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高红移2型QSO周围的80千秒差距莱曼α晕

An 80-kpc Lyman-alpha halo around a high redshift type-2 QSO

Daniel J. B. Smith, Matt J. Jarvis, Chris Simpson, Alejo Martinez-Sansigre

摘要:

我们宣布发现了一个与高红移的2型类星体有关的扩展发射线区域。晕,这是发现在我们的新的宽场窄带调查,居住在z = 2.85在斯皮策第一次看调查区域,并延长超过~80千秒差距。深VLBI观测表明,大约50%的射电辐射扩展到> 200 pc的尺度。活动星系核的光度足以解释扩展晕的存在,而光辐射则与射电源的触发一致。莱曼-α晕的亮度与高红移射电星系周围的一样,但是活动核在射电波长上的亮度比那些通常与扩展发射线区域相关的FRII低几个数量级。AMS 05似乎是一个高红移的类似物的射电安静类星体E1821+643,这是核心为主,但也表现出扩展的FRI样结构,并包含一个光学强大的活动星系核。我们还发现了更多的静态运动学在莱曼α发射线在光环的外部区域的证据,让人想起更强大的FRII周围的光环。光学到中红外的SED可以通过一个被遮蔽的类星体(L_bol ~3.4 +/- 0.2 x 10^13 Lsolar)和一个1.4 Gyr的简单恒星星族(质量~3.9 +/- 0.3 x 10^11 Msolar)的组合来很好地描述。

英文摘要:

We announce the discovery of an extended emission line region associated with a high redshift type-2 QSO. The halo, which was discovered in our new wide-field narrow-band survey, resides at z = 2.85 in the Spitzer First Look Survey region and is extended over ~80 kpc. Deep VLBI observations imply that approximately 50 per cent of the radio emission is extended on scales > 200pc. The inferred AGN luminosity is sufficient to ionize the extended halo, and the optical emission is consistent with being triggered coevally with the radio source. The Lyman-alpha halo is as luminous as those found around high redshift radio galaxies, however the active nucleus is several orders of magnitude less luminous at radio wavelengths than those FRIIs more commonly associated with extended emission line regions. AMS05 appears to be a high-redshift analogue to the radio-quiet quasar E1821+643 which is core dominated but which also exhibits extended FRI-like structure and contains an optically powerful AGN. We also find evidence for more quiescent kinematics in the Lyman-alpha emission line in the outer regions of the halo, reminiscent of the haloes around the more powerful FRIIs. The optical to mid-infrared SED is well described by a combination of an obscured QSO (L_bol ~3.4 +/- 0.2 x 10^13 Lsolar) and a 1.4 Gyr old simple stellar population with mass ~3.9 +/- 0.3 x 10^11 Msolar.

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