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活动星系的高分辨率分子线观测

High-resolution molecular line observations of active galaxies

S. Garcia-Burillo, F. Combes, A. Usero, J. Gracia-Carpio

摘要:

星际气体的含量、分布和运动学研究是理解星系中星暴和活动星系核(AGN)活动起源和维持的关键。活动星系核的加燃料过程包含了广泛的时间和空间尺度,需要研究。探测从外盘向下到活动星系核主机中央发动机的气体流动,需要使用适合于跟踪气体相位随半径变化的星际介质的特定示踪剂。目前的毫米干涉仪可以提供一个清晰的视图的分子气体的分布和运动学在星系的环核盘通过广泛的CO线映射。因此,CO图是研究活动星系核在本机宇宙中的馈送机制的重要工具。这是银河系核(NUGA)调查的科学驱动力,其最新结果在这里进行了审查。另一方面,使用致密气相的特定分子示踪剂可以探测活动对附近星系的星际介质中的化学和能量平衡/再分配的反馈影响。毫米波干涉仪能够揭示附近星暴和活动星系核的分子气体盘中存在的强烈化学差异。附近的活动星系可以作为本地模板,以解决更遥远的星系,恒星形成和活动星系核活动都深深嵌入的研究。

英文摘要:

The study of the content, distribution and kinematics of interstellar gas is a key to understand the origin and maintenance of both starburst and nuclear (AGN) activity in galaxies. The processes involved in AGN fueling encompass a wide range of scales, both spatial and temporal, which have to be studied. Probing the gas flow from the outer disk down to the central engine of an AGN host, requires the use of specific tracers of the interstellar medium adapted to follow the change of phase of the gas as a function of radius. Current mm-interferometers can provide a sharp view of the distribution and kinematics of molecular gas in the circumnuclear disks of galaxies through extensive CO line mapping. As such, CO maps are an essential tool to study AGN feeding mechanisms in the local universe. This is the scientific driver of the NUclei of GAlaxies (NUGA) survey, whose latest results are here reviewed. On the other hand, the use of specific molecular tracers of the dense gas phase can probe the feedback influence of activity on the chemistry and energy balance/redistribution in the interstellar medium of nearby galaxies. Millimeter interferometers are able to unveil the strong chemical differentiation present in the molecular gas disks of nearby starbursts and AGNs. Nearby active galaxies can be used as local templates to address the study of more distant galaxies where both star formation and AGN activity are deeply embedded.

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