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早型场星系中的热气晕

Hot Gas Halos in Early-Type Field Galaxies

John S. Mulchaey, Tesla E. Jeltema

摘要:

本文利用Chandra和XMM-牛顿方法研究了一个场早型星系样品中的热气体含量。我们发现,场星系的L_X-L_K关系比星系团和星系团中的类似星系要陡。LK <Lstar的场星系的低热气含量表明,低质量星系的内部过程,如超新星驱动的风或活动星系核反馈驱逐热气。这样的机制可能是不太有效的组和集群中的组内或集群内介质的存在下,可以限制流出的材料。此外,星系群和星系团中的星系可能能够从周围介质中吸积气体。虽然在保留热气晕的星系群和星系团中存在着大量的L_K < L_恒星星系,但在这些丰富环境中的一些星系,包括更明亮的星系,基本上没有热气。在这些情况下,热气体晕很可能已经通过冲压压力汽提去除。这表明,在丰富的环境中,星系的群内/群内介质和热气晕之间存在着非常复杂的相互作用,环境介质在某些情况下有助于限制甚至增强晕,而在其他情况下则有助于去除气体。相比之下,更孤立的星系的热气含量主要是星系质量的函数,更大质量的星系能够保持它们的晕,而在较低质量的系统中,热气会在外流风中逃逸。

英文摘要:

We use Chandra and XMM-Newton to study the hot gas content in a sample of field early-type galaxies. We find that the L_X-L_K relationship is steeper for field galaxies than for comparable galaxies in groups and clusters. The low hot gas content of field galaxies with L_K < L_star suggests that internal processes such as supernovae driven winds or AGN feedback expel hot gas from low mass galaxies. Such mechanisms may be less effective in groups and clusters where the presence of an intragroup or intracluster medium can confine outflowing material. In addition, galaxies in groups and clusters may be able to accrete gas from the ambient medium. While there is a population of L_K < L_star galaxies in groups and clusters that retain hot gas halos, some galaxies in these rich environments, including brighter galaxies, are largely devoid of hot gas. In these cases, the hot gas halos have likely been removed via ram pressure stripping. This suggests a very complex interplay between the intragroup/intracluster medium and hot gas halos of galaxies in rich environments with the ambient medium helping to confine or even enhance the halos in some cases and acting to remove gas in others. In contrast, the hot gas content of more isolated galaxies is largely a function of the mass of the galaxy, with more massive galaxies able to maintain their halos, while in lower mass systems the hot gas escapes in outflowing winds.

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