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NGC 4151的Fermi-LAT上限及其对热吸积流物理的意义

Fermi-LAT Upper Limit for NGC 4151 and its Implications for Physics of Hot Accretion Flow

Rafal Wojaczynski, Andrzej Niedzwiecki, Fu-Guo Xie

摘要:

我们目前的初步结果,我们的分析{ \it费米}-LAT数据从NGC 4151的方向。我们发现了一个新的γ射线源,其统计显著性σ> 5,从NGC 4151的位置移动了0.5度。显然,该源仅在2011年12月至2013年6月的1.5年期间明亮,并且强烈污染了NGC 4151的信号。因此,我们在分析中忽略了这一时期。我们发现两个额外的,持久的伽马射线源与高西格玛,从NGC 4151移动约1.5度和5度,其存在最近已被证实在第三费米目录。在减去上述来源之后,我们仍然看到在NGC 4151的位置处有一个σ < 3的弱残差。我们推导出NGC 4151的伽马射线通量的上限(UL),并将其与ADAF模型的预测进行比较,该模型可以解释该天体的X射线观测结果。我们发现,费米UL强烈约束非热加速过程中的热流以及一些关键参数的值。在这里,我们提出的热流模型,其中加热的电子是由库仑相互作用与热质子的比较。在这样一个版本的模型中,伽马射线UL与X射线数据相结合,将质子分布的非热分量中的能量含量限制在最多百分之几,排除了弱(次均分)磁场,并有利于超大质量黑洞的快速旋转。

英文摘要:

We present preliminary results of our analysis of the {\it Fermi}-LAT data from the direction of NGC 4151. We find a new gamma-ray source with a statistical significance sigma > 5, shifted by 0.5degr from the position of NGC 4151. Apparently, the source was bright only during a 1.5-year period between December 2011 and June 2013 and it strongly contaminated the signal from NGC 4151. Therefore, we neglect this period in our analysis. We find two additional, persistent gamma-ray sources with high sigma, shifted from NGC 4151 by ~1.5degr and 5degr, whose presence has been recently confirmed in the Third Fermi Catalog. After subtracting the above sources, we still see a weak residual, with sigma ~< 3, at the position of NGC 4151. We derive an upper limit (UL) for the gamma-ray flux from NGC 4151 and we compare it with predictions of the ADAF model which can explain the X-ray observations of this object. We find that the Fermi UL strongly constrains non-thermal acceleration processes in hot flows as well as the values of some crucial parameters. Here we present the comparison with the hot flow models in which heating of electrons is dominated by Coulomb interactions with hot protons. In such a version of the model, the gamma-ray UL, combined with the X-ray data, constrains the energy content in the non-thermal component of proton distribution to at most a few per cent, rules out a weak (sub-equipartition) magnetic field and favors a rapid rotation of the supermassive black hole.

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