NGC3801被抓到了：一个合并后的恒星形成早期星系，有活动星系核喷流反馈
NGC3801 caught in the act: A post-merger starforming early-type galaxy with AGN-jet feedback
摘要：
在现有的星系形成和演化模型中，活动星系核的反馈对于再现星系光度函数、色-星等关系和M-σ关系至关重要。然而，活动星系核的反馈是否真的可以驱逐和加热大量的冷分子气体，从而淬灭恒星的形成，还有待观测证明。到目前为止，只有在四个案例中（Cen A，NGC 3801，NGC 6764和Mrk 6），X射线观测发现了喷流驱动的冲击加热ISM的证据。我们选择了最少探索的星系，NGC 3801，并提出了第一个紫外成像和恒星星族分析该星系的GALEX数据。我们发现这个早期型星系的合并遗迹有一个有趣的年轻恒星形成区（年龄从1亿到5亿年不等）的螺旋形。从尘埃/PAH，HI和CO排放图像的线索，我们解释NGC 3801有一个运动学解耦的核心或一个非常扭曲的气体盘。从HST数据中，我们还显示了类似于HI和分子气体（CO）数据中观察到的电离气体流出的证据，这可能导致了恒星形成的下降，导致星系的红色光学颜色。然而，从这些全色数据中，我们解释说，年轻的（$\sim$ 240万年）射电喷流的膨胀激波壳层尚未到达星系的外部气体区域。看来，我们观察到这个星系在其演化序列的一个罕见的阶段，合并后的恒星形成已经下降，新的强大的喷流反馈即将影响下一个1000万年内形成外盘的气态恒星，进一步将其转变为红色和死亡的早期型星系。
英文摘要：
In the current models of galaxy formation and evolution, AGN feedback is crucial to reproduce galaxy luminosity function, colour-magnitude relation and M-sigma relation. However, if AGN-feedback can indeed expel and heat up significant amount of cool molecular gas and consequently quench star formation, is yet to be demonstrated observationally. Only in four cases so far (Cen A, NGC 3801, NGC 6764 and Mrk 6), X-ray observations have found evidences of jet-driven shocks heating the ISM. We chose the least-explored galaxy, NGC 3801, and present the first ultraviolet imaging and stellar population analysisis of this galaxy from GALEX data. We find this merger-remnant early-type galaxy to have an intriguing spiral-wisp of young star forming regions (age ranging from 100--500 Myr). Taking clues from dust/PAH, HI and CO emission images we interpret NGC 3801 to have a kinamatically decoupled core or an extremely warped gas disk. From the HST data we also show evidence of ionised gas outflow similar to that observed in HI and molecular gas (CO) data, which may have caused the decline of star formation leading to the red optical colour of the galaxy. However, from these panchromatic data we interpret that the expanding shock shells from the young ($\sim$2.4 million years) radio jets are yet to reach the outer gaseous regions of the galaxy. It seems, we observe this galaxy at a rare stage of its evolutionary sequence where post-merger star formation has already declined and new powerful jet feedback is about to affect the gaseous star forming outer disk within the next 10 Myr, to further transform it into a red-and-dead early-type galaxy.
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