimetry

E. Lopez-Rodriguez, C. Packham, S. Young, M. Elitzur, N. A. Levenson, R. E. Mason, C. Ramos Almeida, A. Alonso-Herrero, T. J. Jones, E. Perlman

摘要:

一个光学上和几何上都很厚的环面从某些视线上遮住了活动星系核(AGN)的中心引擎。从磁流体动力学的框架,环面可以被认为是一个特殊的区域云周围的中央引擎,云是灰尘和光学厚。在这个框架中,磁场在环的产生、形态和演化中起着重要的作用。如果云内的尘埃颗粒被假定为顺磁性排列,那么固有偏振和可见消光的比率P(%)/Av是磁场强度的函数。为了估计通过环面的可见消光和约束活动星系核中的偏振机制,我们开发了一个偏振模型来拟合2型活动星系核IC 5063的1.2”(~ 263 pc)孔径中的总通量和偏振通量。极化模型是一致的,在K观察到的核极化是由二向色吸收与通过48 $\pm$ 2马格的环面的视觉消光对齐尘埃颗粒。我们估计的固有极化所产生的二向色吸收为P $_{K}^{dic}$ =12.5 $\pm$ 2.7%。我们考虑了IC 5063环的物理条件和气体和尘埃的环境。然后,通过顺磁排列,我们估计IC 5063的环面的NIR发射区域中的磁场强度在12- 128 mG的范围内。或者,我们使用欧拉-费米方法估计天空平面中的磁场强度。根据IC 5063圆环内的条件,天空平面中的最小磁场强度估计为13和41 mG。这些技术为活动星系核的巡天、研究磁场强度对环的影响、吸积作用以及与宿主星系的相互作用提供了机会。

英文摘要:

An optically and geometrically thick torus obscures the central engine of Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) from some lines of sight. From a magnetohydrodynamical framework, the torus can be considered to be a particular region of clouds surrounding the central engine where the clouds are dusty and optically thick. In this framework, the magnetic field plays an important role in the creation, morphology and evolution of the torus. If the dust grains within the clouds are assumed to be aligned by paramagnetic alignment, then the ratio of the intrinsic polarisation and visual extinction, P(%)/Av, is a function of the magnetic field strength. To estimate the visual extinction through the torus and constrain the polarisation mechanisms in the nucleus of AGN, we developed a polarisation model to fit both the total and polarised flux in a 1.2" (~263pc) aperture of the type 2 AGN, IC5063. The polarisation model is consistent with the nuclear polarisation observed at K being produced by dichroic absorption from aligned dust grains with a visual extinction through the torus of 48$\pm$2 mag. We estimated the intrinsic polarisation arising from dichroic absorption to be P$_{K}^{dic}$=12.5$\pm$2.7%. We consider the physical conditions and environment of the gas and dust for the torus of IC5063. Then, through paramagnetic alignment, we estimate a magnetic field strength in the range of 12-128mG in the NIR emitting regions of the torus of IC5063. Alternatively, we estimate the magnetic field strength in the plane of the sky using the Chandrasekhar-Fermi method. The minimum magnetic field strength in the plane of the sky is estimated to be 13 and 41 mG depending of the conditions within the torus of IC5063. These techniques afford the chance to make a survey of AGN, to investigate the effects of magnetic field strength on the torus, accretion, and interaction to the host galaxy.

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