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天鹅座A射电叶附近X射线空洞的发现表明以前的AGN活动

Discovery of an X-ray cavity near the radio lobes of Cygnus A indicating previous AGN activity

Gayoung Chon, Hans Boehringer, Martin Krause, Joachim Truemper

摘要:

天鹅座A拥有一个星系团中的Fanaroff-Riley(FR)II类射电星系中最近的强大射电喷流,在那里可以详细研究喷流与团内介质(ICM)的相互作用。我们使用了大量的钱德拉档案数据,VLA和新的LOFAR观测揭示了新的光与ICM的喷流的相互作用。我们确定了一个X射线空腔的分布在X射线发射等离子体的区域南部的天鹅座A核,具有较低的压力比周围的介质。LOFAR和VLA射电观测表明,腔中充满了同步辐射等离子体。光谱年龄和空腔的浮力时间表明,年龄至少与目前的天鹅座A喷流一样大,不会比这个时间大两倍。我们认为,这个空洞是在天鹅座A的前一个活跃阶段创建的,当时活动星系核(AGN)的能量输出比今天少了大约两个数量级。

英文摘要:

Cygnus A harbours the nearest powerful radio jet of an Fanaroff-Riley (FR) class II radio galaxy in a galaxy cluster where the interaction of the jet with the intracluster medium (ICM) can be studied in detail. We use a large set of Chandra archival data, VLA and new LOFAR observations to shed new light on the interaction of the jets with the ICM. We identify an X-ray cavity in the distribution of the X-ray emitting plasma in the region south of the Cyg A nucleus which has lower pressure than the surrounding medium. The LOFAR and VLA radio observations show that the cavity is filled with synchrotron emitting plasma. The spectral age and the buoyancy time of the cavity indicates an age at least as large as the current Cyg A jets and not much larger than twice this time. We suggest that this cavity was created in a previous active phase of Cyg A when the energy output of the Active Galactic Nucleus (AGN) was about two orders of magnitude less than today.

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