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斯蒂芬五重奏的钱德拉X射线视图:冲击和恒星形成

A Chandra X-ray view of Stephan's Quintet: Shocks and Star-formation

E. O'Sullivan, S. Giacintucci, J. M. Vrtilek, S. Raychaudhury, L. P. David

摘要:

我们使用一个深钱德拉观测检查的结构的紧凑的星系群斯蒂芬的五重星系的热群内介质。这个星系群被认为正在经历一个强烈的动力学相互作用,因为一个闯入者NGC 7318 b以约850 km/s的速度穿过星系群的核心。一个明亮的X射线脊和无线电连续辐射被解释为冲击加热的结果,并得到其他波长观测的支持。我们发现,在这个脊的气体有一个类似的温度(~0.6千电子伏)和丰度(~0.3太阳)周围的扩散发射,和硬发射组件是一致的预期从高质量的X射线双星与恒星形成的脊。脊中气体的冷却速率与目前的恒星形成速率一致,表明辐射冷却正在推动观察到的恒星形成。高温气体成分的缺乏被用来放置约束的相互作用和冲击的性质,我们发现,一个倾斜的冲击加热预先存在的灯丝HI可能是最有可能的解释的X射线气体的脊。脊中的热气体质量仅占该组热气体总质量的2%,与预测相比,这大致等于观测到的HI质量的不足。热气体成分太长了,不可能被当前的相互作用加热,这强烈表明它必须在以前的动力学遭遇中被加热。

英文摘要:

We use a deep Chandra observation to examine the structure of the hot intra-group medium of the compact group of galaxies Stephan's Quintet. The group is thought to be undergoing a strong dynamical interaction as an interloper, NGC 7318b, passes through the group core at ~850 km/s. A bright ridge of X-ray and radio continuum emission has been interpreted as the result of shock heating, with support from observations at other wavelengths. We find that gas in this ridge has a similar temperature (~0.6 keV) and abundance (~0.3 solar) to the surrounding diffuse emission, and that a hard emission component is consistent with that expected from high-mass X-ray binaries associated with star-formation in the ridge. The cooling rate of gas in the ridge is consistent with the current star formation rate, suggesting that radiative cooling is driving the observed star formation. The lack of a high-temperature gas component is used to place constraints on the nature of the interaction and shock, and we find that an oblique shock heating a pre-existing filament of HI may be the most likely explanation of the X-ray gas in the ridge. The mass of hot gas in the ridge is only ~2 per cent of the total mass of hot gas in the group, which is roughly equal to the deficit in observed HI mass compared to predictions. The hot gas component is too extended to have been heated by the current interaction, strongly suggesting that it must have been heated during previous dynamical encounters.

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