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射电宁静AGN射电辐射的起源

The Origin of Radio Emission from Radio-Quiet AGN

Francesca Panessa, Ranieri D. Baldi, Ari Laor, Paolo Padovani, Ehud Behar, Ian McHardy

摘要:

星系的中心核,超大质量黑洞(SMBH)被认为是居住的地方,当它们成为活动星系核(AGN)时,可以经历活动阶段。活动星系核可以喷射出风、喷流,并产生跨越整个电磁波谱的辐射。在不同的活动星系核类别中,射电中的辐射热辐射所占的比例约为10^5倍。最弱的射电源,无线电安静(RQ)AGN,通常比无线电大声(RL)AGN暗1,000倍,代表了AGN人口的大多数。在RL AGN中,射电辐射基本上都是由相对论性喷流的同步辐射产生的。相比之下,在RQ活动星系核的发光喷流的情况下,使我们能够探测无线电发射从广泛的可能机制,从宿主星系kpc规模下降到最里面的区域附近的SMBHs:恒星形成,活动星系核驱动风,自由的光电离气体,低功率射流,和最里面的吸积盘日冕活动的自由发射。由于目前和即将到来的高灵敏度无线电阵列,现在可以以前所未有的精度和空间分辨率探测所有这些机制。

英文摘要:

The central nuclei of galaxies, where super-massive black holes (SMBHs) are thought to reside, can experience phases of activity when they become Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN). An AGN can eject winds, jets, and produce radiation across the entire electromagnetic spectrum. The fraction of the bolometric emission in the radio spans a factor of ~10^5 across the different AGN classes. The weakest radio sources, radio-quiet (RQ) AGN, are typically 1,000 times fainter than the radio-loud (RL) AGN, and represent the majority of the AGN population. In RL AGN, radio emission is essentially all produced by synchrotron emission from a relativistic jet. In contrast, in RQ AGN the absence of luminous jets allows us to probe radio emission from a wide range of possible mechanisms, from the host galaxy kpc scale down to the innermost region near the SMBHs: star formation, AGN driven wind, free-free emission from photo-ionized gas, low power jet, and the innermost accretion disc coronal activity. All these mechanisms can now be probed with unprecedented precision and spatial resolution, thanks to the current and forthcoming generation of highly sensitive radio arrays.

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