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z=0.30时的SDSS J0025-10:a(U)LIRG到光学QSO的转变候选

SDSS J0025-10 at z=0.30: a (U)LIRG to optical QSO transition candidate

M. Villar-Martin, B. Emonts, M. Rodriguez, M. Perez Torres, G. Drouart

摘要:

利用ATCA观测数据,利用CO(1-0)跃迁方法,研究了Z=0.30的并合双核2型类星体SDSS J 0025 - 1 - 0中分子气体的数量、空间分布和运动学特征.这是一个罕见的例子类星体的宿主星系的CO排放已解决空间在任何红移。我们推断分子气体质量M(H2)=(6 +/- 1)× 1 e9 Msun,分布在两个主要储层中,相隔约9 kpc。约60%的气体位于中心区域,与类星体核和/或两个核之间的中间区域有关。另外40%与北潮尾有关,因此不稳定。SDSS J 0025 -10具有高红外光度L(IR)=(1.1 +/- 0.3)x 1 e12 Lsun,是本地发光LIRG和ULIRGs的类似物。另一方面,明确的证据表明,正在进行的主要合并的两个气体丰富的祖先,高L(IR)占主导地位的星暴,大量的分子气体与一个大的部分仍然未解决的水库,和类星体活动的所有属性一致的过渡阶段(U)LIRG光学类星体演化的情况。我们建议,我们正在观察系统在一个特定的瞬态阶段,更先进的合并之前,原子核已经合并。我们认为,一小部分的分子气藏与潮汐矮星系在光学HST图像中确定的北部潮汐尾的尖端。这种结构的形成是通过碰撞星系的模拟来预测的。

英文摘要:

We have characterized the amount, spatial distribution and kinematics of the molecular gas in the merging, double nucleus type 2 quasar SDSS J0025-10 at z=0.30 using the CO(1-0) transition, based on data obtained with ATCA. This is one of the scarce examples of quasar host galaxies where the CO emission has been resolved spatially at any redshift. We infer a molecular gas mass M(H2) = (6 +/- 1) x 1e9 Msun, which is distributed in two main reservoirs separated by ~9 kpc. ~60% of the gas is in the central region, associated with the QSO nucleus and/or the intermediate region between the two nuclei. The other 40% is associated with the northern tidal tail and is therefore unsettled. With its high infrared luminosity L(IR) = (1.1 +/- 0.3) x 1e12 Lsun, SDSS J0025-10 is an analogue of local luminous LIRGs and ULIRGs. On the other hand, the clear evidence for an ongoing major merger of two gas rich progenitors, the high L(IR) dominated by a starburst, the massive reservoir of molecular gas with a large fraction still unsettled, and the quasar activity are all properties consistent with a transition phase in the (U)LIRG-optical QSO evolutionary scenario. We propose that we are observing the system during a particular transient phase, prior to more advanced mergers where the nuclei have already coalesced. We argue that a fraction of the molecular gas reservoir is associated with a tidal dwarf galaxy identified in the optical HST image at the tip of the northern tidal tail. The formation of such structures is predicted by simulations of colliding galaxies.

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