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A QPO in NGC 4945 from Archival RXTE Data
The Astrophysical Journal ( IF 4.9 ) Pub Date : 2020-10-13 , DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/abb593
Evan Smith , Rebecca Robles , Eric Perlman

We report the discovery of a ~6-week quasi-periodic oscillation (QPO) in archival NGC 4945 data observed by the Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer (RXTE) satellite. QPOs are an important observable in accretion disks and have been studied extensively in both neutron star (NS) and black hole (BH) X-ray binaries (XRB). QPOs should be present in Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) if galactic black holes and supermassive black holes (SMBH) are governed by a common set of physical processes. The search for QPOs in AGN has proven difficult because the timescales would be much longer, due to their higher mass. RXTE AGN light curves spanning 1996 to 2011 provide an excellent and perhaps unique opportunity to search for low-frequency QPOs. We investigated the 533 RXTE observations made of the Seyfert-2 AGN, NGC 4945. During a large cluster of observations in 2006-2007 (194 observations, spanning 396 days), the Lomb-Scargle periodogram shows a candidate QPO at 0.274 $\mu$Hz (period $\approx$ 42.2 days). We estimate the uncertainties using the False Alarm Probability (FAP). We discuss the possible identification of this feature with the Lense-Thirring precession period.

中文翻译:

来自档案 RXTE 数据的 NGC 4945 中的 QPO

我们报告了在由 Rossi X 射线定时探测器 (RXTE) 卫星观测到的 NGC 4945 档案数据中发现了约 6 周的准周期振荡 (QPO)。QPO 是吸积盘中的一个重要可观测对象,并且已在中子星 (NS) 和黑洞 (BH) X 射线双星 (XRB) 中进行了广泛研究。如果星系黑洞和超大质量黑洞 (SMBH) 由一组共同的物理过程控制,那么 QPO 应该存在于活动星系核 (AGN) 中。在 AGN 中搜索 QPO 已被证明是困难的,因为时间尺度会更长,因为它们的质量更高。跨越 1996 年至 2011 年的 RXTE AGN 光变曲线为搜索低频 QPO 提供了极好的且可能是独特的机会。我们调查了 Seyfert-2 AGN、NGC 4945 的 533 次 RXTE 观测。在 2006-2007 年的大量观测中(194 次观测,​​跨越 396 天),Lomb-Scargle 周期图显示候选 QPO 为 0.274 $\mu$Hz(周期 $\approx$ 42.2 天)。我们使用误报概率 (FAP) 来估计不确定性。我们讨论了这个特征与 Lense-Thirring 岁差时期的可能识别。
更新日期:2020-10-13
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