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Chandra巡天:晚型星系中中心黑洞的一个重要星群

Chandra Survey of Nearby Galaxies: A Significant Population of Candidate Central Black Holes in Late-type Galaxies

Rui She, Luis C. Ho, Hua Feng

摘要:

基于钱德拉数据存档截至2016年3月,我们已经确定了719个星系中的314个候选活动星系核,这些星系位于50 Mpc附近,其中包括晚型(哈勃Sc型和更晚)星系,这些星系以前曾被光学观测归类为包含恒星形成(H II)核。这些晚型星系是寻找低质量(<10^6太阳质量)中心黑洞的宝贵子样本。对于作为一个整体的样本,星系类型和核光谱分类的活动核的分数的整体依赖性是一致的,与以前的结果的基础上光学调查。我们在163个H II核中探测到了51个X射线核,并非常保守地估计,其中约74%的光度高于10^38 erg/s的核没有被X射线双星污染;对于光度为10^39 erg/s或更高的X射线核,这一比例增加到约92%。这使我们能够估计在这些晚型的,许多无凸起的星系中,黑洞占据比例>~ 21%。

英文摘要:

Based on the Chandra data archive as of March 2016, we have identified 314 candidate active galactic nuclei in 719 galaxies located closer than 50 Mpc, among them late-type (Hubble types Sc and later) galaxies that previously had been classified from optical observations as containing star-forming (H II) nuclei. These late-type galaxies comprise a valuable subsample to search for low-mass (<~ 10^6 solar masses) central black holes. For the sample as a whole, the overall dependence of the fraction of active nuclei on galaxy type and nuclear spectral classification is consistent with previous results based on optical surveys. We detect 51 X-ray cores among the 163 H II nuclei and estimate that, very conservatively, ~74% of them with luminosities above 10^38 erg/s are not contaminated by X-ray binaries; the fraction increases to ~92% for X-ray cores with a luminosity of 10^39 erg/s or higher. This allows us to estimate a black hole occupation fraction of >~ 21% in these late-type, many bulgeless, galaxies.

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