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GALAxies(NUGA)核中的分子气体:IX。NGC 2782中的解耦棒和气体流入

Molecular Gas in NUclei of GAlaxies (NUGA): IX. The decoupled bars and gas inflow in NGC 2782

L. K. Hunt, F. Combes, S. García-Burillo, E. Schinnerer, M. Krips, A. J. Baker, F. Boone, A. Eckart, S. Léon, R. Neri, L. J. Tacconi

摘要:

本文给出了用IRAM干涉仪获得的星暴/塞弗特1星系NGC 2782的CO(1-0)和CO(2-1)图。CO发射沿着半径为1千秒差距的恒星核棒排列,配置在一个细长的结构中,具有两个高螺距角的螺旋臂。在核棒的末端,CO改变方向,以较低的俯仰角追踪两个更扩展的螺旋特征。这是两条直线尘埃带的开始,它们平行于椭圆形的扭曲,让人想起主棒,几乎垂直于核棒。这两个嵌入的条形出现在斯皮策IRAC近红外图像和HST彩色图像中,尽管后者被灰尘高度模糊。我们计算了恒星棒对气体施加的扭矩,并发现系统性的负平均扭矩下降到图像的分辨率极限,提供了气体流入NGC 2782的核附近的证据。数值模拟,包括气体耗散,预测二次酒吧去耦,形成一个细长的环在1千帕的半径内Lindblad共振(ILR)的主酒吧,和气体流入ILR的核酒吧的观察得到很好的再现。主棒的ILR内部存在分子气体,由第二个核棒传输,是一个潜在的“确凿证据”;那里的气体肯定会为中央星暴提供燃料,并且在第二步中可以直接为活动星系核提供燃料。

英文摘要:

We present CO(1-0) and CO(2-1) maps of the starburst/Seyfert 1 galaxy NGC 2782, obtained with the IRAM interferometer. The CO emission is aligned along the stellar nuclear bar of radius 1 kpc, configured in an elongated structure with two spiral arms at high pitch angle. At the extremity of the nuclear bar, the CO changes direction to trace two more extended spiral features at a lower pitch angle. These are the beginning of two straight dust lanes, which are aligned parallel to an oval distortion, reminiscent of a primary bar, almost perpendicular to the nuclear one. The two embedded bars appear in Spitzer IRAC near-infrared images, and HST color images, although highly obscured by dust in the latter. We compute the torques exerted by the stellar bars on the gas, and find systematically negative average torques down to the resolution limit of the images, providing evidence of gas inflow tantalizingly close to the nucleus of NGC 2782. The observations are well reproduced by numerical simulations, including gas dissipation, which predict the secondary bar decoupling, the formation of an elongated ring at the 1 kpc-radius Inner Lindblad Resonance (ILR) of the primary bar, and the gas inflow to the ILR of the nuclear bar. The presence of molecular gas inside the ILR of the primary bar, transported by a second nuclear bar, is a potential ``smoking gun''; the gas there is certainly fueling the central starburst, and in a second step could fuel directly the AGN.

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