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[The核星形成对AGN气体流入的影响

[The Impact of Nuclear Star Formation on Gas Inflow to AGN

R. I. Davies, E. Hicks, M. Schartmann, R. Genzel, L. J. Tacconi, H. Engel, A. Burkert, M. Krause, A. Sternberg, F. Mueller Sanchez, W. Maciejewski

摘要:

我们的自适应光学观测附近的活动星系核的空间分辨率小至0.085角秒,显示了强有力的证据,最近,但不再活跃,核恒星的形成。我们首先描述的观察,突出两个对比的方法,气体可以流入中央几十秒差距。在这一地区的气体积累将不可避免地导致恒星爆发,我们将讨论这种事件的证据。然后,我们转向恒星演化的气体进一步流入的影响相结合的唯象方法与分析建模和流体动力学模拟。这些互补的观点描绘了一幅图景,其中所有的过程最终都受到进入中央百秒差距的质量吸积率的调节,以及随之而来的发生在那里的星爆。由此产生的超新星通过产生星暴风来延迟吸积,从而留下一种粘稠的星际介质。这提供了一个理想的环境,让较慢的恒星外流向内吸积,形成一个数秒差距尺度的致密湍流盘。这样的场景可以解决利用自适应光学看到的较大尺度结构与利用VLTI看到的小尺度结构之间的差异。

英文摘要:

Our adaptive optics observations of nearby AGN at spatial resolutions as small as 0.085arcsec show strong evidence for recent, but no longer active, nuclear star formation. We begin by describing observations that highlight two contrasting methods by which gas can flow into the central tens of parsecs. Gas accumulation in this region will inevitably lead to a starburst, and we discuss the evidence for such events. We then turn to the impact of stellar evolution on the further inflow of gas by combining a phenomenological approach with analytical modelling and hydrodynamic simulations. These complementary perspectives paint a picture in which all the processes are ultimately regulated by the mass accretion rate into the central hundred parsecs, and the ensuing starburst that occurs there. The resulting supernovae delay accretion by generating a starburst wind, which leaves behind a clumpy interstellar medium. This provides an ideal environment for slower stellar outflows to accrete inwards and form a dense turbulent disk on scales of a few parsecs. Such a scenario may resolve the discrepancy between the larger scale structure seen with adaptive optics and the small scale structure seen with VLTI.

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