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冷气正在为射电星系NGC 315提供燃料吗?

Is cold gas fuelling the radio galaxy NGC 315?

R. Morganti, A. B. Peck, T. A. Oosterloo, G. van Moorsel, A. Capetti, R. Fanti, P. Parma, H. R. de Ruiter

摘要:

本文介绍射电星系NGC 315中HI吸收的WSRT、VLA和VLBI观测结果。主要结果是,两个HI吸收系统检测对中心区域。除了已知的高度红移,非常窄的组件,我们检测到相对较宽(FWZI 150公里/秒)的吸收。与系统速度相比,这个宽分量红移了~80 km/s,而窄吸收红移了~ 490 km/s。这两个HI吸收分量的VLBI观测的PC尺度空间分辨。宽分量显示沿射流的密度(或激发)和速度的强梯度。我们的结论是,这种气体是物理上接近活动星系核,虽然气体的性质,导致广泛的吸收还不完全清楚。它被射电喷流携带的可能性似乎不大。气体位于一个厚厚的环核环形结构不能完全排除,虽然它似乎很难与所观察到的形态和运动学的HI。一种可能性更大的情况是,产生广泛吸收的气体可能(直接或间接)与AGN的燃料有关,即落入核中的气体。如果是这样的话,吸积率的推导是类似于其他X射线发光的椭圆星系,虽然低于NGC 315的无线电核心光度。窄组分的密度分布是无特征的。此外,我们检测到少量的HI在发射几个千秒差距SW的活动星系核,符合微弱的光学吸收功能和速度非常相似的窄吸收。这意味着导致窄吸收的气体并不靠近活动星系核,更有可能是由落入NGC 315的云造成的。

英文摘要:

We present WSRT, VLA and VLBI observations of the HI absorption in the radio galaxy NGC 315. The main result is that two HI absorbing systems are detected against the central region. In addition to the known highly redshifted, very narrow component, we detect relatively broad (FWZI 150 km/s) absorption. This broad component is redshifted by ~80 km/s compared to the systemic velocity, while the narrow absorption is redshifted ~ 490 km/s. Both HI absorption components are spatially resolved at the pc-scale of the VLBI observations. The broad component shows strong gradients in density (or excitation) and velocity along the jet. We conclude that this gas is physically close to the AGN, although the nature of the gas resulting in the broad absorption is not completely clear. The possibility that it is entrained by the radio jet appears unlikely. Gas located in a thick circum-nuclear toroidal structure cannot be completely ruled out although it appears difficult to reconcile with the observed morphology and kinematics of the HI. A perhaps more likely scenario is that the gas producing the broad absorption could be (directly or indirectly) connected with the fuelling of the AGN, i.e. gas that is falling into the nucleus. If this is the case, the accretion rate derived is similar to that found for other X-ray luminous elliptical galaxies, although lower than that derived from the radio core luminosity for NGC 315. The density distribution of the narrow component is, featureless. Moreover, we detect a small amount of HI in emission a few kpc SW of the AGN, coincident with faint optical absorption features and at velocities very similar to the narrow absorption. This suggests that the gas causing the narrow absorption is not close to the AGN and is more likely caused by clouds falling into NGC 315.

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