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AGN变异性的正演模拟方法--方法描述和早期应用

A forward modelling approach to AGN variability -- Method description and early applications

Lia F. Sartori, Benny Trakhtenbrot, Kevin Schawinski, Neven Caplar, Ezequiel Treister, Ce Zhang

摘要:

我们提出了一个数值框架的活动星系核(AGN)的变化,它链接的活动星系核在广泛的时间尺度和光度范围内的活动星系核人口的观测特性作为一个整体,特别是爱丁顿比分布函数(ERDF)的变化。我们已经在GPU架构上实现了我们的框架,依赖于之前发布的时间序列生成算法。经过广泛的测试,包括几个内在和数值方面的模拟,我们描述了一些应用程序用于当前和未来的时域调查和研究的极端可变源(例如,“改变外观”或闪耀AGN)。具体来说,我们定义了一个模拟设置,再现活动星系核的变化在PTF/iPTF调查中观察到的,并使用它来正向模型较长的光变曲线的那种,可能会观察到的LSST主调查。由于我们高效的实施,这些模拟能够以大约每周的节奏覆盖超过100万年。我们设想,这个框架对于准备和最佳利用即将到来的时域调查(例如LSST)的数据将变得非常有价值。

英文摘要:

We present a numerical framework for the variability of active galactic nuclei (AGN), which links the variability of AGN over a broad range of timescales and luminosities to the observed properties of the AGN population as a whole, and particularly the Eddington ratio distribution function (ERDF). We have implemented our framework on GPU architecture, relying on previously published time series generating algorithms. After extensive tests that characterise several intrinsic and numerical aspects of the simulations, we describe some applications used for current and future time domain surveys and for the study of extremely variable sources (e.g., "changing look" or flaring AGN). Specifically, we define a simulation setup which reproduces the AGN variability observed in the PTF/iPTF survey, and use it to forward model longer light curves of the kind that may be observed within the LSST main survey. Thanks to our effcient implementations, these simulations are able to cover for example over 1 Myr with a roughly weekly cadence. We envision that this framework will become highly valuable to prepare for, and best exploit, data from upcoming time domain surveys, such as for example LSST.

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