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在冷却核星系MS0735 .6+7421和M87中沿射电瓣寻找冷气体

Search for cold gas along radio lobes in the cooling core galaxies MS0735.6+7421 and M87

P. Salomé, F. Combes

摘要:

本文报道了对室女星系团中一个遥远的冷核星系MS 0735.6 +7421和最近的冷核星系M87的CO观测。这两个星系都包含无线电腔,被认为是负责加热,可以调节或停止周围气体的冷却。在这个反馈过程中,沿着灯丝,沿着无线电腔的边界,仍然可能有一些气体冷却。已知分子气体存在于具有冷却核心的星系团中,在由中心活动星系核膨胀的上升气泡后面形成的细长细丝中。我们在这两个星系射电叶的几个位置上搜索了CO辐射,但只发现了上限,这对应于MS 0735.6 +7421中每个指向的冷气质量极限为10^9 Msol,而M87中每个指向的冷气质量极限为10^6 Msol。这种未被探测到的现象意味着,要么是活动星系核反馈强烈地减弱了冷却,要么是气体在非常局部的地方冷却,比如细丝状物,可能在MS 0735.6 +7421的大束流中被稀释。对M87来说,活动星系核的加热似乎已经完全停止了冷却。

英文摘要:

We report CO observations towards MS0735.6+7421 a distant cooling core galaxy, and towards M87, the nearest cooling core in the center of the Virgo cluster. Both galaxies contain radio cavities that are thought to be responsible for the heating that can regulate or stop the cooling of the surrounding gas. In this feedback process, there could still be some gas cooling along filaments, along the borders of the radio cavities. Molecular gas is known to exist in clusters with cooling cores, in long and thin filaments that can be formed behind the rising bubbles inflated by the central AGN. CO emission was searched for at several locations along the radio lobes of those two galaxies, but only upper limits were found. These correspond to cold gas mass limits of a few 10^9 Msol for each pointing in MS0735.6+7421, and a few 10^6 Msol in M87. This non detection means that either the cooling is strongly reduced by the AGN feedback or that the gas is cooling in very localized places like thin filaments, possibly diluted in the large beam for MS0735.6+7421. For M87, the AGN heating appears to have stopped the cooling completely.

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