发稿时间:2023-05-22浏览次数:10

USTC Astronomy Colloquium Series: 2023 Spring
AGN Continuum Reverberation Mapping
郭恒潇  博士
上海天文台
2023/05/23, 2:30pm , the 19th-floor Observatory Hall
报告人:
Dr, Hengxiao Guo obtained his PhD from the Shanghai Astronomical Observatory (SHAO)  in 2016. Before he came back to SHAO as a faculty in 2022, he was a visitor/postdoc at University of Science and Technology of China, University of California, Los Angeles/Irvine, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign from 2015 to 2022. His research interests include AGN variability,intermediate-mass black hole, reverberation mapping, supermassive black hole binary, changing-look AGN, and tidal disruption event.
摘要:
Reverberation mapping (RM) is a powerful tool to explore the unresolved central region of active galactic nucleus (AGN), e.g., accretion disk. Determining the structure of accretion disks in AGN is fundamental to understanding the growth of supermassive black holes, confirming the standard thin disk theory, and examining the X-ray reprocessing variability model. However, recent continuum RM suggests that the observed accretion disk size is around three times larger than prediction. In this talk, I will introduce our recent continuum RM results of bright AGNs in ZTF and the well-known dwarf galaxy NGC 4395. We found that the continuum lag is dominated by the diffuse continuum emission, which may account for the disk-size discrepancy. In addition, we will introduce a new method to measure the reverberation black hole mass via continuum RM.