Spectroscopically Resolved Orbits of Supermassive Binary Black Holes
Dr. Edi Bon (Astronomski observatorij v Beogradu) bo imel v okviru Astrodebate predavanje o binarnih sistemih črnih lukenj v torek, 29. oktobra 2013, ob 12. uri v predavalnici F3, Jadranska 19, FMF, Ljubljana. Vljudno vabljeni!
Prejšnja predavanja so na razpolago na spletni strani Astrodebate.
Povzetek predavanja:
Active galactic nuclei (AGN) are the most luminous objects in the Universe. There are many scenarios that can explain how AGN are triggered. One of the most intriguing involves the existence of a supermassive binary black hole system in their cores. AGN monitoring spectra can reveal such systems by analysing their emission line shapes and continuum flux variation.
Recently, we discovered the first orbit of sub-parsec supermassive black hole, using very long monitoring campaign spectra and a method typically used for spectroscopic binary stars. We obtained radial velocity curves from which we calculated orbital elements and made estimates about black hole masses. Given the large observational effort needed to reveal this spectroscopically resolved binary orbital motion, we suggest that many such systems may exist in similar objects even if they are hard to find. Detecting more of them will provide us with insight into the supermassive black hole mass growth process.