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Seyfert星系NGC 7674中的一个候选亚秒差距双星黑洞

A candidate sub-parsec binary black hole in the Seyfert galaxy NGC 7674

Preeti Kharb, Dharam Vir Lal, David Merritt

摘要:

利用星系形成的分级模型预言了双超大质量黑洞的存在。到目前为止,只有一个单一的二进制SBH已被成像,在一个7.3秒差距的投影分离。在这里,我们报告的候选人双SBH的检测与预测的0.35 pc的气体丰富的相互作用的螺旋星系NGC 7674(Mrk 533)。这个奇特的塞弗特星系拥有一个$\sim$ 0.7 kpc的Z形射电喷流;这种源形成的主要模型假设存在一个未合并的双星SBH,它是在卫星星系的陷落过程中产生的。利用甚长基线干涉测量技术(VLBI),我们在2、5、8和15 GHz的射频上对Mrk 533的中心区域进行了成像。两个可能是反频谱的射电核心只在15 GHz被探测到;这两个核心的8-15 GHz频谱指数是$\ge-0.33$和$\ge-0.38$($\pm 30\%$),与吸积SBH一致。我们从热点区域的多历元秒差距尺度数据中推导出喷流速度$\sim0.28c$和源年龄$\ge8.2\times10^3$ yrs。

英文摘要:

The existence of binary supermassive black holes (SBHs) is predicted by models of hierarchical galaxy formation. To date, only a single binary SBH has been imaged, at a projected separation of 7.3 parsecs. Here we report the detection of a candidate dual SBH with projected separation of 0.35 pc in the gas-rich interacting spiral galaxy NGC 7674 (Mrk 533). This peculiar Seyfert galaxy possesses a $\sim$0.7 kpc Z-shaped radio jet; the leading model for the formation of such sources postulates the presence of an uncoalesced binary SBH created during the infall of a satellite galaxy. Using very long baseline interferometry (VLBI), we imaged the central region of Mrk 533 at radio frequencies of 2, 5, 8 and 15 GHz. Two, possibly inverted-spectrum radio cores were detected at 15 GHz only; the 8-15 GHz spectral indices of the two cores are $\ge-0.33$ and $\ge-0.38$ ($\pm 30\%$), consistent with accreting SBHs. We derive a jet speed $\sim0.28c$ from multi-epoch parsec-scale data of the hotspot region, and a source age $\ge8.2\times10^3$ yrs.

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