UniversePub Date : 2024-06-28DOI: 10.3390/universe10070282
Minxuan Cai, Zhen Wan, Zhenyi Cai, Lulu Fan, Junxian Wang
{"title":"The Host Galaxy Fluxes of Active Galaxy Nuclei Are Generally Overestimated by the Flux Variation Gradient Method","authors":"Minxuan Cai, Zhen Wan, Zhenyi Cai, Lulu Fan, Junxian Wang","doi":"10.3390/universe10070282","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3390/universe10070282","url":null,"abstract":"In terms of the variable nature of normal active galaxy nuclei (AGN) and luminous quasars, a so-called flux variation gradient (FVG) method has been widely utilized to estimate the underlying non-variable host galaxy fluxes. The FVG method assumes an invariable AGN color, but this assumption has been questioned by the intrinsic color variation of quasars and local Seyfert galaxies. Here, using an up-to-date thermal fluctuation model to simulate multi-wavelength AGN variability, we theoretically demonstrate that the FVG method generally overestimates the host galaxy flux; that is, it is more significant for brighter AGN/quasars. Furthermore, we observationally confirm that the FVG method indeed overestimates the host galaxy flux by comparing it to that estimated through other independent methods. We thus caution that applying the FVG method should be performed carefully in the era of time-domain astronomy.","PeriodicalId":48646,"journal":{"name":"Universe","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2024-06-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141501925","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
UniversePub Date : 2024-06-27DOI: 10.3390/universe10070278
Ka-Wah Wong, Helen R. Russell, Jimmy A. Irwin, Nico Cappelluti, Adi Foord
{"title":"Prospects for AGN Studies with AXIS: AGN Fueling—Resolving Hot Gas inside Bondi Radius of SMBHs","authors":"Ka-Wah Wong, Helen R. Russell, Jimmy A. Irwin, Nico Cappelluti, Adi Foord","doi":"10.3390/universe10070278","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3390/universe10070278","url":null,"abstract":"Hot gas around a supermassive black hole (SMBH) should be captured within the gravitational “sphere of influence”, characterized by the Bondi radius. Deep Chandra observations have spatially resolved the Bondi radii of five nearby SMBHs that are believed to be accreting in hot accretion mode. Contrary to earlier hot accretion models that predicted a steep temperature increase within the Bondi radius, none of the resolved temperature profiles exhibit such an increase. The temperature inside the Bondi radius appears to be complex, indicative of a multi-temperature phase of hot gas with a cooler component at about 0.2–0.3 keV. The density profiles within the Bondi regions are shallow, suggesting the presence of strong outflows. These findings might be explained by recent realistic numerical simulations that suggest that large-scale accretion inside the Bondi radius can be chaotic, with cooler gas raining down in some directions and hotter gas outflowing in others. With an angular resolution similar to Chandra and a significantly larger collecting area, AXIS will collect enough photons to map the emerging accretion flow within and around the “sphere of influence” of a large sample of active galactic nuclei (AGNs). AXIS will reveal transitions in the inflow that ultimately fuels the AGN, as well as outflows that provide feedback to the environment. This White Paper is part of a series commissioned for the AXIS Probe Concept Mission; additional AXIS White Papers can be found at the AXIS website.","PeriodicalId":48646,"journal":{"name":"Universe","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2024-06-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141501928","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
UniversePub Date : 2024-06-27DOI: 10.3390/universe10070279
Che-Jui Chang, Jean-Fu Kiang
{"title":"Reconstruction of Fermi and eROSITA Bubbles from Magnetized Jet Eruption with Simulations","authors":"Che-Jui Chang, Jean-Fu Kiang","doi":"10.3390/universe10070279","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3390/universe10070279","url":null,"abstract":"The Fermi bubbles and the eROSITA bubbles around the Milky Way Galaxy are speculated to be the aftermaths of past jet eruptions from a supermassive black hole in the galactic center. In this work, a 2.5D axisymmetric relativistic magnetohydrodynamic (RMHD) model is applied to simulate a jet eruption from our galactic center and to reconstruct the observed Fermi bubbles and eROSITA bubbles. High-energy non-thermal electrons are excited around forward shock and discontinuity transition regions in the simulated plasma distributions. The γ-ray