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星系风在星系合并分子气体排放中的作用

The Role of Galactic Winds on Molecular Gas Emission from Galaxy Mergers

Desika Narayanan, T. J. Cox, Brandon Kelly, Romeel Dave, Lars Hernquist, Tiziana Di Matteo, Philip Hopkins, Craig Kulesa, Brant Robertson, Christopher K. Walker

摘要:

我们评估的影响星暴和AGN反馈驱动的风的CO排放星系合并,特别是,寻找这些风的签名在模拟CO形态和发射线配置文件。我们这样做,结合一个三维非LTE分子线辐射转移代码与平滑粒子流体动力学(SPH)模拟星系合并,包括处方恒星形成,黑洞生长,多相星际介质(ISM),与恒星形成和黑洞增长的风。我们的主要结果是:(1)银河风可以驱动质量约为10^8-10^9 Msun的外流,这可以通过CO发射线成像来成像。(2)活动星系核反馈驱动的风能够驱动成像CO流出的时间比恒星爆发驱动的风,由于更大量的能量给予ISM活动星系核反馈相比,恒星形成。(3)星系风可以控制合并后星系中CO排放的空间范围,并可能作为一个物理动机的次千秒差距尺度的CO排放半径在当地先进的合并。(4)在所有模型中,在CO发射线中均观察到速度大于圆周速度的二次发射峰。在有风的模型中,这些高速度峰值被视为优先对应于夹带在风中的流出气体,而在没有风的模型中情况并非如此。在没有风的模型中看到的高速峰值通常局限于速度偏移(从系统)< 1.7倍的圆速度,而有AGN反馈驱动风的模型可以驱动高速峰值到约2.5倍的圆速度。

英文摘要:

We assess the impact of starburst and AGN feedback-driven winds on the CO emission from galaxy mergers, and, in particular, search for signatures of these winds in the simulated CO morphologies and emission line profiles. We do so by combining a 3D non-LTE molecular line radiative transfer code with smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) simulations of galaxy mergers that include prescriptions for star formation, black hole growth, a multiphase interstellar medium (ISM), and the winds associated with star formation and black hole growth. Our main results are: (1) Galactic winds can drive outflows of masses ~10^8-10^9 Msun which may be imaged via CO emission line mapping. (2) AGN feedback-driven winds are able to drive imageable CO outflows for longer periods of time than starburst-driven winds owing to the greater amount of energy imparted to the ISM by AGN feedback compared to star formation. (3) Galactic winds can control the spatial extent of the CO emission in post-merger galaxies, and may serve as a physical motivation for the sub-kiloparsec scale CO emission radii observed in local advanced mergers. (4) Secondary emission peaks at velocities greater than the circular velocity are seen in the CO emission lines in all models. In models with winds, these high velocity peaks are seen to preferentially correspond to outflowing gas entrained in winds, which is not the case in the model without winds. The high velocity peaks seen in models without winds are typically confined to velocity offsets (from the systemic) < 1.7 times the circular velocity, whereas the models with AGN feedback-driven winds can drive high velocity peaks to ~2.5 times the circular velocity.

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