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通过斯皮策低分辨率红外光谱揭示的作为星系红外光度函数的发光掩埋活动星系核

Luminous buried AGNs as a function of galaxy infrared luminosity revealed through Spitzer low-resolution infrared spectroscopy

Masatoshi Imanishi

摘要:

本文给出了在z > 0.15的超亮红外星系(ULIRGs)的Spitzer IRS红外5-35微米低分辨率光谱能量诊断的结果,这些星系在光学上被分类为非Seyferts星系。基于多环芳烃发射的等效宽度和硅酸盐尘埃吸收特征的光学深度,我们在这些光学非Seyfert ULIRGs中寻找本征发光但光学难以捉摸的掩埋活动星系核的签名。然后,我们将结果与z < 0.15的非塞弗特超红外星系和红外光度L(IR)< 10^12Lsun的非塞弗特星系的结果结合起来。我们发现掩埋活动星系核的能量重要性明显地随着星系红外光度的增加而增加,在L(IR)> 10{12}Lsun的ULIRGs中突然变得明显。对于具有掩埋活动星系核特征的超红外类星体来说,很大一部分红外光度可以由探测到的掩埋活动星系核和适度遮蔽(Av < 20等)的星暴活动来解释。隐藏的活动星系核对星系中球状恒星成分的隐含质量变得重要,这大致对应于本地宇宙中红色大质量星系和蓝色小质量星系的分离值。我们的研究结果可能支持广泛提出的活动星系核反馈方案作为星系缩小现象的起源,其中目前具有较大恒星质量的星系先前具有较高的活动星系核能量贡献和恒星形成起源的红外光度,并且由于较强的活动星系核反馈而更快地完成了主要的恒星形成。

英文摘要:

We present the results of Spitzer IRS infrared 5-35 micron low-resolution spectroscopic energy diagnostics of ultraluminous infrared galaxies (ULIRGs) at z > 0.15, classified optically as non-Seyferts. Based on the equivalent widths of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon emission and the optical depths of silicate dust absorption features, we searched for signatures of intrinsically luminous, but optically elusive, buried AGNs in these optically non-Seyfert ULIRGs. We then combined the results with those of non-Seyfert ULIRGs at z < 0.15 and non-Seyfert galaxies with infrared luminosities L(IR) < 10^12Lsun. We found that the energetic importance of buried AGNs clearly increases with galaxy infrared luminosity, becoming suddenly discernible in ULIRGs with L(IR) > 10{12}Lsun. For ULIRGs with buried AGN signatures, a significant fraction of infrared luminosities can be accounted for by detected buried AGN and modestly-obscured (Av < 20 mag) starburst activity. The implied masses of spheroidal stellar components in galaxies for which buried AGNs become important roughly correspond to the value separating red massive and blue, less-massive galaxies in the local universe. Our results may support the widely-proposed AGN-feedback scenario as the origin of galaxy downsizing phenomena, where galaxies with currently larger stellar masses previously had higher AGN energetic contributions and star-formation-originating infrared luminosities, and have finished their major star-formation more quickly, due to stronger AGN feedback.

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