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外观不断变化的Blazar B2 1420+32

The Changing Look Blazar B2 1420+32

Hora D. Mishra, Xinyu Dai, Ping Chen, Jigui Cheng, T. Jayasinghe, Michael A. Tucker, Patrick J. Vallely, David Bersier, Subhash Bose, Aaron Do, Subo Dong, Thoma… 展开作者

Hora D. Mishra, Xinyu Dai, Ping Chen, Jigui Cheng, T. Jayasinghe, Michael A. Tucker, Patrick J. Vallely, David Bersier, Subhash Bose, Aaron Do, Subo Dong, Thomas W. S. Holoien, Mark E. Huber, Christopher S. Kochanek, Enwei Liang, Anna V. Payne, Jose Prieto, Benjamin J. Shappee, K. Z. Stanek, Saloni Bhatiani, John Cox, Cora DeFrancesco, Zhiqiang Shen, Todd A. Thompson, Junfeng Wang

摘要:

耀变体是活动星系核,它们的相对论喷流指向观测者,有两个主要的子类,平谱射电类星体和BL Lac天体。我们提出了对blazar B2 1420+32的多波长光度和光谱监测观测,重点关注其在2018-2020年的爆发。多历元光谱表明,耀变体表现出大规模的光谱变化,在其连续谱和线发射,伴随着戏剧性的伽马射线和光学可变性的因素高达40和15,分别从一周到一个月的时间尺度。在过去十年中,伽马射线和光通量分别增加了1500倍和100倍。B2 1420+32是1995年推出的具有宽发射线的FSRQ。在2018年开始的一系列耀斑之后,它多次在BL Lac和FSRQ状态之间转换,并出现了强Fe伪连续体。两个光谱还包含可以被建模为12,000和5,200 K的单温黑体的分量。这样一组“外观变化”的特征以前从未在耀变体中被观察到。我们测量伽马射线光学和带间光学滞后意味着发射区的分离小于800和130引力半径分别。由于大多数发射线通量的变化,除了Fe连续,是在一个因素的2-3,FSRQ和BL Lac分类之间的过渡主要是由连续可变性。大的Fe连续通量的增加表明,尘埃升华释放更多的Fe离子在中央发动机和能量转移的发生从相对论性喷流的次相对论排放组件。

英文摘要:

Blazars are active galactic nuclei with their relativistic jets pointing toward the observer, with two major sub-classes, the flat spectrum radio quasars and BL Lac objects. We present multi-wavelength photometric and spectroscopic monitoring observations of the blazar, B2 1420+32, focusing on its outbursts in 2018-2020. Multi-epoch spectra show that the blazar exhibited large scale spectral variability in both its continuum and line emission, accompanied by dramatic gamma-ray and optical variability by factors of up to 40 and 15, respectively, on week to month timescales. Over the last decade, the gamma-ray and optical fluxes increased by factors of 1500 and 100, respectively. B2 1420+32 was an FSRQ with broad emission lines in 1995. Following a series of flares starting in 2018, it transitioned between BL Lac and FSRQ states multiple times, with the emergence of a strong Fe pseudo continuum. Two spectra also contain components that can be modeled as single-temperature black bodies of 12,000 and 5,200 K. Such a collection of "changing look" features has never been observed previously in a blazar. We measure gamma-ray-optical and the inter-band optical lags implying emission region separations of less than 800 and 130 gravitational radii respectively. Since most emission line flux variations, except the Fe continuum, are within a factor of 2-3, the transitions between FSRQ and BL Lac classifications are mainly caused by the continuum variability. The large Fe continuum flux increase suggests the occurrence of dust sublimation releasing more Fe ions in the central engine and an energy transfer from the relativistic jet to sub-relativistic emission components.

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