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NGC 839:M82-like超级风中的冲击

NGC 839: Shocks in an M82-like Superwind

Jeffrey A. Rich, M. A. Dopita, L. J. Kewley, D. S. N. Rupke

摘要:

本文介绍了在ANU 2.3米望远镜上用宽视场摄谱仪(WiFeS)对NGC 839的观测结果。我们的数据覆盖了25”x 60”的区域,空间分辨率约为1.5”。磁场的长轴与我们在这个星暴星系中发现的超级风成一直线。数据覆盖3700-7000 nm的范围,红色的光谱分辨率为R~7000,蓝色的光谱分辨率为R~3000。我们发现,该星系的恒星成分是由一个快速旋转的中间年龄(~ 4亿年)的A型恒星星族的强烈主导,而气体集中在一个双圆锥极漏斗。我们已经产生了通量分布,发射线比诊断和速度图在发射和吸收组件。我们解释这些的背景下,一个新的网格的低速激波模型适合银河系规模的外流。这些模型非常适合的数据,提供了第一次模型诊断的冲击在超级风,并强烈表明,冲击激发是在很大程度上负责扩展LINER排放的外流气体在NGC 839。我们的工作可能有重要的影响,无论是在其他星系中看到的扩展LINER发射,以及在解释对象与“复合”光谱。最后,我们根据对NGC 839的观测,以及它与M82的关系,提出了一个E+A星系形成的方案。

英文摘要:

We present observations of NGC 839 made with the Wide Field Spectrograph (WiFeS) on the ANU 2.3m telescope. Our data cover a region 25" x 60" at a spatial resolution of ~1.5". The long axis of the field is aligned with the superwind we have discovered in this starburst galaxy. The data cover the range of 3700-7000 Å, with a spectral resolution R~7000 in the red, and R~3000 in the blue. We find that the stellar component of the galaxy is strongly dominated by a fast rotating intermediate-age (~400 Myr) A-Type stellar population, while the gas is concentrated in a bi-conical polar funnel. We have generated flux distributions, emission line ratio diagnostics and velocity maps in both emission and absorption components. We interpret these in the context of a new grid of low-velocity shock models appropriate for galactic-scale outflows. These models are remarkably well fit to the data, providing for the first time model diagnostics for shocks in superwinds and strongly suggesting that shock excitation is largely responsible for the extended LINER emission in the outflowing gas in NGC 839. Our work may have important implications both for extended LINER emission seen in other galaxies, as well as in the interpretation of objects with "composite" spectra. Finally, we present a scenario for the formation of E+A galaxies based upon our observations of NGC 839, and its relation to M82.

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