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在AGN功率谱密度函数中寻找X射线再处理回波

A search for X-ray reprocessing echoes in the power spectral density functions of AGN

D. Emmanoulopoulos, I. E. Papadakis, A. Epitropakis, T. Pecháček, M. Dovčiak, I. M. McHardy

摘要:

我们提出了一个详细的研究结果的X射线功率谱密度(PSD)功能的12个X射线亮活动星系核,使用几乎所有的档案XMM牛顿数据。EPIC-pn光变曲线的总净曝光量在所有情况下都大于350 ks(在1H 0707-497的情况下超过1 Ms)。在活动星系核吸积盘内部发生X射线反射的物理情况下,X射线反射分量应是X射线连续谱信号的滤波回波,等于初始辐射与吸积盘响应函数的卷积。我们的主要目标是在5-7 keV(铁线)和0.5-1 keV(软)波段,其中X射线反射分数预计将占主导地位的这些反射功能搜索。我们适合所观察到的周期图两个模型:一个简单的弯曲幂律模型(BPL)和BPL模型卷积的传递函数的吸积盘假设的灯柱几何形状和X射线反射从一个均匀的光盘。我们没有发现任何显着的功能,在最佳拟合BPL模型残差无论是在个别PSD的铁带,软和全波段(0.3-10千电子伏)或在平均PSD残差的最亮和更可变的来源(类似的黑洞质量估计)。软带和全带残差的典型幅度约为3%-5%。有可能没有检测到预期的广义相对论效应,因为它们本质上低于当前PSD的不确定性,即使在强相对论情况下,X射线反射发生在快速旋转黑洞周围的圆盘上,该黑洞上方有一个非常接近的X射线源。然而,如果我们预先知道X射线PSD的固有形状,特别是其高频斜率,我们可以用当前数据集对X射线反射几何形状施加强约束。

英文摘要:

We present the results of a detailed study of the X-ray power spectra density (PSD) functions of twelve X-ray bright AGN, using almost all the archival XMM-Newton data. The total net exposure of the EPIC-pn light curves is larger than 350 ks in all cases (and exceeds 1 Ms in the case of 1H 0707-497). In a physical scenario in which X-ray reflection occurs in the inner part of the accretion disc of AGN, the X-ray reflection component should be a filtered echo of the X-ray continuum signal and should be equal to the convolution of the primary emission with the response function of the disc. Our primary objective is to search for these reflection features in the 5-7 keV (iron line) and 0.5-1 keV (soft) bands, where the X-ray reflection fraction is expected to be dominant. We fit to the observed periodograms two models: a simple bending power law model (BPL) and a BPL model convolved with the transfer function of the accretion disc assuming the lamp-post geometry and X-ray reflection from a homogeneous disc. We do not find any significant features in the best-fitting BPL model residuals either in individual PSDs in the iron band, soft and full band (0.3-10 keV) or in the average PSD residuals of the brightest and more variable sources (with similar black hole mass estimates). The typical amplitude of the soft and full-band residuals is around 3-5 per cent. It is possible that the expected general relativistic effects are not detected because they are intrinsically lower than the uncertainty of the current PSDs, even in the strong relativistic case in which X-ray reflection occurs on a disc around a fast rotating black hole having an X-ray source very close above it. However, we could place strong constrains to the X-ray reflection geometry with the current data sets if we knew in advance the intrinsic shape of the X-ray PSDs, particularly its high frequency slope.

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