黑洞吸积理论及其天体物理学应用的近期发展(Ⅱ)

黑洞吸积理论是天体物理学的一个基础理论,是认识许多高能天体系统如活动星系核、黑洞X射线双星,以及伽马暴等的重要物理基础.该文评述近年来黑洞吸积理论尤其是径移主导吸积流模型(advection-dominated accretion flow)及其变种的主要发展,并介绍该理论在银河系中心、低光度活动星系核、黑洞X射线双星等方面的应用.共分为两篇,该文是第2篇,内容是关于黑洞热吸积流理论在低光度活动星系核以及黑洞X射线双星方面的应用.     

黑洞热吸积流的理论研究

<正>活动星系核(AGN)、低光度活动星系核(LLAGN)以及X射线双星(XRB)系统中都存在黑洞吸积过程.黑洞吸积是人们理解相关天体的辐射、光变等现象的关键.本学位论文主要侧重于对目前非常流行的热吸积流(径移主导吸积流ADAF以及明亮热吸积流LHAF)的研究.该类吸积流是理解LLAGN以及处于硬态的XRB的基本理论模型.论文第1章详细介绍了相关的背景.首先讨论了天体环境中的黑洞及其所处的系统—AGN、     

黑洞的搜寻和证认(I):现状

简要介绍有关黑洞的理论及其表现形式,详细综述在星系中心及X射线双星中搜寻和证认黑洞的原理、方法及现状．在星系层次,除活动星系核中心可能存在的黑洞外,在邻近星系中已找到至少11个黑洞候选者,但观测所及的最小尺度仍比黑洞视界高几个量级。在恒星层次,利用动力学判据,人们己在大质量X射线双星和软X射线暂现源中找到至少10个强候选者,并利用辐射判据找到更多的候选者,但目前仍然没有找到黑洞双星区别于中子星双星的决定性判据．所有这些说明,迄今尚未找到充足的证据证明黑洞的存在。     

粘滞对黑洞吸积盘的截断的影响

采用吸积盘-冕模型研究了粘滞对黑洞X射线双星和低光度活动星系核(LLAGN)中吸积盘的截断以及黑洞X射线双星中高低态转变的影响.以前的分析表明,冕的结构对粘滞的大小非常敏感.因此详细计算了一系列粘滞系数情况下冕的结构.为了便于与观测比较,将数值计算结果进行解析拟合得到最大蒸发率和粘滞系数a的关系,M/MEDD≈1.08a3.35;截断半径和粘滞系数的关系,R/Rs≈36.11a-1.94.这些结果可以用来解释光谱态的高低态的转换和截断半径的变化.并将这些结果应用到几个黑洞X射线双星XTE J118 480,GX 339-4,以及活动星系核NGC 4636中.     

黑洞的搜寻和证认（Ⅰ）：现状

简要介绍有关黑洞的理论及其一肺形式,详细综述在星系中心及Ｘ射线双星中搜寻和证认黑洞的原理、方法及现状。在星系层次,除活动星系核中心可能存在的黑洞外,在邻近星系中已找到至少１１个黑洞候选者,但观测所主的最小尺度仍比黑洞视界高几个量级。     

黑洞天体活动的基本面研究

<正>活动星系核(中心黑洞质量M_(BH)～10~6-10~(10)M_⊙)和黑洞X射线双星(M_(BH)～10M_⊙)普遍被认为具有相似的中心引擎:黑洞、吸积盘和喷流.类似的中心引擎、质量相却差如此之大(6–9个数量级)的两类黑洞系统是否具有相似的物理仍不清楚.本文围绕不同尺度黑洞天体的物理性质和观测特性展开,主要研究了不同尺度黑洞天体活动的基本面关系以及黑洞X射线双星的能谱演化.     

黑洞旋转能量的电磁提取及其在天体物理中的应用

该文着重介绍了两种大尺度磁场提取黑洞旋转能量的机制,即BZ机制和MC机制,以及BZMC共存模型在天体物理中的应用。BZ机制对应于连接黑洞与遥远天体物理负载的"开放"磁力线,而MC机制对应于连接黑洞与吸积盘的"闭合"磁力线。在BZ过程中大尺度磁场把黑洞的旋转能量以Poynting能流的形式输送到天体物理负载,成为驱动黑洞系统的喷流和伽马射线暴的中心发动机。在MC过程中能量和角动量通过大尺度磁场在黑洞与吸积盘之间转移。BZMC共存模型在高能天体物理中的应用包括以下几个方面:1)对活动星系核与黑洞双星的陡发射指数的拟合;2)对黑洞X射线双星的高频QPO与喷流的相关性的解释;3)对伽马射线暴的能量、时标的拟合以及对伽马射线暴与超新星成协的解释。最后对另外两种大尺度磁场提能机制,即BP机制和PC机制也作了简略介绍。     

