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NGC 6814的相关X射线/紫外/光学变化

Correlated X-ray/Ultraviolet/Optical Variability in NGC 6814

Jon Troyer, David Starkey, Edward Cackett, Misty Bentz, Michael Goad, Keith Horne, James Seals

摘要:

我们目前的结果,为期3个月的综合X射线/紫外线/光学监测活动的塞弗特1星系NGC 6814。2012年6月至8月,雨燕在X射线和紫外波段对该物体进行了监测,2012年5月至7月,利物浦望远镜在B和V波段对该物体进行了监测。利用互相关分析,我们计算了X射线和低能量带之间的时间延迟。这些滞后被认为与光在中心X射线发射区和吸积盘上更远的区域之间的传播时间有关。计算的滞后支持热再处理方案,其中X射线光子加热盘并被再处理成较低能量的光子。此外,我们适合使用CREAM,马尔可夫链蒙特卡罗代码的标准光盘的光变曲线。最佳拟合的标准盘模型产生不合理的高超爱丁顿吸积率。假设更合理的增长率将导致严重低估的滞后。如果大部分的再处理起源于光盘,那么这意味着吸积盘的紫外/光学发射区域比标准薄盘模型预测的更远。考虑到宽发射谱线的贡献,B和V的滞后减少了约25%(小于滞后测量的不确定性),尽管来自巴耳末连续谱的额外污染也可能导致大于预期的滞后。这种预测和测量的带间延迟之间的差异,现在变得常见的AGN波长依赖的滞后测量。

英文摘要:

We present results of a 3-month combined X-ray/UV/optical monitoring campaign of the Seyfert 1 galaxy NGC 6814. The object was monitored by Swift from June through August 2012 in the X-ray and UV bands and by the Liverpool Telescope from May through July 2012 in B and V. The light curves are variable and significantly correlated between wavebands. Using cross-correlation analysis, we compute the time lag between the X-ray and lower energy bands. These lags are thought to be associated with the light travel time between the central X-ray emitting region and areas further out on the accretion disc. The computed lags support a thermal reprocessing scenario in which X-ray photons heat the disc and are reprocessed into lower energy photons. Additionally, we fit the lightcurves using CREAM, a Markov Chain Monte Carlo code for a standard disc. The best-fitting standard disc model yields unreasonably high super-Eddington accretion rates. Assuming more reasonable accretion rates would result in significantly under-predicted lags. If the majority of the reprocessing originates in the disc, then this implies the UV/optical emitting regions of the accretion disc are farther out than predicted by the standard thin disc model. Accounting for contributions from broad emission lines reduces the lags in B and V by approximately 25% (less than the uncertainty in the lag measurements), though additional contamination from the Balmer continuum may also contribute to the larger than expected lags. This discrepancy between the predicted and measured interband delays is now becoming common in AGN where wavelength-dependent lags are measured.

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