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NGC 4156中光学上难以捉摸、外观变化的活性核

The optically elusive, changing-look active nucleus in NGC 4156

Giulia Tozzi, Elisabeta Lusso, Lapo Casetti, Marco Romoli, Gloria Andreuzzi, Isabel Montoya A., Emanuele Nardini, Giovanni Cresci, Riccardo Middei, Silvia Berto… 展开作者

Giulia Tozzi, Elisabeta Lusso, Lapo Casetti, Marco Romoli, Gloria Andreuzzi, Isabel Montoya A., Emanuele Nardini, Giovanni Cresci, Riccardo Middei, Silvia Bertolini, Paolo Calabretto, Vieri Cammelli, Francisco Cuadra, Marco Dalla Ragione, Cosimo Marconcini, Adriano Miceli, Irene Mini, Martina Palazzini, Giorgio Rotellini, Andrea Saccardi, Lavinia Samà, Mattia Sangalli, Lorenzo Serafini, Fabio Spaccino

摘要:

我们报告了星系NGC 4156中活动星系核(AGN)的变化性质,这是由于在学生观测计划期间在国家伽利略望远镜(TNG)于2019年获得的数据而偶然发现的。以前的光谱从未显示出任何宽线辐射的特征,活动星系核的证据只能来自X射线观测,因为光学窄线通量比无法明确地将这个星系称为塞弗特星系。我们的2019年TNG数据意外地揭示了H $α$和H $β$轮廓中宽线分量的出现,以及连续体的上升,从而暗示了AGN从2型(没有宽线发射)向(几乎)1型转变。宽线发射随后被我们2022年的后续观测所证实,而上升的连续谱不再被检测到,这暗示了进一步的进化向后(接近)2型。宽线分量的存在还使我们能够获得该源中黑洞质量的第一个单历元估计(log(MBH/Msun)$\sim$ 8.1)。观测到的光谱变化可能是NGC 4156吸积活动变化的结果,尽管不能完全排除可变吸收。

英文摘要:

We report on the changing-look nature of the active galactic nucleus (AGN) in the galaxy NGC 4156, as serendipitously discovered thanks to data acquired in 2019 at the Telescopio Nazionale Galileo (TNG) during a students' observing programme. Previous optical spectra had never shown any signatures of broad-line emission, and evidence of the AGN had come only from X-ray observations, being the optical narrow-line flux ratios unable to unambiguously denote this galaxy as a Seyfert. Our 2019 TNG data unexpectedly revealed the appearance of broad-line components in both the H$α$ and H$β$ profiles, along with a rise of the continuum, thus implying a changing-look AGN transitioning from a type 2 (no broad-line emission) towards a (nearly) type 1. The broad-line emission has then been confirmed by our 2022 follow-up observations, whereas the rising continuum has no longer been detected, which hints at a further evolution backwards to a (nearly) type 2. The presence of broad-line components also allowed us to obtain the first single-epoch estimate of the black hole mass (log(MBH/Msun) $\sim$ 8.1) in this source. The observed spectral variability might be the result of a change in the accretion activity of NGC 4156, although variable absorption cannot be completely excluded.

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