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暂态相对论性铁发射线来自一个X射线耀斑超大质量黑洞

Transient Relativistic Iron Emission Line from an X-ray Flaring Supermassive Black Hole

California Institute of Technology(加州理工学院);University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign(伊利诺伊大学厄巴纳-香槟分校);Clemson University(克莱姆森大学);NASA Goddard Space Flight Center(美国宇航局戈达德太空飞行中心);Università di Bologna(博洛尼亚大学);INAF, Osservatorio di Astrofisica e Scienza dello Spazio di Bologna(意大利国家天体物理研究所博洛尼亚天文与空间科学观测站);Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology(加州理工学院喷气推进实验室)
Xiurui Zhao, Marco Ajello, Francesca Civano, Javier A. Garcıa, Elias Kammoun, Stefano Marchesi, Yue Shen, Daniel Stern, Qian Yang, Peter G. Boorman, Fiona Harri… 展开作者

Xiurui Zhao, Marco Ajello, Francesca Civano, Javier A. Garcıa, Elias Kammoun, Stefano Marchesi, Yue Shen, Daniel Stern, Qian Yang, Peter G. Boorman, Fiona Harrison, Erin Kara, Andrealuna Pizzetti, Ross Silver, Kirill V. Sokolovsky, Zachary Stone, Nuria Torres-Alba, Qiaoya Wu, Peixin Zhu

AI总结:

发现首个暂态相对论性铁发射线,揭示X射线耀斑对吸积盘的影响,为探测黑洞和盘物理提供新方法。

摘要:

我们报告了在活动星系核(AGN)J1047+5907中发现的第一个暂态相对论性铁Kα线。该线在2008年观测到的X射线日冕耀斑后21.5天(固有帧)被检测到,其显著的展宽与围绕中心超大质量黑洞(SMBH)附近吸积盘的相对论反射一致。该线的宽度约为300 eV,对应于距离SMBH 5-41光日处的开普勒速度14,000 km/s,强烈表明观测到的日冕耀斑触发了该线的出现。该事件提供了罕见的直接证据,证明吸积盘对突发日冕照射的响应,并提供了一种新的方法来探测SMBH和盘物理。相对论模型倾向于由远处吸积盘的反射产生的展宽线,一致于其他观测。系统监测强X射线耀斑后的I型AGN可能打开一个新的观测窗口,以研究AGN最内侧区域,从而对SMBH及其不同半径处吸积盘的物理特性提供约束。

英文摘要:

We report the discovery of the first transient relativistic iron Kα line in an Active Galactic Nucleus (AGN) J1047+5907. The line was detected 21.5 days (rest-frame) after an X-ray coronal flare observed in 2008 and it exhibits significant broadening consistent with relativistic reflection from the accretion disk in the vicinity of the central supermassive black hole (SMBH). The line has a width of ~300 eV, corresponding to a Keplerian velocity of 14,000 km s-1, at a distance of 5-41 light-days from the SMBH, strongly implying that the observed coronal flare triggered the emergence of the line. This event provides rare direct evidence of the response of the accretion disk to impulsive coronal illumination and offers a new method to probe the SMBH and disk physics. The relativistic modeling favors a broadened line produced by distant reflection from an accretion disk around a rapidly spinning black hole viewed at an intermediate inclination, consistent with other observations. Systematic monitoring of type 1 AGN following strong X-ray flares may open a new observational window into the innermost regions of AGN, enabling constraints on the physics of SMBH and its accretion disk at different radii that are otherwise challenging to access.

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