and X-ray emissions from these electrons manifest patterns on the skymap that match the observed Fermi bubbles and eROSITA bubbles, respectively, in shape, size and radiation intensity. The influence of the background magnetic field, initial mass distribution in the Galaxy, and the jet parameters on the plasma distributions and hence these bubbles is analyzed. Subtle effects on the evolution of plasma distributions attributed to the adoption of a galactic disk model versus a spiral-arm model are also studied.","PeriodicalId":48646,"journal":{"name":"Universe","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2024-06-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141501929","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
UniversePub Date : 2024-06-26DOI: 10.3390/universe10070277
Junjie Lu, Xin Wu
{"title":"Effects of Two Quantum Correction Parameters on Chaotic Dynamics of Particles Near Renormalized Group Improved Schwarzschild Black Holes","authors":"Junjie Lu, Xin Wu","doi":"10.3390/universe10070277","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3390/universe10070277","url":null,"abstract":"A renormalized group improved Schwarzschild black hole spacetime contains two quantum correction parameters. One parameter γ represents the identification of cutoff of the distance scale, and another parameter Ω stems from nonperturbative renormalization group theory. The two parameters are constrained by the data from the shadow of M87* central black hole. The dynamics of electrically charged test particles around the black hole are integrable. However, when the black hole is immersed in an external asymptotically uniform magnetic field, the dynamics are not integrable and may allow for the occurrence of chaos. Employing an explicit symplectic integrator, we survey the contributions of the two parameters to the chaotic dynamical behavior. It is found that a small change of the parameter γ constrained by the shadow of M87* black hole has an almost negligible effect on the dynamical transition of particles from order to chaos. However, a small decrease in the parameter Ω leads to an enhancement in the strength of chaos from the global phase space structure. A theoretical interpretation is given to the different contributions. The term with the parameter Ω dominates the term with the parameter γ, even if the two parameters have same values. In particular, the parameter Ω acts as a repulsive force, and its decrease means a weakening of the repulsive force or equivalently enhancing the attractive force from the black hole. On the other hand, there is a positive Lyapunov exponent that is universally given by the surface gravity of the black hole when Ω ≥ 0 is small and the external magnetic field vanishes. In this case, the horizon would influence chaotic behavior in the motion of charged particles around the black hole surrounded by the external magnetic field. This point can explain why a smaller value of the renormalization group parameter would much easily induce chaos than a larger value.","PeriodicalId":48646,"journal":{"name":"Universe","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2024-06-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141501927","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
UniversePub Date : 2024-06-25DOI: 10.3390/universe10070273
Helen R. Russell, Laura A. Lopez, Steven W. Allen, George Chartas, Prakriti Pal Choudhury, Renato A. Dupke, Andrew C. Fabian, Anthony M. Flores, Kristen Garofali, Edmund Hodges-Kluck, Michael J. Koss, Lauranne Lanz, Bret D. Lehmer, Jiang-Tao Li, W. Peter Maksym, Adam B. Mantz, Michael McDonald, Eric D. Miller, Richard F. Mushotzky, Yu Qiu, Christopher S. Reynolds, Francesco Tombesi, Paolo Tozzi, Anna Trindade-Falcão, Stephen A. Walker, Ka-Wah Wong, Mihoko Yukita, Congyao Zhang
{"title":"The Evolution of Galaxies and Clusters at High Spatial Resolution with Advanced X-ray Imaging Satellite (AXIS)","authors":"Helen R. Russell, Laura A. Lopez, Steven W. Allen, George Chartas, Prakriti Pal Choudhury, Renato A. Dupke, Andrew C. Fabian, Anthony M. Flores, Kristen Garofali, Edmund Hodges-Kluck, Michael J. Koss, Lauranne Lanz, Bret D. Lehmer, Jiang-Tao Li, W. Peter Maksym, Adam B. Mantz, Michael McDonald, Eric D. Miller, Richard F. Mushotzky, Yu Qiu, Christopher S. Reynolds, Francesco Tombesi, Paolo Tozzi, Anna Trindade-Falcão, Stephen A. Walker, Ka-Wah Wong, Mihoko Yukita, Congyao Zhang","doi":"10.3390/universe10070273","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3390/universe10070273","url":null,"abstract":"Stellar and black hole feedback heat and disperse surrounding cold gas clouds, launching gas flows off circumnuclear and galactic