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通过活动星系核的系综变率探索黑洞标度关系

Exploring black-hole scaling relations via the ensemble variability of Active Galactic Nuclei

A. Georgakakis, I. Papadakis, M. Paolillo

摘要:

一个经验模型的链接,第一次,AGN的人口统计学的集合X射线的变化特性。本文结合活动星系核入射的观测结果和活动星系核通量变化的功率谱密度(PSD)模型以及黑洞质量与恒星质量标度关系的参数化,预测了宇宙学体积中活动黑洞粒子数的平均超额方差。我们表明,观测测量的集合过剩方差作为X射线光度的函数的模型的比较提供了一个处理PSD模型和黑洞质量与恒星质量的关系。我们发现有力的证据对PSD模型,是由一个破碎的幂律和一个恒定的整体归一化。相反,我们的分析表明,PSD的幅度取决于吸积事件的物理性质,如爱丁顿比和/或黑洞质量。我们还发现,目前的观测测量的合奏多余的方差是一致的黑洞质量与恒星质量的关系的本地球状体的基础上动态确定的黑洞质量。我们还讨论了未来的前景,提出的方法来共同约束的活动星系核的PSD和黑洞质量与恒星质量的关系作为红移的函数。

英文摘要:

An empirical model is presented that links, for the first time, the demographics of AGN to their ensemble X-ray variability properties. Observations on the incidence of AGN in galaxies are combined with (i) models of the Power Spectrum Density (PSD) of the flux variations of AGN and (ii) parameterisations of the black-hole mass vs stellar-mass scaling relation, to predict the mean excess variance of active black-hole populations in cosmological volumes. We show that the comparison of the model with observational measurements of the ensemble excess variance as a function of X-ray luminosity provides a handle on both the PSD models and the black-hole mass vs stellar mass relation. We find strong evidence against a PSD model that is described by a broken power-law and a constant overall normalisation. Instead our analysis indicates that the amplitude of the PSD depends on the physical properties of the accretion events, such as the Eddington ratio and/or the black hole mass. We also find that current observational measurements of the ensemble excess variance are consistent with the black-hole mass vs stellar mass relation of local spheroids based on dynamically determined black-hole masses. We also discuss future prospects of the proposed approach to jointly constrain the PSD of AGN and the black-hole mass vs stellar mass relation as a function of redshift.

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