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活动星系中的线变率和连续变率

Line and Continuum Variability in Active Galaxies

Y. E. Rashed, A. Eckart, M. Valencia-S., M. García-Marín, G. Busch, J. Zuther, M. Horrobin, H. Zhou

摘要:

我们比较了18个活动星系核星系的光学光谱和光度数据超过2至3个历元,时间间隔通常为5至10年。我们使用了大双筒望远镜(LBT)的多目标双光谱仪(MODS),并将光谱与SDSS数据库和文献中的数据进行了比较。我们发现这些源的禁氧线以及氢复合线的变化。对于4个源,我们发现,在校准的不确定性,在连续谱和线光谱的源的变化是非常小的。我们认为,这主要是在黑洞质量的样品之间的差异,是负责不同程度的连续可变性。此外,我们发现,对于一个恒定的吸积率的总线的变化(占主导地位的窄线的贡献)回响的连续可变性与依赖$ΔL_{line} \propto (ΔL_{cont.})^{\frac{3}{2}}$。由于这种依赖性在窄线发射中表现得很突出,这意味着窄线区域的光度主导部分必须非常紧凑,尺寸至少为10光年。与文献数据的比较表明,这些研究结果描述了共61个宽和窄线源的变异特性。

英文摘要:

We compared optical spectroscopic and photometric data for 18 AGN galaxies over 2 to 3 epochs, with time intervals of typically 5 to 10 years. We used the Multi-Object Double Spectrograph (MODS) at the Large Binocular Telescope (LBT) and compared the spectra to data taken from the SDSS database and the literature. We find variations in the forbidden oxygen lines as well as in the hydrogen recombination lines of these sources. For 4 of the sources we find that, within the calibration uncertainties, the variations in continuum and line spectra of the sources are very small. We argue that it is mainly the difference in black hole mass between the samples that is responsible for the different degree of continuum variability. In addition we find that for an otherwise constant accretion rate the total line variability (dominated by the narrow line contributions) reverberates the continuum variability with a dependency $ΔL_{line} \propto (ΔL_{cont.})^{\frac{3}{2}}$. Since this dependency is prominently expressed in the narrow line emission it implies that the luminosity dominating part of the narrow line region must be very compact with a size of the order of at least 10 light years. A comparison to literature data shows that these findings describe the variability characteristics of a total of 61 broad and narrow line sources.

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