Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2000-08-07
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
4 pages in emulateapj.sty, no figure. Accepted by ApJ Letters
Scientific paper
10.1086/312896
There is increasing evidence for the presence of an optically thin advection-dominated accretion flow (ADAF) in low luminosity active galactic nuclei and radio-loud quasars. The present paper is devoted to explore the fate of a blob ejected from an ADAF, and to discuss its observational consequences. It is inevitable for the ejected blob to drastically expand into its surroundings. Consequently, it is expected that a group of relativistic electrons should be accelerated, which may lead to nonthermal flares, since a strong shock will be formed by the interaction between the blob and its surroundings. Then the blob cools down efficiently, leading to the appearance of recombination lines about $10^5$s after its ejection from an ADAF. We apply this model to NGC 4258 for some observational prediction, and to PKS 2149--306 for the explanation of observational evidence. Future simultaneous observations of recombination X-ray lines and continuum emission are highly desired to test the present model.
Kusunose Masaaki
Wang Jian-Min
Wu Mei
Yuan Ye-Fei
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