disks, producing a dynamic interstellar medium. On large scales bordering the cosmic web, feedback drives enriched gas out of galaxies and groups, seeding the intergalactic medium with heavy elements. In this way, feedback shapes galaxy evolution by shutting down star formation and ultimately curtailing the growth of structure after the peak at redshift 2–3. To understand the complex interplay between gravity and feedback, we must resolve both the key physics within galaxies and map the impact of these processes over large scales, out into the cosmic web. The Advanced X-ray Imaging Satellite (AXIS) is a proposed X-ray probe mission for the 2030s with arcsecond spatial resolution, large effective area, and low background. AXIS will untangle the interactions of winds, radiation, jets, and supernovae with the surrounding interstellar medium across the wide range of mass scales and large volumes driving galaxy evolution and trace the establishment of feedback back to the main event at cosmic noon. This white paper is part of a series commissioned for the AXIS Probe mission concept; additional AXIS white papers can be found at the AXIS website.","PeriodicalId":48646,"journal":{"name":"Universe","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2024-06-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141501930","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
UniversePub Date : 2024-06-25DOI: 10.3390/universe10070276
Nico Cappelluti, Adi Foord, Stefano Marchesi, Fabio Pacucci, Angelo Ricarte, Melanie Habouzit, Fabio Vito, Meredith Powell, Michael Koss, Richard Mushotzky
{"title":"Surveying the Onset and Evolution of Supermassive Black Holes at High-z with AXIS","authors":"Nico Cappelluti, Adi Foord, Stefano Marchesi, Fabio Pacucci, Angelo Ricarte, Melanie Habouzit, Fabio Vito, Meredith Powell, Michael Koss, Richard Mushotzky","doi":"10.3390/universe10070276","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3390/universe10070276","url":null,"abstract":"The nature and origin of supermassive black holes (SMBHs) remain an open matter of debate within the scientific community. While various theoretical scenarios have been proposed, each with specific observational signatures, the lack of sufficiently sensitive X-ray observations hinders the progress of observational tests. In this white paper, we present how AXIS will contribute to solving this issue. With an angular resolution of 1.5′′ on-axis and minimal off-axis degradation, we designed a deep survey capable of reaching flux limits in the [0.5–2] keV range of approximately 2 × 10−18 erg s−1 cm−2 over an area of 0.13 deg2 in approximately 7 million seconds (7 Ms). Furthermore, we planned an intermediate depth survey covering approximately 2 deg2 and reaching flux limits of about 2 × 10−17 erg s−1 cm−2 in order to detect a significant number of SMBHs with X-ray luminosities (LX) of approximately 1042 erg s−1 up to z ∼ 10. These observations will enable AXIS to detect SMBHs with masses smaller than 105 M⊙, assuming Eddington-limited accretion and a typical bolometric correction for Type II AGN. AXIS will provide valuable information on the seeding and population synthesis models of SMBHs, allowing for more accurate constraints on their initial mass function (IMF) and accretion history from z∼0–10. To accomplish this, AXIS will leverage the unique synergy of survey telescopes such as the JWST, Roman, Euclid, Vera Rubin Telescope, and the new generation of 30 m class telescopes. These instruments will provide optical identification and redshift measurements, while AXIS will discover the smoking gun of nuclear activity, particularly in the case of highly obscured AGN or peculiar UV spectra as predicted and recently observed by the JWST in the early Universe.","PeriodicalId":48646,"journal":{"name":"Universe","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2024-06-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141501933","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
UniversePub Date : 2024-06-25DOI: 10.3390/universe10070275
Remo Ruffini, Costantino Sigismondi
