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AGN突出对周围岩体的影响

Influence of AGN Outbursts on the Surrounding Galaxies

Yutaka Fujita

摘要:

我们研究了活动星系核的强烈爆发对周围星系的影响。活动星系核被假定存在于一组星系中,而爆发会在星系群中的热气体中激发出冲击波。我们计算了冲击波对星系的影响。我们发现,如果爆发的能量非常大(E_AGN ~ 6 × 10^61 erg),就像最近在星系团中观察到的那样,那么撞击的强度足以剥离星系团内部星系盘中的冷星际介质。此外,即使在星系群的外围区域,星系晕中的温暖气体也会被剥离,即使爆发的能量是~6x10^60 erg。这将减少星系的恒星形成活动。如果这些星系通过动力学摩擦落入星系群中心,而它们的星际介质是活动星系核中超大质量黑洞的燃料,那么爆发将起到反馈作用。虽然这种机制只在E_AGN非常大的时候才起作用,但在低红移的星系群中还没有观察到这样的爆发;它在高红移时起作用,而不是在低红移时。

英文摘要:

We study the influence of a strong AGN outburst on the surrounding galaxies. The AGN is assumed to reside in a group of galaxies, and an outburst excites a shock wave in the hot gas in the group. We calculate the impact of the shock wave on the galaxies. We find that if the energy of the outburst is extremely large (E_AGN ~6x10^61 erg) as the one recently observed in clusters, the impact is strong enough to strip the cold interstellar medium in the disc of the galaxies in the inner region of the group. Moreover, even in the outer region of the group, the warm gas in the halo of the galaxies would be stripped, even if the energy of the outburst is ~6x10^60 erg. These would decrease star formation activity of the galaxies. If these galaxies fall into the group centre through dynamical friction and their interstellar medium is the fuel of the supermassive black hole in the AGN, the outburst would serve as feedback. While this mechanism works only when E_AGN is extremely large, such outbursts have not been observed in groups at low redshift; it would work at high redshift rather than at low redshift.

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