Variation of Broad Emission Lines from QSOs with Optical/UV Periodicity to Test the Interpretation of Supermassive Binary Black Holes
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| 作者 | Ji,Xiang1,2 ; Lu,Youjun1,2; Ge,Junqiang1; Yan,Changshuo1,2; Song,Zihao1,2
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| 刊名 | The Astrophysical Journal
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| 出版日期 | 2021-04-01 |
| 卷号 | 910期号:2 |
| ISSN号 | 0004-637X |
| 关键词 | black hole physics Doppler shift Quasars Reverberation mapping Supermassive black holes Time domain astronomy |
| DOI | 10.3847/1538-4357/abe386 |
| 英文摘要 | Abstract Periodic quasars have been suggested to host supermassive binary black holes (BBHs) in their centers, and their optical/UV periodicities are interpreted as caused by either the Doppler-boosting (DB) effect of continuum emission from the disk around the secondary black hole (BH) or intrinsic accretion rate variation. However, no other definitive evidence has been found to confirm such a BBH interpretation(s). In this paper, we investigate the responses of broad emission lines (BELs) to the continuum variations for these quasars under two BBH scenarios and check whether they can be distinguished from each other and from that of a single BH system. We assume a simple circumbinary broad-line region (BLR) model, compatible with BLR size estimates, with a standard Γ distribution of BLR clouds. We find that BELs may change significantly and periodically under the BBH scenarios due to (1) the position variation of the secondary BH and (2) the DB effect, if significant, and/or intrinsic variation, which is significantly different from the case of a single BH system. For the two BBH scenarios, the responses of BELs to (apparent) continuum variations, caused by the DB effect or intrinsic rate variation, are also significantly different from each other, mainly because the DB effect has a preferred direction along the direction of motion of the secondary BH, while that due to intrinsic variation does not. Such differences in the responses of BELs from different scenarios may offer a robust way to distinguish different interpretations of periodic quasars and to identify BBHs, if any, in these systems. |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 出版者 | The American Astronomical Society |
| WOS记录号 | IOP:0004-637X-910-2-ABE386 |
| 源URL | [http://ir.bao.ac.cn/handle/114a11/59052]  |
| 专题 | 中国科学院国家天文台 |
| 通讯作者 | Lu,Youjun |
| 作者单位 | 1.CAS Key Laboratory for Computational Astrophysics, National Astronomical Observatories, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 20A Datun Road, Beijing 100101, People’s Republic of China; luyj@nao.cas.cn 2.School of Astronomy and Space Science, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, No. 19A Yuquan Road, Beijing 100049, People’s Republic of China |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Ji,Xiang,Lu,Youjun,Ge,Junqiang,et al. Variation of Broad Emission Lines from QSOs with Optical/UV Periodicity to Test the Interpretation of Supermassive Binary Black Holes[J]. The Astrophysical Journal,2021,910(2). |
| APA | Ji,Xiang,Lu,Youjun,Ge,Junqiang,Yan,Changshuo,&Song,Zihao.(2021).Variation of Broad Emission Lines from QSOs with Optical/UV Periodicity to Test the Interpretation of Supermassive Binary Black Holes.The Astrophysical Journal,910(2). |
| MLA | Ji,Xiang,et al."Variation of Broad Emission Lines from QSOs with Optical/UV Periodicity to Test the Interpretation of Supermassive Binary Black Holes".The Astrophysical Journal 910.2(2021). |
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