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径向速度<-1000 km/s的朝向M87的球状星团:第一个超高速星团

A Globular Cluster Toward M87 with a Radial Velocity < -1000 km/s: The First Hypervelocity Cluster

Nelson Caldwell, Jay Strader, Aaron J. Romanowsky, Jean P. Brodie, Ben Moore, Jurg Diemand, Davide Martizzi

摘要:

我们报告在室女星系团的M87附近发现了一个异常蓝移的天体,其蓝移速度为-1025 km/s,偏离系统速度> 2300 km/s。对光度和光谱数据的评估提供了强有力的证据,证明该天体是一个遥远的大质量球状星团,我们称之为HVGC-1,以类比银河系的超高速恒星。我们考虑,但不赞成更奇特的解释,如恒星系统绑定到一个反冲黑洞。在星系团内天体的维里化分布中观察到像HVGC-1这样极端的异常值的几率很小;它更有可能是在三体相互作用后从室女座被驱逐出去。相互作用的性质尚不清楚,可能涉及M87中心的次晕或二元超大质量黑洞。

英文摘要:

We report the discovery of an object near M87 in the Virgo Cluster with an extraordinary blueshift of -1025 km/s, offset from the systemic velocity by >2300 km/s. Evaluation of photometric and spectroscopic data provides strong evidence that this object is a distant massive globular cluster, which we call HVGC-1 in analogy to Galactic hypervelocity stars. We consider but disfavor more exotic interpretations, such as a system of stars bound to a recoiling black hole. The odds of observing an outlier as extreme as HVGC-1 in a virialized distribution of intracluster objects are small; it appears more likely that the cluster was (or is being) ejected from Virgo following a three-body interaction. The nature of the interaction is unclear, and could involve either a subhalo or a binary supermassive black hole at the center of M87.

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