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在吸积盘主导的活动星系中测量超大质量黑洞自旋的一种新方法

A new way to measure supermassive black hole spin in accretion disc dominated Active Galaxies

Chris Done, C. Jin, M. Middleton, M. Ward

摘要:

我们表明,光盘连续拟合可以用来限制黑洞自旋的窄线Seyfert 1(NLS 1)AGN的子类,因为它们的低质量和高质量吸积率意味着光盘峰值的能量低于软X射线带通。我们将该技术应用于NLS 1 PG 1244 +026,其中光学/UV/X射线光谱与由标准光盘组件主导一致。这给出了黑洞自旋的最佳估计,它很低,上限为$a_*<0.86$。这与最近的X射线测定(接近)最大黑洞自旋在其他NLS 1的基础上相对论涂抹的铁配置文件。虽然我们对PG 1244 +026的数据在高能下没有足够的统计数据来根据铁谱线轮廓很好地测量黑洞自旋,但宇宙学模拟预测,具有相似质量的黑洞具有相似的生长历史,因此应该具有相似的自旋。这表明,我们对圆盘光谱的理解,或/和X射线反射或/和黑洞自旋的演化存在问题。

英文摘要:

We show that disc continuum fitting can be used to constrain black hole spin in a subclass of Narrow Line Seyfert 1 (NLS1) AGN as their low mass and high mass accretion rate means that the disc peaks at energies just below the soft X-ray bandpass. We apply the technique to the NLS1 PG1244+026, where the optical/UV/X-ray spectrum is consistent with being dominated by a standard disc component. This gives a best estimate for black hole spin which is low, with a firm upper limit of $a_*<0.86$. This contrasts with the recent X-ray determinations of (close to) maximal black hole spin in other NLS1 based on relativistic smearing of the iron profile. While our data on PG1244+026 does not have sufficient statistics at high energy to give a good measure of black hole spin from the iron line profile, cosmological simulations predict that black holes with similar masses have similar growth histories and so should have similar spins. This suggests that there is a problem either in our understanding of disc spectra, or/and X-ray reflection or/and the evolution of black hole spin.

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