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通过比较 NGC 4395 的 X 射线与光学功率谱检验活动星系核光学光变的吸积盘再处理模型

Testing disc reprocessing models for AGN optical variability by comparison of X-ray and optical power spectra of NGC 4395

Max Beard, Ian McHardy, Keith Horne, Edward Cackett, Federico Vincentelli, Juan Venancio Hernandez Santisteban, Jake Miller, Vikram Dhillon, Johan Knapen, Stuar… 展开作者

Max Beard, Ian McHardy, Keith Horne, Edward Cackett, Federico Vincentelli, Juan Venancio Hernandez Santisteban, Jake Miller, Vikram Dhillon, Johan Knapen, Stuart Littlefair, Daniel Kynoch, Elmé Breedt, Yue Shen, Jonathan Gelbord

AI总结:

本文利用 NGC 4395 的 3 年 g' 波段监测结合 TESS 和 HiPERCAM 数据构建跨越约 7 个数量级频率的光学功率谱,发现其弯曲时标约 3 天,并通过与 X 射线再处理模拟对比,证明长时标大幅度光学光变不能仅由吸积盘再处理解释,需引入额外光变来源。

摘要:

人们普遍认为,活动星系核(AGN)的光学光变至少部分是由周围吸积盘对中心 X 射线的再处理产生的,从而导致不同波段之间存在依赖于波长的时延。任何良好的 AGN 光学光变模型不仅应解释这些时延,还应解释由功率谱密度(PSD)所量化的整体光变模式。本文介绍了对低质量 AGN NGC 4395 为期 3 年的约每日一次的 g' 波段监测。结合先前的 TESS 和 GTC/HiPERCAM 观测,我们得到了覆盖约 7 个数量级这一前所未有的频率范围的光学 PSD,从而能够极好地确定 PSD 参数。该 PSD 可由弯曲幂律很好地拟合,其低频斜率 α_L = 1.0 ± 0.2,高频斜率为 2.1^{+0.2}_{-0.4},弯曲时标为 3.0^{+6.6}_{-1.7} 天。该时标与先前仅对 TESS 观测拟合阻尼随机游走(DRW)模型所得结果接近,尽管 α_L 过陡,与 DRW 不一致。我们将观测到的 PSD 与根据假设 X 射线再处理所合成的光变曲线得到的 PSD 进行比较,其中 X 射线由 XMM-Newton 和 Swift 观测,吸积盘由观测到的时延定义。模拟 PSD 也可由弯曲幂律很好地描述,但其弯曲频率高出两个数量级。我们得出结论:在长时标上看到的大幅度光学变化并非源于吸积盘再处理,而是需要第二个光变来源,其起源尚不清楚,但可能是传播的吸积盘吸积率变化。

英文摘要:

It is generally thought that AGN optical variability is produced, at least in part, by reprocessing of central X-rays by a surrounding accretion disc, resulting in wavelength-dependent lags between bands. Any good model of AGN optical variability should explain not only these lags, but also the overall pattern of variability as quantified by the power spectral density (PSD). Here we present $\sim$daily g'-band monitoring of the low-mass AGN NGC\,4395 over 3 years. Together with previous TESS and GTC/HiPERCAM observations we produce an optical PSD covering an unprecedented frequency range of $\sim7$ decades allowing excellent determination of PSD parameters. The PSD is well fitted by a bending power law with low-frequency slope $α_{L} = 1.0 \pm 0.2$, high-frequency slope $2.1^{+0.2}_{-0.4}$ and bend timescale $3.0^{+6.6}_{-1.7}\,$\,d. This timescale is close to that derived previously from a damped random walk (DRW) model fitted to just the TESS observations, although $α_{L}$ is too steep to be consistent with a DRW. We compare the observed PSD with one made from light curves synthesized assuming reprocessing of X-rays, as observed by \xmm and Swift, in a disc defined by the observed lags. The simulated PSD is also well described by a bending power law but with a bend two decades higher in frequency. We conclude that the large-amplitude optical variations seen on long-timescales are not due to disc reprocessing but require a second source of variability whose origin is unknown but could be propagating disc accretion rate variations.

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