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半人马座是一个特殊的吗?中性氢的前景

Is Centaurus A special? A neutral hydrogen perspective

Christian Struve, Raffaella Morganti, Tom A. Oosterloo, Bjorn H. C. Emonts

摘要:

由于接近,属于半人马座A的中性氢可以以高分辨率和良好的灵敏度观察到。这允许详细研究形态学和运动学,以了解这个射电声源的演变(例如合并历史,活动星系核活动)。与此同时,重要的是将结果与其他同类来源(即一般的早型星系,特别是射电星系)进行比较,以了解半人马座A如何融入早型/射电星系演化的全球图像。HI的量,形态的翘曲盘HI云周围的磁盘和定期的运动学的内部部分HI盘是不寻常的早期型星系。越来越多的证据表明,合并不一定是活动星系核活动的原因,这与观测结果相吻合,即半人马座A最近的合并事件与当前的活动阶段无关。基于这些结果,我们得出结论,半人马座A具有典型的中性氢性质的早期型和射电星系,因此,它可以-从HI的角度来看-被视为其类的一个典型例子。

英文摘要:

Due to the proximity, the neutral hydrogen belonging to Centaurus A can be observed at high resolution with good sensitivity. This allows to study the morphology and kinematics in detail in order to understand the evolution of this radio-loud source (e.g. merger history, AGN activity). At the same time, it is important to compare the results to other sources of the same class (i.e. early-type galaxies in general and radio galaxies in particular) to see how Centaurus A fits into the global picture of early-type/radio galaxy evolution. The amount of HI, the morphology of a warped disk with HI clouds surrounding the disk and the regular kinematics of the inner part of the HI disk are not unusual for early-type galaxies. The growing evidence that mergers are not necessarily responsible for AGN activity fits with the observational result that the recent merger event in Centaurus A is not connected to the current phase of activity. Based on these results, we conclude that Centaurus A has typical neutral hydrogen properties for an early-type and radio galaxy and it can therefore - from an HI perspective - be seen as a typical example of its class.

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