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来自银河系中心黑洞的秒差距尺度喷流的证据:与局部气体的相互作用

Evidence for A Parsec-scale Jet from The Galactic Center Black Hole: Interaction with Local Gas

Zhiyuan Li, Mark R. Morris, Frederick K. Baganoff

摘要:

尽管有强有力的物理原因表明它们应该存在,并且经过数十年的搜索,来自银河系中心黑洞的喷流,Sgr A*,尚未被令人信服地探测到。基于高分辨率甚大阵列图像和钱德拉X射线天文台产生的超深成像光谱数据,我们报告了Sgr A* 存在秒差距尺度喷流的新证据,通过将先前在银河系中心X射线图像中识别的线性特征G359.944-0.052与Sgr A West HII区域东臂上的射电激波阵面相关联。我们发现,冲击波阵面可以解释为具有沿银河系旋转轴的尖锐动量峰的喷流的影响,而G359.944-0.052,一个具有幂律谱的准稳态特征,可以被理解为来自冲击引起的超相对论电子在有限的后沿喷流路径下游的激波区。对喷流特性的几个有趣的含义进行了讨论。

英文摘要:

Despite strong physical reasons that they should exist and decades of search, jets from the Galactic Center Black Hole, Sgr A*, have not yet been convincingly detected. Based on high-resolution Very Large Array images and ultra-deep imaging-spectroscopic data produced by the Chandra X-ray Observatory, we report new evidence for the existence of a parsec-scale jet from Sgr A*, by associating a linear feature G359.944-0.052, previously identified in X-ray images of the Galactic Center, with a radio shock front on the Eastern Arm of the Sgr A West HII region. We show that the shock front can be explained in terms of the impact of a jet having a sharp momentum peak along the Galaxy's rotation axis, whereas G359.944-0.052, a quasi-steady feature with a power-law spectrum, can be understood as synchrotron radiation from shock-induced ultrarelativistic electrons cooling in a finite post-shock region downstream along the jet path. Several interesting implications of the jet properties are discussed.

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