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用超大质量黑洞的宇宙学演化模拟射电强AGN的射电光度函数

Modelling radio luminosity functions of radio-loud AGN by the cosmological evolution of supermassive black holes

Marco Tucci, Luigi Toffolatti

摘要:

利用超大质量黑洞(SMBH)的宇宙学演化,建立了GHz频段射电噪活动星系核(AGN)光度函数的模型。SMBHs的质量函数和爱丁顿比分布已被视为本分析的出发点。我们的方法是基于物理和现象学的关系,允许统计计算活动星系核核心的射电光度,校正光束效应,通过连接它与SMBH在其中心,通过基本平面的黑洞活动。此外,还通过幂律关系计算了扩展喷流和叶的射电光度,该关系反映了内部射电核心和扩展喷流/叶之间的预期相关性。射电强活动星系核可进一步分为两类,其特征是以不同的吸积方式吸积到中央黑洞上。如果爱丁顿比小于0.01,它们被称为低动力(LK模式)活动星系核;如果大于0.01,它们被称为高动力(HK模式)活动星系核,这个临界值大致对应于辐射无效和有效吸积流之间的转变。在本模型中使用的几个自由参数是通过拟合两种不同类型的观测数据集:在1.4 GHz的射电大声AGN的本地LF和在1.4和5 GHz的河外射电源的差分计数来确定的。我们目前的模型很好地拟合了几乎所有已发表的关于LK模活动星系核和红移z<=1.5的活动星系核总人口的低频数据,而且,在目前探测到的全部光度范围内。另一方面,它往往低估了一些最近的措施,在低红移的HK模式活动星系核的LF,但只有在低射电光度。本模型也能够提供一个非常好的适合几乎所有的数据在1.4和5 GHz的无线电大声源的数量计数。(节略)

英文摘要:

We develop a formalism to model the luminosity functions (LFs) of radio-loud Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) at GHz frequencies by the cosmological evolution of the supermassive black hole (SMBH). The mass function and Eddington ratio distributions of SMBHs have been taken as starting point for this analysis. Our approach is based on physical and phenomenological relations that allow to statistically calculate the radio luminosity of AGN cores, corrected for beaming effects, by linking it with the SMBH at their center, through the Fundamental Plane of black hole activity. Moreover, radio luminosity from extended jets and lobes is also computed through a power-law relationship that reflects the expected correlation between the inner radio core and the extended jets/lobes. Radio-loud AGN are further divided in two classes, characterized by different accretion modes onto the central BH. If the Eddington ratio is <0.01 they are called low-kinetic (LK-mode) AGN; if >0.01, they are called high-kinetic (HK-mode) AGN, being this critical value roughly corresponding to the transition between radiatively inefficient and efficient accretion flows. The few free parameters used in the present model are determined by fitting two different types of observational data sets: local LFs of radio-loud AGN at 1.4 GHz and differential number counts of extragalactic radio sources at 1.4 and 5 GHz. Our present model fits well almost all published data on LFs of LK-mode AGN and of the total AGN population up to redshifts z<=1.5 and, moreover, in the full range of luminosities currently probed by data. On the other hand, it tends to underestimate some recent measures of the LF of HK-mode AGN at low redshifts, but only at low radio luminosities. The present model is also able to provide a very good fit to almost all data on number counts of radio-loud sources at 1.4 and 5 GHz. (abridged)

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