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正常椭圆星系中的热星际介质。II。AGN反馈的形态学证据

The Hot Interstellar Medium in Normal Elliptical Galaxies. II. Morphological Evidence for AGN Feedback

Steven Diehl, Thomas S. Statler

摘要:

本文报道了在正常椭圆星系中X射线气体形态与射电和X射线活动星系核光度之间的一种新的定量关系。这是第二篇论文在一系列使用数据的54个对象从钱德拉公共档案馆和建立在论文I的发现,这表明,流体静力平衡在椭圆星系举行,充其量,只有近似和形状的X射线等照度线是无关的形状的引力势。相反,气体几乎总是受到不对称的扰动。在本文中,我们量化的不对称性的数量,并研究其与其他星系属性的相关性。我们还确定无线电功率,并得出我们的星系样本的X射线活动星系核光度。我们发现,在气体中的不对称性的量与活动星系核活动的两个措施,在这个意义上说,热气体是更高的无线电和X射线活动星系核光度的干扰。我们没有发现证据表明星系密度对气体形态有显着影响。然而,我们发现的证据之间的相关性气体的不对称性和热的环境气体的存在下,我们解释为一个签名的流体动力学与外部环境介质的相互作用。令人惊讶的是,活动星系核形态的联系一直持续到最弱的活动星系核光度在相当X射线微弱的星系。这是强有力的形态学证据,支持AGN反馈的普遍重要性,即使在正常的椭圆星系。

英文摘要:

We report on the discovery of a new quantitative relationship between X-ray gas morphology and radio and X-ray AGN luminosities in normal elliptical galaxies. This is the second paper in a series using data on 54 objects from the Chandra public archive and builds on the findings of Paper I, which demonstrated that hydrostatic equilibrium in elliptical galaxies holds, at best, only approximately and that the shape of the X-ray isophotes is unrelated to the shape of the gravitational potential. Instead, the gas is almost always asymmetrically disturbed. In this paper, we quantify the amount of asymmetry and study its correlation with other galaxy properties. We also determine radio powers and derive X-ray AGN luminosities for our galaxy sample. We find that the amount of asymmetry in the gas is correlated with both measures of AGN activity, in the sense that the hot gas is more disturbed in galaxies with higher radio and X-ray AGN luminosities. We find no evidence that galaxy density has significant effects on gas morphology. We do however find evidence for a correlation between gas asymmetry and the presence of hot ambient gas, which we interpret as a signature of hydrodynamic interactions with an external ambient medium. Surprisingly, the AGN-morphology connection persists all the way down to the weakest AGN luminosities in rather X-ray faint galaxies. This is strong morphological evidence that supports the general importance of AGN feedback, even in normal elliptical galaxies.

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