径移主导吸积盘的含时数值模拟

黑洞吸积被认为是活动星系核的能量来源,而研究黑洞吸积最主要的难题是要解释吸积气体的角动量是如何转移出去的.黑洞吸积盘理论提出通过粘滞力矩转移角动量.径移主导吸积盘模型(advection-dominated accretion flow,简称ADAF)是几何厚、光学薄的低吸积率吸积盘模型,它在解释低光度活动星系核的一些观测现象时获得了很大的成功.近年来,随着计算机技术的迅猛发展,数值模拟在天体物理研究中获得了广泛的应用,也取得了突破性的进展.主要工作是用数值模拟方法研究ADAF整体解作为初始条件模拟黑洞的吸积过程.     

活动星系核X射线本征谱指数与爱丁顿比关系的研究进展

活动星系核是中央核区有剧烈活动的(河外)星系总称。随着观测技术不断进步,人们对活动星系核的研究越来越多,对其理解也越来越深刻。总结整理了近年来对活动星系核X射线本征谱指数与爱丁顿比关系的观测结果,揭示出如下V形关系图像:随着爱丁顿比由大变小,X射线本征谱指数与爱丁顿比由存在正相关关系,转变为存在负相关关系。一般认为,这一观测现象反映了随着吸积率的降低,黑洞吸积模式发生了变化,由高吸积率时的标准薄盘吸积变为低吸积率时的辐射无效吸积流。这表明,基于标准薄盘的最基本的活动星系核统一模型虽然能够成功地解释较高光度活动星系核的很多观测现象,但却需要做一定的修正,以解释低光度活动星系核的一些观测性质。同时,将来有希望利用这一相关关系估算活动星系核一些重要参数,如中央超大黑洞质量、吸积率等,从而帮助人们更好地理解活动星系核的辐射机制和演化过程。最后对这一领域的研究进行了总结与展望。     

活动星系核中黑洞质量和吸积率分布研究

红移、中心黑洞质量和吸积率是活动星系核演化的重要参数.利用反响映射法计算了172个类星体和Seyfert星系样本的中心黑洞质量,并分析了中心黑洞的质量、红移、爱丁顿吸积率的分布,进而验证了从类星体过渡到Seyfert星系的演化.     

Star formation history in the central region of the barred galaxy NGC 4245

We have investigated the gas and stellar kinematics and the stellar population properties at the center of the early-type galaxy NGC 4245 with a large-scale bar by the method of two-dimensional spectroscopy. The galaxy has been found to possess a pronounced chemically decoupled compact stellar nucleus, which is at least a factor of 2.5 richer in metals than the stellar population of the bulge, and a ring of young stars with a radius of 300 pc. Star formation goes on in the ring even now; its location corresponds to the inner Lindblad resonance of the large-scale bar. According to Hubble Space Telescope data, the mean stellar age in the chemically decoupled nucleus is significantly younger than that within 0″.25 of the center. It may be concluded that we take the former ultracompact star formation ring with a radius of no more than 100 pc located at the inner Lindblad resonance of the now disappeared nuclear bar as the chemically decoupled nucleus. On the whole, the picture of star formation at the center of this gas-poor galaxy is consistent with theoretical predictions of the consequences of the secular evolution of a stellar-gaseous disk under the action of a bar or bars.     

Combined color indices and photometric structures of the galaxies NGC 834 and NGC 1134

Surface BVRI photometry is presented for two spiral galaxies with a complex photometric structure: NGC 834 and NGC 1134. We propose to introduce the combined color indices Q _BVI and Q _VRI to investigate the photometric structure of the galaxies. These color indices depend only slightly on selective absorption, which allows them to be used to study the photometric structure of “dusty” galaxies. Evolutionary stellar-population models show that Q _BVI is most sensitive to the presence of blue stars, while Q _VRI depends on local Hα equivalent width. A ring with active star formation manifests itself on the Q _BVI map for NGC 834 at a distance of ～15 from its center, and a spiral structure shows up on the Q _VRI map for NGC 1134 in its inner region. The Q _BVI –Q _VRI diagram can provide information about the current stage of a star's formation in various galactic regions. A comparison of the color indices for the galaxies with their model values allows us to estimate the color excesses and extinction in various galactic regions.     

