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活动星系核辐射驱动中心遮蔽结构的时间分辨红外辐射

Time-resolved infrared emission from radiation-driven central obscuring structures in Active Galactic Nuclei

M. Schartmann, K. Wada, M. A. Prieto, A. Burkert, K. R. W. Tristram

摘要:

塞弗特星系的中央引擎被认为被几何厚的气体和尘埃结构所笼罩。在这篇文章中,我们推导出可观察到的性质的自洽模型的环形气体和尘埃分布,其中的几何厚度的实现和保持的帮助下,由于中央引擎的X射线加热和辐射压力。利用RADMC-3D进行尘埃连续辐射转移计算,得到了谱能量分布和图像。这是第一次,我们能够提出时间分辨的SED和图像的物理模型的中央模糊。时间上的变化大多是可见的,在较短的波长,接近的尘埃不透明度以及中央源光谱的组合峰值,并在所产生的外流的柱密度的变化所造成的。由于流体动力学模型的三组分形态--一个带有高密度细丝的薄圆盘,一个周围蓬松的组分(模糊)和低密度流出沿旋转轴-我们发现戏剧性的差异取决于波长:而中红外图像主要由流出锥体的细长外观决定,长波长发射主要由冷且致密的盘部件给出。总的来说,我们发现很好的协议与观察到的特征,特别是对于那些模型,它显示出清晰的外流锥结合几何厚分布的气体和尘埃,以及一个几何薄,但高柱密度盘在赤道平面。

英文摘要:

The central engines of Seyfert galaxies are thought to be enshrouded by geometrically thick gas and dust structures. In this article, we derive observable properties for a self-consistent model of such toroidal gas and dust distributions, where the geometrical thickness is achieved and maintained with the help of X-ray heating and radiation pressure due to the central engine. Spectral energy distributions (SEDs) and images are obtained with the help of dust continuum radiative transfer calculations with RADMC-3D. For the first time, we are able to present time-resolved SEDs and images for a physical model of the central obscurer. Temporal changes are mostly visible at shorter wavelengths, close to the combined peak of the dust opacity as well as the central source spectrum and are caused by variations in the column densities of the generated outflow. Due to the three-component morphology of the hydrodynamical models -- a thin disc with high density filaments, a surrounding fluffy component (the obscurer) and a low density outflow along the rotation axis -- we find dramatic differences depending on wavelength: whereas the mid-infrared images are dominated by the elongated appearance of the outflow cone, the long wavelength emission is mainly given by the cold and dense disc component. Overall, we find good agreement with observed characteristics, especially for those models, which show clear outflow cones in combination with a geometrically thick distribution of gas and dust, as well as a geometrically thin, but high column density disc in the equatorial plane.

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