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光电离等离子体程序的系统比较及其在X射线AGN光谱研究中的应用

Systematic comparison of photoionised plasma codes with application to spectroscopic studies of AGN in X-rays

M. Mehdipour, J. S. Kaastra, T. Kallman

摘要:

原子数据和等离子体模型在天体物理光谱的诊断和解释中起着至关重要的作用,从而影响我们对宇宙的理解。在这项调查中,我们提出了一个系统的比较领先的光电离代码,以确定有多少内在的差异影响X射线光谱研究的热等离子体光电离平衡。我们进行我们的计算使用多云,DAC,和XSTAR光电离代码,并比较其衍生的热和电离状态的各种电离光谱能量分布。我们检查由此产生的吸收线光谱从这些代码的情况下,在活动星系核的电离外流。通过比较离子丰度作为电离参数$ξ$的函数,我们发现,平均有大约30%的偏差之间的代码在$ξ$的离子丰度的峰值。对于单独的类H到类B序列离子,$ξ$的这种偏差较小,平均约为10%。X射线波段吸收谱的比较表明,在log $ξ$ ~ 1到2处产生的谱线的光学深度的代码之间平均存在约30%的偏差,在log $ξ$ ~ 3处减小到约20%的偏差。我们还模拟光谱的电离流出与当前和即将到来的高分辨率X射线光谱仪,在船上XMM牛顿,钱德拉,瞳,雅典娜。从这些模拟中,我们得到的最佳拟合模型参数的偏差,所产生的使用不同的光电离代码,这是约10至40%。我们比较了模拟的不确定性与观测的不确定性。这些结果突出了持续开发和增强光电离代码对于即将到来的雅典娜X射线天文学时代的重要性。

英文摘要:

Atomic data and plasma models play a crucial role in the diagnosis and interpretation of astrophysical spectra, thus influencing our understanding of the universe. In this investigation we present a systematic comparison of the leading photoionisation codes to determine how much their intrinsic differences impact X-ray spectroscopic studies of hot plasmas in photoionisation equilibrium. We carry out our computations using the Cloudy, SPEX, and XSTAR photoionisation codes, and compare their derived thermal and ionisation states for various ionising spectral energy distributions. We examine the resulting absorption-line spectra from these codes for the case of ionised outflows in active galactic nuclei. By comparing the ionic abundances as a function of ionisation parameter $ξ$, we find that on average there is about 30% deviation between the codes in $ξ$ where ionic abundances peak. For H-like to B-like sequence ions alone, this deviation in $ξ$ is smaller at about 10% on average. The comparison of the absorption-line spectra in the X-ray band shows that there is on average about 30% deviation between the codes in the optical depth of the lines produced at log $ξ$ ~ 1 to 2, reducing to about 20% deviation at log $ξ$ ~ 3. We also simulate spectra of the ionised outflows with the current and upcoming high-resolution X-ray spectrometers, on board XMM-Newton, Chandra, Hitomi, and Athena. From these simulations we obtain the deviation on the best-fit model parameters, arising from the use of different photoionisation codes, which is about 10 to 40%. We compare the modelling uncertainties with the observational uncertainties from the simulations. The results highlight the importance of continuous development and enhancement of photoionisation codes for the upcoming era of X-ray astronomy with Athena.

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