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类星体射电响度与椭圆核问题

Quasar Radio-Loudness and the Elliptical Core Problem

Timothy S. Hamilton

摘要:

射电强和射电静类星体之间的二分法不仅仅是宿主形态的问题。虽然螺旋星系几乎只拥有无线电安静的类星体,椭圆星系可以拥有无线电响亮或无线电安静。我们发现,吸积率和主机规模的组合决定了哪种类型的类星体一个给定的椭圆星系将主机。具有高X射线光度(在0.5千电子伏时超过10^44.5 erg/s)的类星体大多数都是无线电响亮的。但是那些低光度的星系在大小上划分得相当整齐(用半光半径r_e来测量)。那些大于10千秒差距的是无线电大声,而较小的是无线电安静。最近发现,有核和无核椭圆星系也在这个极限附近分裂。这意味着,对于低光度类星体,射电强的是在核心椭圆星系,而射电静的是在无核心椭圆星系和螺旋星系。这种分离在低红移的天体上也表现得很明显,一般来说,随着时间的推移,没有核心的射电类星体会消失。由于核心的存在或不存在可能与银河系合并的历史有关,我们对射电大声和射电安静类星体之间的差异有一个进化的解释。

英文摘要:

The dichotomy between radio-loud and radio-quiet QSOs is not simply one of host morphology. While spiral galaxies almost exclusively host radio-quiet QSOs, ellipticals can host either radio-louds or radio-quiets. We find that a combination of accretion rate and host scale determines which type of QSO a given elliptical galaxy will host. QSOs with high x-ray luminosities (above 10^44.5 erg/s at 0.5 keV) are mostly radio-loud. But those with low luminosities divide fairly neatly in size (measured by the half-light radius, r_e). Those larger than about 10 kpc are radio-loud, while smaller ones are radio-quiet. It has recently been found that core and coreless ellipticals are also divided near this limit. This implies that for low-luminosity QSOs, radio-louds are found in core ellipticals, while radio-quiets are in coreless ellipticals and spirals. This segregation also shows up strongly for low-redshift objects, and in general, there is a loss over time of coreless, radio-loud QSOs. Since the presence or absence of a core may be tied to the galactic merger history, we have an evolutionary explanation for the differences between radio-loud and radio-quiet QSOs.

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