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活动星系核硅酸盐异常发射特征:基于多孔尘埃的可能解释

On the Anomalous Silicate Emission Features of AGNs: A Possible Interpretation Based on Porous Dust

M. P. Li, Q. J. Shi, Aigen Li

摘要:

最近斯皮策探测到的9.7微米硅-O硅酸盐发射的第1型活动星系核提供了支持活动星系核统一计划。硅酸盐尘埃的性质对于理解活动星系核周围模糊尘埃环的物理、化学和演化性质具有重要意义。与银河系星际介质(ISM)相比,1型活动星系核的10 μ m硅酸盐辐射轮廓变宽,峰值位置明显向长波移动。在文献中,这通常被解释为活动星系核的硅酸盐成分、大小和结晶度与银河ISM的偏差。在这封信中,我们表明,所观察到的峰移和轮廓加宽的9.7微米硅酸盐发射功能可以解释在普通的星际无定形硅酸盐,无定形碳和真空组成的多孔复合尘埃。多孔尘埃是自然预期在周围的活动星系核密集的环核区域,作为一个结果的颗粒凝聚。

英文摘要:

The recent Spitzer detections of the 9.7 micron Si--O silicate emission in type 1 AGNs provide support for the AGN unification scheme. The properties of the silicate dust are of key importance to understanding the physical, chemical and evolutionary properties of the obscuring dusty torus around AGNs. Compared to that of the Galactic interstellar medium (ISM), the 10 micron silicate emission profile of type 1 AGNs is broadened and has a clear shift of peak position to longer wavelengths. In literature this is generally interpreted as an indication of the deviations of the silicate composition, size, and degree of crystallization of AGNs from that of the Galactic ISM. In this Letter we show that the observed peak shift and profile broadening of the 9.7 micron silicate emission feature can be explained in terms of porous composite dust consisting of ordinary interstellar amorphous silicate, amorphous carbon and vacuum. Porous dust is naturally expected in the dense circumnuclear region around AGNs, as a consequence of grain coagulation.

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