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NGC 4151核区光电离和喷流-云相互作用的最高分辨率Chandra观测

The Highest Resolution Chandra View of Photoionization and Jet-Cloud Interaction in the Nuclear Region of NGC 4151

Junfeng Wang, G. Fabbiano, M. Karovska, M. Elvis, G. Risaliti, A. Zezas, C. G. Mundell

摘要:

我们报告的高分辨率成像的塞弗特1星系NGC 4151的核获得了50 ksChandra HRC的观测。HRC图像在0.5”,~30 pc的空间尺度上分辨发射,显示出与光学线发射中观察到的窄线区域(NLR)总体一致的扩展X射线形态。去除亮点状核源和图像反卷积技术都揭示了X射线增强,与哈勃太空望远镜[OIII]图像中看到的子结构和无线电喷流中的突出节点密切匹配。我们发现NGC 4151中的大多数NLR云的[OIII]与软X射线的比率约为10,尽管云与核的距离很远。这个比率是一致的NLR中观察到的一些赛弗特2星系,这表明即使在大半径和密度作为$r^{-2}$的核风的情况下预期的一致的电离参数。在无线电节点位置的[OIII]/X射线比显示出过量的X射线发射,这表明除了光电离之外还有冲击加热。我们研究了X射线发射的各种机制,发现与更强大的活动星系核中与喷流相关的X射线发射相反,NGC 4151中观测到的喷流参数与同步辐射、同步辐射自康普顿、CMB光子的逆康普顿或星系可见光不一致。相反,我们的研究结果有利于从无线电流出和NLR气体云之间的相互作用的热发射的起源与射流的X射线发射。这支持了先前的说法,即频繁的喷流-ISM相互作用可以解释为什么塞弗特星系中的喷流看起来很小,很慢,并且是热主导的,与射电星系中的kpc尺度喷流不同。

英文摘要:

We report high resolution imaging of the nucleus of the Seyfert 1 galaxy NGC 4151 obtained with a 50 ks Chandra HRC observation. The HRC image resolves the emission on spatial scales of 0.5", ~30 pc, showing an extended X-ray morphology overall consistent with the narrow line region (NLR) seen in optical line emission. Removal of the bright point-like nuclear source and image deconvolution techniques both reveal X-ray enhancements that closely match the substructures seen in the Hubble Space Telescope [OIII] image and prominent knots in the radio jet. We find that most of the NLR clouds in NGC 4151 have [OIII] to soft X-ray ratio ~10, despite the distance of the clouds from the nucleus. This ratio is consistent with the values observed in NLRs of some Seyfert 2 galaxies, which indicates a uniform ionization parameter even at large radii and a density decreasing as $r^{-2}$ as expected for a nuclear wind scenario. The [OIII]/X-ray ratios at the location of radio knots show an excess of X-ray emission, suggesting shock heating in addition to photoionization. We examine various mechanisms for the X-ray emission and find that, in contrast to jet-related X-ray emission in more powerful AGN, the observed jet parameters in NGC 4151 are inconsistent with synchrotron emission, synchrotron self-Compton, inverse Compton of CMB photons or galaxy optical light. Instead, our results favor thermal emission from the interaction between radio outflow and NLR gas clouds as the origin for the X-ray emission associated with the jet. This supports previous claims that frequent jet-ISM interaction may explain why jets in Seyfert galaxies appear small, slow, and thermally dominated, distinct from those kpc scale jets in the radio galaxies.

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