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对MCG-5-23-16和SWIFT J2127 .4+5654中相对论混响的深入研究:灯柱模型的检验

A Hard Look At Relativistic Reverberation in MCG-5-23-16 & SWIFT J2127.4+5654: Testing the Lamp-Post Model

A. Zoghbi, J. M. Miller, E. Cackett

摘要:

X射线反射映射作为一种新的探测活动星系核吸积的工具,为黑洞尺度的吸积研究提供了一种潜在的强有力的探测手段。这种滞后现象以及相对论性的光谱特征常常被用灯柱模型来解释。特别侧重于测试相对论混响模型的预测,我们有针对性的几个最明亮的塞弗特星系的X射线与不同的观测计划。在这里,我们报告了NuSATR针对MCG-5-23-16和SWIFT J2127.4+5654的两个大型活动的结果,以测试3-50 keV波段的模型预测。这是三个来源中的两个,表明早期数据中有延迟康普顿峰的迹象。通过将先前分析的曝光量增加三倍,我们没有发现MCG-5-23-16中存在相对论性混响的证据,并且能量相关滞后与对数线性连续体一致。在SWIFT J2127.4+5654中,尽管仅连续模型解释了数据,但相对论混响模型提供了对能量和频率相关滞后的显著改善,但参数与时间平均频谱不一致。这增加了越来越多的证据表明,滞后数据与静态灯柱模型不一致。

英文摘要:

X-ray reverberation mapping has emerged as a new tool to probe accretion in AGN, providing a potentially powerful probe of accretion at the black hole scale. The lags, along with relativistic spectral signatures are often interpreted in light of the lamp-post model. Focusing specifically on testing the prediction of the relativistic reverberation model, we have targeted several of the brightest Seyfert Galaxies in X-rays with different observing programs. Here, we report the results from two large campaigns with NuSATR targeting MCG-5-23-16 and SWIFT J2127.4+5654 to test the model predictions in the 3-50 keV band. These are two of three sources that showed indications of a delayed Compton hump in early data. With triple the previously analyzed exposures, we find no evidence for relativistic reverberation in MCG-5-23-16, and the energy-dependent lags are consistent with a log-linear continuum. In SWIFT J2127.4+5654, although a continuum-only model explains the data, the relativistic reverberation model provides a significant improvement to the energy and frequency-dependent lags, but with parameters that are not consistent with the time-averaged spectrum. This adds to mounting evidence showing that the lag data is not consistent with a static lamp-post model.

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