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Abell 1835布里渊星系团中的$10^{10}$太阳分子气体质量流

A $10^{10}$ Solar Mass Flow of Molecular Gas in the Abell 1835 Brightest Cluster Galaxy

B. R. McNamara, H. R. Russell, P. E. J. Nulsen, A. C. Edge, N. W. Murray, R. A. Main, A. N. Vantyghem, F. Combes, A. C. Fabian, P. Salome, C. C. Kirkpatrick, S.… 展开作者

B. R. McNamara, H. R. Russell, P. E. J. Nulsen, A. C. Edge, N. W. Murray, R. A. Main, A. N. Vantyghem, F. Combes, A. C. Fabian, P. Salome, C. C. Kirkpatrick, S. A. Baum, J. N. