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.     

黑洞天体活动的基本面研究

活动星系核(中心黑洞质量MBH^10^6-10^10M⊙)和黑洞X射线双星(MBH^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.     

黑洞吸积理论及其天体物理学应用的近期发展(Ⅰ)

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、伽马射线暴等的重要物理基础。该文评述了近年来黑洞吸积理论,尤其是径移主导吸积流(advection-dominated accretion flow,ADAF)模型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。全文分为两篇,该文是第一篇,内容是关于黑洞的热吸积流理论及其在银河系中心的应用。     

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.     

X射线双星的形成与演化

<正>X射线双星是包含一颗吸积致密星(黑洞、中子星或者白矮星)的双星系统,是宇宙中的重要天体.对它们的研究不仅可以帮助人们理解双星演化、吸积盘和致密星物理,而且也有助于对星系的形成和演化历史甚至宇宙学模型的认识.本文的目的是讨论X射线双星的形成和演化过程,涉及到Be/X射线双星、低质量X射线双星、极亮X射线源和激变变星.第1章我们简要介绍了双星演化的相关知识.     

宇宙信息

一个国际天文学家小组最近研究揭示了一个上千个太阳质量的黑洞在近距星暴星系M82内的形成过程。 钱德拉X射线天文台的观测表明位于星暴星系M82里的星团MGG11中存在一个异常的亮源。这个X射线源的特性只能由一个大约一千个太阳质量的黑洞来解释,这一黑洞的质量居银河系比较小的(恒星质量)黑洞和在星系核里发现的特大质量黑洞之间。恒星质量黑洞仅比太阳的质量大几倍,而银河系中心的黑洞比太阳的质量大几百万倍。     

星系的转动与黑洞形成的判据

本文通过数值计算解出稳态星系模型，并与椭圆星系及旋涡星系核球的自转和弥散速度曲线相比较。由星系运动曲线拟合出的星系半径与从光度曲线拟合出的潮汐半径不一致，后者总是前者的３倍左右，这是由于分布函数的截断方式不妥造成的。我们的结论是：该模型虽不能正确描述整个星系，但却能正确描述星系的较内部区域，我们分析了三个有速度曲线资料的星系黑洞候选者：Ｍ１０４、Ｍ３１和银河系，发现它们由于有太快的自转，都不可能在达到稳态之后有满足形成黑洞所要求的≡ｃＪ／ＧＭ２＜１的区域存在，因此它们的中心如有黑洞，只能有更早的起源。     

X射线双星

X射线双星是最近十几年以来天体物理学中很活跃的一个研究领域。本文简要地介绍了这个新领域的基本内容,包括:几个典型的X射线双星的观测资料;X射线双星中致密源的定性分析;理论上的核心问题——吸积到黑洞、中子星和白矮星——的阐述。     

发现早熟的特大质量黑洞

钱德拉X射线天文台已经获得确凿证据证明,一个大爆炸后不到10亿年形成的类星体含有一个完全成熟的、生成能量相当于太阳20万亿倍的黑洞。存在于宇宙如此早阶段的黑洞向星系和大质量黑洞形成理论提出了挑战。剑桥哈佛—史密松天体物理中心的天文学家观     

X-ray reverberation around accreting black holes

Luminous accreting stellar mass and supermassive black holes produce power–law continuum X-ray emission from a compact central corona. Reverberation time lags occur due to light travel time delays between changes in the direct coronal emission and corresponding variations in its reflection from the accretion flow. Reverberation is detectable using light curves made in different X-ray energy bands, since the direct and reflected components have different spectral shapes. Larger, lower frequency, lags are also seen and are identified with propagation of fluctuations through the accretion flow and associated corona. We review the evidence for X-ray reverberation in active galactic nuclei and black hole X-ray binaries, showing how it can be best measured and how it may be modelled. The timescales and energy dependence of the high-frequency reverberation lags show that much of the signal is originating from very close to the black hole in some objects, within a few gravitational radii of the event horizon. We consider how these signals can be studied in the future to carry out X-ray reverberation mapping of the regions closest to black holes.     

恒星级黑洞的观测证认研究进展

具有不同质量的恒星在耗尽其热核能源后,最终可能会坍缩成为性质完全不同的致密天体,如白矮星、中子星或者黑洞。从20世纪30年代起,黑洞的观测及其证认一直是天体物理学的研究热点之一。首先简要地回顾了恒星级黑洞的形成及其候选天体的研究历史;然后介绍了如何从观测上证认恒星级黑洞:接着详细讨论了恒星级黑洞的质量和自转参数的测量方法;最后介绍恒星级黑洞观测及其证认的最新研究进展,并做出结论:目前已经有充分的证据宣告在部分吸积X射线双星中存在恒星级黑洞。     

