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射电强椭圆星系中的等光子结构和尘埃分布

Isophotal Structure and Dust Distribution in Radio-Loud Elliptical Galaxies

Grant R. Tremblay, Marco Chiaberge, Carlos J. Donzelli, Alice C. Quillen, Alessandro Capetti, William B. Sparks, F. Duccio Macchetto

摘要:

我们调查的等照度特性和尘埃形态的84个射电星系的核区域,在光学和近红外成像的哈勃太空望远镜快照调查的一部分。我们提出了一个样本范围内的趋势之间的主机星系等照度线结构和尘埃环核盘在这些对象的13个中心的倾斜。我们发现,星系包含边缘上的磁盘总是被认为是拥有盒状等照度线,而圆形,面对磁盘被认为是专门在与圆形或椭圆形等照度线的对象。观察到具有盘状等照度线的富尘源仅以延长的平行线的形式拥有尘埃,而不是像盘状那样以固定的分布。由于我们不期望边缘和面对磁盘驻留在不同的星系种群,我们得出结论,感知等照度盒是依赖于观察者认为主机星系的对称轴的角度。我们讨论了我们的研究结果的背景下,耗散合并的情况下,并推断尘埃盘主要居住在旧的,盒状残留的气体贫乏的星系合并,而dustentary尘埃带居住在年轻的盘状残留的气体丰富的合并。

英文摘要:

We investigate isophotal properties and dust morphology in the nuclear regions of 84 radio galaxies, imaged in the optical and near-infrared as part of Hubble Space Telescope snapshot surveys. We present a sample-wide trend between host galaxy isophotal structure and the inclination of dusty circumnuclear disks at the centers of 13 of these objects. We find that galaxies containing edge-on disks are invariably seen to possess boxy isophotes, while round, face-on disks are seen exclusively in objects with round or elliptical isophotes. Dust-rich sources with disky isophotes are observed only to possess dust in the form of extended filamentary lanes, and not in settled distributions like disks. As we do not expect that edge-on and face-on disks reside in different populations of galaxies, we conclude that perceived isophotal boxiness is dependent upon the angle at which the observer views the host galaxy's axis of symmetry. We discuss our results in the context of dissipative merger scenarios, and infer that dusty disks primarily reside in old, boxy remnants of gas-poor galaxy mergers, whereas filamentary dust lanes reside in younger disky remnants of gas-rich mergers.

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