Relationship between the thickness of stellar disks and the relative mass of a dark galactic halo

We analyze the R-and K _s-band photometric profiles for two independent samples of edge-on galaxies. The thickness of old stellar disks is shown to be related to the relative masses of the spherical and disk components of galaxies. The radial-to-vertical scale length ratio for galactic disks increases (the disks become thinner) with increasing total mass-to-light ratio of the galaxies, which reflects the relative contribution of the dark halo to the total mass, and with decreasing central deprojected disk brightness (density). Our results are in good agreement with numerical models of collisionless disks that evolved to a marginally stable equilibrium state. This suggests that, in most galaxies, the vertical stellar-velocity dispersion, on which the equilibrium-disk thickness depends, is close to a minimum value that ensures disk stability. The thinnest edge-on disks appear to be low-brightness galaxies in which the dark-halo mass far exceeds the stellar-disk mass.     

Long-term evolution of spheroidal galaxies with locally isotropic velocity distribution

The short-term evolution of spheroidal galaxies has been explored by S. Chandrasekhar et al. and G. S. Sunder et al. In this paper, we study their long-term evolution with Laskar's method of frequency analysis. The main new results are as follows: (1) There exists a unique equilibrium, which is spherically symmetric. This equilibrium has a critical linear stability. (2) Generally speaking, the semi-axes exhibit quasiperiodic or nearly quasi-periodic (in a time scale longer than a Hubble time) oscillations around the radius of the above-mentioned equilibrium, so the equilibrium is practically stable. (3) There are cases in which one of the semi-axes tends fast to zero while the other to some finite value. The limit state is generally planar rather than linear, i.e. it is the symmetric semi-axis that tends to zero. This implies that some disk galaxies may have originated from spheroidal pregalaxy material.     

一种质点系统平衡态的非线性稳定性

在具各向异性速度分布的质点系统的总能量小于零时，由大量静态维里定理构造了该系统的一个旋转椭球形平衡态。讨论该平衡态的非线性稳定性。发现在上述平衡态附近旋转随球作拟周期或近拟周期运动，尽管存在混沌运动和轨道扩散行为，但是对实际的时间尺度而言，可以认为该平衡态具有非线性稳定性。有关结果在用N-体数值模拟研究恒星系统振动行为时有一定的应用价值。     

活动星系核中的喷流形成

对活动星系核中的喷流加速机制、观测特征有目前研究近况进行了评述。磁场在喷流加速过程中起重要作用，对磁场加速喷流模型中喷流加速区域的大小进行了估计。比较了不同的磁场加速喷流模型，并讨论了有序吸积盘磁场的形成与维持过程。简要地评述了活动星系核中吸积盘与喷流存在内在联系的观测证据，及中央黑洞与活动星系核的射电辐射特征的关系。     

光学选类星体的低中能X射线连续谱性质

对光学选类星体在更高精度和更宽波段ＡＳＣＡＳＩＳ探测器观测谱中进行了分析．在所使用的X2拟合统计中,有单幂律、双幂律和有能量截止幂律三种形式．发现在８个源的样本中,其中四个源的０．４－１０ｋｅＶ能谱,具有软Ｘ过剩特征．初步发现,软Ｘ过剩的流量随类星体光度的增加,在相应波段中占总流量的比例逐渐降低．同时也注意到,类星体有无软Ｘ过剩与它的射电性质和光度高低无关．     

OH超脉泽源的模型与统计分析

本文提出OH超脉泽源的一个具体模型,在该模型中OH超脉泽源由非饱和的球型子源组成.在此估算出超脉泽星系致密射电核的尺度和连续谱亮温度,以及OH源距星系核的最小非饱和距离.计算表明,OH超脉泽源所包含的子源数目可能相当大.R_H～log ρ_(25μm)/ρ_(60μm)图、log L_(OH)/L_(IR)～log ρ_(25μm)/ρ_(60μm)图和其它结果显示,有一部分OH超脉泽源很可能是弱饱和的,本文对此作了解释.     

Counterrotating Galaxies and Memory of Cosmological Initial Conditions

As it is known, a good number of galaxies are observed to have counterrotating cores. A popular scenario to explain the formation of such galaxies is based on a secondary process of merging of galaxies with their satellites, or gas infall, or merger events between galaxies. An alternative mechanism, proposed by Voglis et al., 1991, and by Harsoula and Voglis 1998, could also be responsible for the formation of these galaxies directly from cosmological initial conditions (direct scenario). The novel mechanism was demonstrated by using quiet cosmological initial conditions in N-body simulations. In the present paper we extend our N-body simulations using clumpy initial conditions and show that this mechanism still works to create counterrotating galaxies. Counterrotation is a result of the considerable amount of memory of initial conditions surviving for times comparable to the Hubble time, despite the large degree of instability of individual orbits and the dramatic redistribution and mixing of the particles in phase space. We show, for example, that the particles remember, in a statistical sense, not only their distance from the center of mass (memory of energy), but also the initial orientation of their position relative to the direction of an external tidal field, which determines the sign and the amount of angular momentum that is transferred to the particles of the system.