On the formation and evolution of black hole binaries

We present the results of a systematic study of the formation and evolution of binaries containing black holes and normal-star companions with a wide range of masses. We first reexamine the standard formation scenario for close black hole binaries, where the progenitor system, a binary with at least one massive component, experienced a common-envelope phase and where the spiral-in of the companion in the envelope of the massive star caused the ejection of the envelope. We estimate the formation rates for different companion masses and different assumptions about the common-envelope structure and other model parameters. We find that black hole binaries with intermediate- and high-mass secondaries can form for a wide range of assumptions, while black hole binaries with low-mass secondaries can only form with apparently unrealistic assumptions (in agreement with previous studies).
We then present detailed binary evolution sequences for black hole binaries with secondaries of 2 to 17 M_⊙ and demonstrate that in these systems the black hole can accrete appreciably even if accretion is Eddington-limited (up to 7 M_⊙ for an initial black hole mass of 10 M_⊙) and that the black holes can be spun up significantly in the process. We discuss the implications of these calculations for well-studied black hole binaries (in particular GRS 1915+105) and ultraluminous X-ray sources of which GRS 1915+105 appears to represent a typical Galactic counterpart. We also present a detailed evolutionary model for Cygnus X-1, a massive black hole binary, which suggests that at present the system is most likely in a wind mass-transfer phase following an earlier Roche-lobe overflow phase. Finally, we discuss how some of the assumptions in the standard model could be relaxed to allow the formation of low-mass, short-period black hole binaries, which appear to be very abundant in nature.     

A Unifying Scheme for Low-Luminosity XRBs and AGN

In recent years, significant evidence for the similar nature of active galactic nuclei (AGN) and X-ray binaries (XRBs) has been gathered. We describe a unification scheme for accreting black holes following the idea that weakly accreting systems may be jet dominated. This is tested with the radio/X-ray correlation of XRBs and AGN. The established correlation is further used to diagnose ultra-luminous X-ray sources. For higher accretion rates, we explore high-power jets and the effect of Compton cooling of the jet by the accretion disk.     

Weighing the black holes in ultraluminous X-ray sources through timing

We describe a new method to estimate the mass of black holes in Ultraluminous X-ray Sources (ULXs). The method is based on the recently discovered 'variability plane', populated by Galactic stellar-mass black-hole candidates (BHCs) and supermassive active galactic nuclei (AGNs), in the parameter space defined by the black-hole mass, accretion rate and characteristic frequency. We apply this method to the two ULXs from which low-frequency quasi-periodic oscillations have been discovered, M82 X-1 and NGC 5408 X-1. For both sources we obtain a black-hole mass in the range  100–1300 M_⊙  , thus providing evidence for these two sources to host an intermediate-mass black hole.     

A Unified Model for Black Hole X-Ray Binary Jets?

We have recently put forward a ‘unified’ semi-empirical model for the coupling between accretion and jet production in galactic black hole X-ray binaries. In this paper, we summarise this model and briefly discuss relevant considerations that have arisen since its publication.     

Surface trapping and leakage of low-frequency g modes in rotating early-type stars – I. Qualitative analysis

We summarize all the reported detections of, and upper limits to, the radio emission from persistent (i.e. non-transient) X-ray binaries. A striking result is a common mean observed radio luminosity from the black hole candidates (BHCs) in the low/hard X-ray state and the neutron star Z sources on the horizontal X-ray branch. This implies a common mean intrinsic radio luminosity to within a factor of 25 (or less, if there is significant Doppler boosting of the radio emission). Unless coincidental, these results imply a physical mechanism for jet formation that requires neither a black hole event horizon nor a neutron star surface. As a whole the populations of Atoll and X-ray pulsar systems are less luminous by factors of ≳5 and ≳10 at radio wavelengths than the BHCs and Z sources (while some Atoll sources have been detected, no high-field X-ray pulsar has ever been reliably detected as a radio source). We suggest that all of the persistent BHCs and the Z sources generate, at least sporadically, an outflow with physical dimensions 10¹² cm; that is, significantly larger than the binary separations of most of the systems. We compare the physical conditions of accretion in each of the types of persistent X-ray binary and conclude that a relatively low (10¹⁰ G) magnetic field associated with the accreting object, and a high (0.1 Eddington) accretion rate and/or dramatic physical change in the accretion flow, are required for formation of a radio-emitting outflow or jet.     

Migration of supermassive black holes in galactic nuclei

The migration of central black holes in galactic nuclei through their encounters with galactic globular clusters is studied. The black hole moves in the field of the galactic bulge with a fixed potential. The dependences of the black-hole drift amplitude on orbital parameters of the globular cluster, its mass, and bulge parameters have been found. The drift amplitude of the central black hole can reach several parsecs in our Galaxy and several tens of parsecs in early-type (Sa) and late-type (Sc) spiral galaxies.     

A stochastic model for correlations between central black hole masses and galactic bulge velocity dispersions

We consider a cosmological model in which part of the Universe, Ω_h～10^?5, is in the form of primordial black holes with masses of ～ 10⁵ M _⊙. These primordial black holes were the centers for growing protogalaxies, which experienced multiple mergers with ordinary galaxies and with each other. The galaxy formation is accompanied by the merging and growth of central black holes in the galactic nuclei. We show that the recently discovered correlations between central black hole masses and galactic bulge parameters naturally arise in this scenario.