The rms-flux relations for some observations of GRS 1915+105 are studied.The rms-flux relations of the light curves in only one state,state C or state A,can be described by the simple non-linear model provided Zhang;we thus interpret that such a linear relation reflects the relative importance of magnetic instability for X-ray emission in the corona of the system,compared to the thermal viscous instability for the X-ray emission in the accretion disk.The rms-flux relations for state B are very scattered,possibly because of the dominance of thermal viscous instability for the X-ray emission in the accretion disk.The complex rms-flux relations for the observations of transitions between two or three states are caused by the combination of the different rms-flux relations of these states.The underlying physical processes are the combination of magnetic topology in the corona and thermal viscous instability in the accretion disk.
HAN Dong1,ZHANG ShuangNan2 & SONG LiMing2 1 Department of Engineering Physics & Center for Astrophysics,Tsinghua University,Beijing 100084,China
Development of the Super High Angular Resolution Principle （SHARP） for coded-mask X-ray imaging is presented. We prove that SHARP can be considered as a generalized coded mask imaging method with a coding pattern comprised of diffraction-interference fringes in the mask pattern. The angular resolution of SHARP can be improved by detecting the fringes more precisely than the mask＇s element size, i.e. by using a detector with a pixel size smaller than the mask＇s element size. The proposed mission SHARP-X for solar X-ray observations is also briefly discussed.
GRB 090423 is the new high-z record holder of Gamma-ray bursts(GRBs) with z-8.2.We present a detailed analysis of both the spectral and temporal features of GRB 090423 observed with Swift/BAT and Fermi/GBM.We find that the T90 observed with BAT in the 15-150 keV band is 13.2 s,corresponding to-1.4 s at z=8.2.It once again gives rise to the issue of whether the progenitors of high-z GRBs are massive stars or mergers since the discovery of GRB 080913 at z=6.7.In comparison with the T90 distribution in the burst frame of the current redshift-known GRB sample,we find that it is marginally grouped into the long group(Type II GRBs).The spectrum observed with both BAT and GBM is well fitted by a power-law with exponential cutoff,which yields an Ep=(50.4±7.0) keV.The event satisfies the Amati-relation well for Type II GRBs within their 3σ uncertainty range.Our results indicate that this event would be produced by the death of a massive star.Based on the Amati-relation,we derive its distance modulus,which follows the Hubble diagram of the concordance cosmology model at a redshift of-8.2.
LIN Lin1,LIANG EnWei2 & ZHANG ShuangNan3 1 Department of Physics and Center for Astrophysics,Tsinghua University,Beijing 100084,China
We re-examine the ten Reverberation Mapping(RM) sources with public data based on the two-component model of the Broad Line Region(BLR).In fitting their broad Hβ Mlines,six of them only need one Gaussian component,one of them has a double-peak profile,one has an irregular profile,and only two of them need two components,i.e.,a Very Broad Gaussian Component(VBGC) and an Inter-Mediate Gaussian Component(IMGC).The Gaussian components are assumed to come from two distinct regions in the two-component model;they are the Very Broad Line Region(VBLR) and the Inter-Mediate Line region(IMLR).The two sources with a two-component profile are Mrk 509 and NGC 4051.The time lags of the two components of both sources satisfy tIMLR/tVBLR=V 2VBLR/V 2IMLR,where tIMLR and tVBLR are the lags of the two components while VIMLR and VVBLR represent the mean gas velocities of the two regions,supporting the two-component model of the BLR of Active Galactic Nuclei(AGNs).The fact that most of these ten sources only have the VBGC confirms the assumption that RM mainly measures the radius of the VBLR;consequently,the radius obtained from the R-L relationship mainly represents the radius of VBLR.Moreover,NGC 4051,with a lag of about 5 days in the one component model,is an outlier on the R-L relationship as shown in Kaspi et al.(2005);however this problem disappears in our two-component model with lags of about 2 and 6 days for the VBGC and IMGC,respectively.
ZHU Ling1 & ZHANG ShuangNan2 1 Department of Physics and Tsinghua Center for Astrophysics,Tsinghua University,Beijing 100084,China
