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射电活动星系核周围的星系团簇

The Clustering Of Galaxies Around Radio-Loud AGNs

Hauke Worpel, Michael J. I. Brown, D. Heath Jones, David J. E. Floyd, Florian Beutler

摘要:

我们研究的假设,星系之间的合并和近距离接触,可以燃料AGN增加气体吸积向中央黑洞的速度。我们比较了星系的集群周围的无线电响亮AGN与集群周围的人口无线电安静的星系具有相似的质量,颜色和光度。我们的目录包含2178椭圆射电星系的流量密度大于2.8毫焦耳在1.4 GHz的6dFGS调查。我们发现,射电活动星系核的射电功率中值超过200倍,平均而言,有更多的密切(r<160 kpc)的同伴比他们的射电安静的同行,这表明合并发挥了作用,形成最强大的射电星系。对于固定恒星质量的椭圆星系,射电功率不是大尺度环境的函数,也不是晕质量的函数,这与椭圆星系的射电功率在数十亿年内以数量级变化是一致的。

英文摘要:

We examine the hypothesis that mergers and close encounters between galaxies can fuel AGNs by increasing the rate at which gas accretes towards the central black hole. We compare the clustering of galaxies around radio-loud AGNs with the clustering around a population of radio-quiet galaxies with similar masses, colors and luminosities. Our catalog contains 2178 elliptical radio galaxies with flux densities greater than 2.8 mJy at 1.4 GHz from the 6dFGS survey. We find that radio AGNs with more than 200 times the median radio power have, on average, more close (r<160 kpc) companions than their radio-quiet counterparts, suggestive that mergers play a role in forming the most powerful radio galaxies. For ellipticals of fixed stellar mass, the radio power is not a function of large-scale environment nor halo mass, consistent with the radio powers of ellipticals varying by orders of magnitude over billions of years.

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