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CO IRAS 08572+3915的红外光谱

Infrared Spectroscopy of CO Ro-vibrational Absorption Lines toward the Obscured AGN IRAS 08572+3915

Mai Shirahata, Takao Nakagawa, Tomonori Usuda, Miwa Goto, Hiroshi Suto, T. R. Geballe

摘要:

我们提出了高分辨率光谱的气体CO吸收的基本振转带向严重模糊的活动星系核(AGN)IRAS 08572+3915。我们已经检测到高激发转动能级(J<=17)的吸收线。速度剖面揭示了三个不同的组成部分,其中最强和最宽的(delta_v > 200 km s-1)是由于蓝移(-160 km s-1)的气体在~ 270 K的温度下吸收高达-400 km s-1的速度。一个弱得多,但甚至更温暖(~ 700 K)的组成部分,这是高度红移(+100 km s-1),也被检测到,除了一个冷(~ 20 K)的组成部分集中在星系的系统速度。在局部热力学平衡的假设下,270 K组分中CO的柱密度为NCO ~ 4.5 x 10^18 cm-2,这对应于完全分子气体中NH 2的柱密度为NH 2 ~ 2.5 x 10^22 cm-2。CO的热激发达到所观察到的高转动能级需要大于nc(H2)> 2 x 10 - 7 cm-3的密度,这意味着即使热吸收层高度聚集,其厚度也非常小(delta_d < 4 x 10-2 pc)。与这些温暖成分相关的大柱密度和高径向速度,以及它们的温度,表明它们起源于活动星系核中央发动机附近的分子云。

英文摘要:

We present high-resolution spectroscopy of gaseous CO absorption in the fundamental ro-vibrational band toward the heavily obscured active galactic nucleus (AGN) IRAS 08572+3915. We have detected absorption lines up to highly excited rotational levels (J<=17). The velocity profiles reveal three distinct components, the strongest and broadest (delta_v > 200 km s-1) of which is due to blueshifted (-160 km s-1) gas at a temperature of ~ 270 K absorbing at velocities as high as -400 km s-1. A much weaker but even warmer (~ 700 K) component, which is highly redshifted (+100 km s-1), is also detected, in addition to a cold (~ 20 K) component centered at the systemic velocity of the galaxy. On the assumption of local thermodynamic equilibrium, the column density of CO in the 270 K component is NCO ~ 4.5 x 10^18 cm-2, which in fully molecular gas corresponds to a H2 column density of NH2 ~ 2.5 x 10^22 cm-2. The thermal excitation of CO up to the observed high rotational levels requires a density greater than nc(H2) > 2 x 10^7 cm-3, implying that the thickness of the warm absorbing layer is extremely small (delta_d < 4 x 10-2 pc) even if it is highly clumped. The large column densities and high radial velocities associated with these warm components, as well as their temperatures, indicate that they originate in molecular clouds near the central engine of the AGN.

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