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预测活动星系核$N_H$光变的一种简单方法

A Simple Method for Predicting $N_H$ Variability in Active Galactic Nuclei

Isaiah Cox, Nuria Torres-Alba, Stefano Marchesi, Xiurui Zhao, Marco Ajello, Andrealuna Pizzetti, Ross Silver

摘要:

活动星系核的统一模型包括一个环形遮蔽结构,用来解释I型和II型活动星系核在倾角效应上的差异。这种环形结构被认为是“cluberous”的视线柱密度,$N_{H}$,已被观察到随着时间的变化,在许多来源。我们提出了一种新的方法,它使用的硬度比的变化来预测活动星系核是否会经历$N_H$在不同的观测变异。我们定义了两套硬和软带,选择是敏感的能量最受影响的变化$N_H$。我们计算这些比率的钱德拉和XMM-牛顿观测的样本上的12个源的多个观测,并比较这种方法的预测与从光谱拟合得到的$N_H$值。我们发现,在这项工作中提出的方法是有效的预选源的变异性研究。

英文摘要:

The unified model of active galactic nuclei (AGN) includes a toroidal obscuring structure to explain the differences between Type I and Type II AGN as an effect of inclination angle. This toroidal structure is thought to be 'clumpy' as the line-of-sight column density, $N_{H}$, has been observed to vary with time in many sources. We present a new method which uses a variation in hardness ratio to predict whether an AGN will have experienced $N_H$ variability across different observations. We define two sets of hard and soft bands that are chosen to be sensitive to the energies most affected by changes in $N_H$. We calculate these ratios for Chandra and XMM-Newton observations on a sample of 12 sources with multiple observations, and compare the predictions of this method with the $N_H$ values obtained from spectral fitting. We find that the method proposed in this work is effective in preselecting sources for variability studies.

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