{"title":"Fitting the Crab Supernova with a Gamma-Ray Burst","authors":"Remo Ruffini, Costantino Sigismondi","doi":"10.3390/universe10070275","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3390/universe10070275","url":null,"abstract":"Here, we reconsider the historical data, assuming a gamma-ray burst (GRB) as its source. A Supernova correlated with the GRB explains well the fading time observed by the ancient Chinese astronomers in the daytime and the nighttime, while the GRB power law explains the present X-rays and GeV emission of the Crab. On the grounds of a recent understanding of the first episode of binary-driven hypernova GRB (BDHN GRB) in terms of the collapse of a ten solar masses core, we propose the possible identification of the real Supernova event at an earlier time than Chinese chronicles. This work allows a new understanding of the significance of historical astronomical observations, including a fireball due to gamma-ray air shower observation and a plague of acute radiation syndrome, documented with several thousands of victims in the Eurasian area (Egypt, Iraq, and Syria).","PeriodicalId":48646,"journal":{"name":"Universe","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2024-06-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141501932","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
UniversePub Date : 2024-06-25DOI: 10.3390/universe10070274
Viviana Piga, Marta Burgay, Andrea Possenti, Alessandro Ridolfi, Maura Pilia, Nanda Rea, Rosalba Perna, Monica Colpi, Gianluca Israel
{"title":"Serendipitous Discovery of a 431 ms Pulsar in the Background of Westerlund 1","authors":"Viviana Piga, Marta Burgay, Andrea Possenti, Alessandro Ridolfi, Maura Pilia, Nanda Rea, Rosalba Perna, Monica Colpi, Gianluca Israel","doi":"10.3390/universe10070274","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3390/universe10070274","url":null,"abstract":"We report the discovery of PSR J1646−4545, a 431 ms isolated pulsar, in the direction of the young massive cluster Westerlund 1. The pulsar was found in data taken between the years 2005 and 2010 with the “Murriyang” Parkes radio telescope in Australia. Thanks to the numerous detections of the pulsar, we were able to derive a phase-connected timing solution spanning the whole data set. This allowed us to precisely locate the pulsar at the border of the cluster and to measure its spin-down rate. The latter implies a characteristic age of ∼25 Myr, about twice as large as the estimated age of Westerlund 1. The age of PSR J1646−4545, together with its dispersion measure of ∼1029 pc cm−3, more than twice the value predicted by the two main galactic electron density models for Westerlund 1, makes the association of the pulsar with the cluster highly unlikely. We also report on ramifications from the presence of a magnetar in Westerlund 1 and the apparent lack of ordinary radio pulsars.","PeriodicalId":48646,"journal":{"name":"Universe","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2024-06-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141501931","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"FLRW Transit Cosmological Model in f(R,T) Gravity","authors":"Vijay Singh, Siwaphiwe Jokweni, Aroonkumar Beesham","doi":"10.3390/universe10070272","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3390/universe10070272","url":null,"abstract":"A Friedmann–Lemaitre–Robertson–Walker space–time model with all curvatures k=0,±1 is explored in f(R,T) gravity, where R is the Ricci scalar, and T is the trace of the energy–momentum tensor. The solutions are obtained via the parametrization of the scale factor that leads to a model transiting from a decelerated universe to an accelerating one. The physical features of the model are discussed and analyzed in detail. The study shows that f(R,T) gravity can be a good alternative to the hypothetical candidates of dark energy to describe the present accelerating expansion of the universe.","PeriodicalId":48646,"journal":{"name":"Universe","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2024-06-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141501934","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
UniversePub Date : 2024-06-23DOI: 10.3390/universe10070271
Orfeu Bertolami, Robertus Potting, Paulo M. Sá
{"title":"The de Sitter Swampland Conjectures in the Context of Chaplygin-Inspired Inflation","authors":"Orfeu Bertolami, Robertus Potting, Paulo M. Sá","doi":"10.3390/universe10070271","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3390/universe10070271","url":null,"abstract":"In this work, we discuss the de Sitter swampland conjectures in the context of the generalized Chaplygin-inspired inflationary model. We demonstrate that these conjectures can be satisfied, but only in the region of the parameter space far away from the General Relativity limit. The cosmic microwave background data had already been found to restrict the allowed inflationary potentials of this model. Our results impose a further limitation on the possible potentials.","PeriodicalId":48646,"journal":{"name":"Universe","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2024-06-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141501935","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}