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冷星系团核心电离和分子气体的积分场谱学:冷反馈的证据?

Integral field spectroscopy of ionized and molecular gas in cool cluster cores: evidence for cold feedback?

R. J. Wilman, A. C. Edge, A. M. Swinbank

摘要:

本文介绍了冷核星系团A1664、A2204和PKS 0745-191的中心星系的VLT-SINFONI K波段IFU光谱,以探测Pa-α和振转H2线发射。在A1664中,在我们以前的H-α数据中看到的两个发射线速度系统出现在Pa-α和H2发射中,具有显着的形态差异。Pa-α的红色分量的后退速度随着半径的减小而线性增加,特别是沿着与底层星系的主轴和星团X射线发射对准的8 kpc灯丝。这些运动学被建模为重力自由落体的气体迅速冷却的热相。在A2204中,气体显示出3或4个达到10 kpc的细丝,其中三个位于X射线成像中看到的“幽灵气泡”。对于PKS 0745-191,我们确认了以前窄带图像的双臂形态; Pa-α运动学表明围绕与kpc尺度射电喷流对齐的轴的旋转运动;在核上,我们发现了宽Pa-α分量(FWHM 1700 km/s)和红移+500 km/s的次级H2系统。H2 v=1-0 S(3)/Pa-α比值在孤立和扩展的区域最高,在那里它与Ferland等人模拟的NGC 1275细丝中的水平相匹配。比值较低的区域突出了活跃的恒星形成,并且通常是运动学上静止的(FWHM < 200 km/s)。我们的发现表明,这些星团可能是在Pizzolato和Soker的“冷反馈”周期的不同阶段捕获的,A1664在活动星系核加热事件之前处于极端冷却和恒星形成的短暂阶段; PKS 0745-191在与活动星系核的爆发中,活动星系核是从一个冷的气体盘中吸积出来的,而A2204则处于后期阶段,冷气体被旧射电泡的浮力上升拖出星系。

英文摘要:

We present VLT-SINFONI K-band IFU spectroscopy of the central galaxies in the cool core clusters A1664, A2204 and PKS 0745-191, to probe the Pa-alpha and ro-vibrational H2 line emission. In A1664 the two emission-line velocity systems seen in our previous H-alpha data appear in both Pa-alpha and H2 emission, with notable morphological differences. The recession velocity of the red component of Pa-alpha increases linearly with decreasing radius, particularly along an 8 kpc filament aligned with the major axis of the underlying galaxy and the cluster X-ray emission. These kinematics are modelled as gravitational free-fall as gas cools rapidly out of the hot phase. In A2204 the gas shows 3 or 4 filaments reaching 10 kpc, three of which lie towards `ghost bubbles' seen in X-ray imaging. For PKS 0745-191, we confirm the twin-arm morphology of previous narrow-band images; the Pa-alpha kinematics suggest rotational motion about an axis aligned with the kpc-scale radio jet; on nucleus, we find a broad Pa-alpha component (FWHM 1700 km/s) and a secondary H2 system redshifted by +500 km/s. The H2 v=1-0 S(3)/Pa-alpha ratio is highest in isolated and extended regions where it matches the levels in the NGC 1275 filaments as modelled by Ferland et al. Regions with lower ratios highlight active star formation and are often kinematically quiescent (FWHM < 200 km/s). Our findings suggest that these clusters may be captured in different stages of the `cold feedback' cycle of Pizzolato & Soker, with A1664 in a brief phase of extreme cooling and star formation prior to an AGN heating event; PKS 0745-191 in outburst with the AGN accreting from a cool gas disk, and A2204 in a later phase where cool gas is dragged out of the galaxy by the buoyant rise of old radio bubbles (abridged).

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