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星系的射电和光学定向

Radio and optical orientations of galaxies

R. A. Battye, I. W. A. Browne

摘要:

我们研究了14302个$r$星等大于18的SDSS星系的光学等照度线位置角和射电等照度线位置角之间的相关性。我们确定两个独立的人口的星系使用的颜色,浓度和它们的主成分。令人惊讶的是,强大的统计校准发现:晚型星系是压倒性的偏向$0^{\circ}$和早型星系的位置角差$90^{\circ}$。根据标准图像,这种晚型排列很容易理解,在标准图像中,射电辐射与最近的恒星形成区域密切相关。在早期类型的星系中,无线电辐射预计是由核黑洞的吸积驱动的。我们认为,所观察到的相关性的无线电轴与短轴的大尺度恒星分布的椭圆星系的结构,例如,无论是核运动学是去耦形式的星系的其余部分提供了一个基本的见解。我们的结果暗示星系是扁球体,其射电辐射与短轴成一直线。值得注意的是,射电长轴与光学短轴的相关性的强度取决于射电响度。FIRST射电流量密度与恒星总光之比低的天体,短轴相关性强,而较强的射电源则不强。这可能反映了不同物体的不同形成历史,我们认为我们可能会看到理性支撑和非旋转支撑的椭圆星系的不同行为。

英文摘要:

We investigate the correlations between optical and radio isophotal position angles for 14302 SDSS galaxies with $r$ magnitudes brighter than 18 and which have been associated with extended FIRST radio sources. We identify two separate populations of galaxies using the colour, concentration and their principal components. Surprisingly strong statistical alignments are found: late-type galaxies are overwhelmingly biased towards a position angle differences of $0^{\circ}$ and early-type galaxies to $90^{\circ}$. The late-type alignment can be easily understood in terms of the standard picture in which the radio emission is intimately related to areas of recent star-formation. In early-type galaxies the radio emission is expected to be driven by accretion on to a nuclear black hole. We argue that the observed correlation of the radio axis with the minor axis of the large-scale stellar distribution gives a fundamental insight into the structure of elliptical galaxies, for example, whether or not the nuclear kinematics are decoupled form the rest of the galaxy. Our results imply that the galaxies are oblate spheroids with their radio emission aligned with the minor axis. Remarkably the strength of the correlation of the radio major axis with the optical minor axis depends on radio loudness. Those objects with a low ratio of FIRST radio flux density to total stellar light show a strong minor axis correlation while the stronger radio sources do not. This may reflect different formation histories for the different objects and we suggest we may be seeing the different behaviour of rationally supported and non-rotationally supported ellipticals.

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