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天鹅座~A吸收中碳射谱线的发现

Discovery of Carbon Radio Recombination Lines in absorption towards Cygnus~A

J. B. R. Oonk, R. J. van Weeren, F. Salgado, L. K. Morabito, A. G. G. M. Tielens, H. J. A. Rottgering, A. Asgekar, G. J. White, A. Alexov, J. Anderson, I. M. Av… 展开作者

J. B. R. Oonk, R. J. van Weeren, F. Salgado, L. K. Morabito, A. G. G. M. Tielens, H. J. A. Rottgering, A. Asgekar, G. J. White, A. Alexov, J. Anderson, I. M. Avruch, F. Batejat, R. Beck, M. E. Bell, I. van Bemmel, M. J. Bentum, G. Bernardi, P. Best, A. Bonafede, F. Breitling, M. Brentjens, J. Broderick, M. Brueggen, H. R. Butcher, B. Ciardi, J. E. Conway, A. Corstanje, F. de Gasperin, E. de Geus, M. de Vos, S. Duscha, J. Eisloeffel, D. Engels, J. van Enst, H. Falcke, R. A. Fallows, R. Fender, C. Ferrari, W. Frieswijk, M. A. Garrett, J. Griessmeier, J. P. Hamaker, T. E. Hassall, G. Heald, J. W. T. Hessels, M. Hoeft, A. Horneffer, A. van der Horst, M. Iacobelli, N. J. Jackson, E. Juette, A. Karastergiou, W. Klijn, J. Kohler, V. I. Kondratiev, M. Kramer, M. Kuniyoshi, G. Kuper, J. van Leeuwen, P. Maat, G. Macario, G. Mann, S. Markoff, J. P. McKean, M. Mevius, J. C. A. Miller-Jones, J. D. Mol, D. D. Mulcahy, H. Munk, M. J. Norden, E. Orru, H. Paas, M. Pandey-Pommier, V. N. Pandey, R. Pizzo, A. G. Polatidis, W. Reich, A. M. M. Scaife, A. Schoenmakers, D. Schwarz, A. Shulevski, J. Sluman, O. Smirnov, C. Sobey, B. W. Stappers, M. Steinmetz, J. Swinbank, M. Tagger, Y. Tang, C. Tasse, S. ter Veen, S. Thoudam, C. Toribio, R. van Nieuwpoort, R. Vermeulen, C. Vocks, C. Vogt, R. A. M. J. Wijers, M. W. Wise, O. Wucknitz, S. Yatawatta, P. Zarka, A. Zensus

摘要:

我们首次探测到天鹅座A沿视线方向的碳放射性复合线吸收。观测是用低频阵列在33至57兆赫范围内进行的。这些低频射电观测为我们研究银河系中弥漫的中性气体提供了新的视角。据我们所知,这是第一次在明亮的河外背景源上观察到前景银河系复合线吸收。通过在观察到的频率范围内堆叠48条碳$α$线,我们检测到碳吸收,其信噪比约为5。平均碳吸收具有2 $\times$ 10 $^{-4}$的峰值光学深度,10 km s $^{-1}$的线宽和相对于当地静止标准的+4 km s $^{-1}$的速度。发现伴生气体的电子温度为$T_{e}\sim$ 110 K,密度为$n_{e}\sim$ 0.06 cm $^{-3}$ .这些性质意味着观测到的碳$α$吸收可能出现在银河系猎户座臂的冷中性介质中。对于4 km/s的$^{-1}$通道宽度,氢和氦谱线未检测到3 $σ$峰值光学深度极限为1.5 $\times$ 10 $^{-4}$。还搜索了与天鹅座A本身相关的无线电重组系,但没有检测到。我们设置一个3 $σ$上限为1.5 $\times$ 10 $^{-4}$的峰值光学深度的这些线为4公里秒的$^{-1}$通道宽度。

英文摘要:

We present the first detection of carbon radio recombination line absorption along the line of sight to Cygnus A. The observations were carried out with the LOw Frequency ARray in the 33 to 57 MHz range. These low frequency radio observations provide us with a new line of sight to study the diffuse, neutral gas in our Galaxy. To our knowledge this is the first time that foreground Milky Way recombination line absorption has been observed against a bright extragalactic background source. By stacking 48 carbon $α$ lines in the observed frequency range we detect carbon absorption with a signal-to-noise ratio of about 5. The average carbon absorption has a peak optical depth of 2$\times$10$^{-4}$, a line width of 10 km s$^{-1}$ and a velocity of +4 km s$^{-1}$ with respect to the local standard of rest. The associated gas is found to have an electron temperature $T_{e}\sim$ 110 K and density $n_{e}\sim$ 0.06 cm$^{-3}$. These properties imply that the observed carbon $α$ absorption likely arises in the cold neutral medium of the Orion arm of the Milky Way. Hydrogen and helium lines were not detected to a 3$σ$ peak optical depth limit of 1.5$\times$10$^{-4}$ for a 4 km s$^{-1}$ channel width. Radio recombination lines associated with Cygnus A itself were also searched for, but are not detected. We set a 3$σ$ upper limit of 1.5$\times$10$^{-4}$ for the peak optical depth of these lines for a 4 km s$^{-1}$ channel width.

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