논문 상세보기

MULTIPLE EMISSION STATES IN ACTIVE GALACTIC NUCLEI KCI 등재 SCOPUS

  • 언어ENG
  • URLhttps://db.koreascholar.com/Article/Detail/384392
구독 기관 인증 시 무료 이용이 가능합니다. 4,000원
천문학회지 (Journal of The Korean Astronomical Society)
한국천문학회 (Korean Astronomical Society)
초록

We present a test of the emission statistics of active galactic nuclei (AGN), probing the connection between red-noise temporal power spectra and multi-modal flux distributions known from observations. We simulate AGN lightcurves under the assumption of uniform stochastic emission processes for different power-law indices of their power spectra. For sufficiently shallow slopes (power-law indices β≤ 1), the flux distributions (histograms) of the resulting lightcurves are approximately Gaussian. For indices corresponding to steeper slopes (β≥ 1), the flux distributions become multi-modal. This finding disagrees systematically with results of recent mm/radio observations. Accordingly, we conclude that the emission from AGN does not necessarily originate from uniform stochastic processes even if their power spectra suggest this. Possible mechanisms are transitions between different activity states and/or the presence of multiple, spatially disconnected, emission regions.

저자
  • SASCHA TRIPPE(Department of Physics and Astronomy, Seoul National Universit y) Corresponding Author
  • JONG-HO PARK(Department of Physics and Astronomy, Seoul National Universit y)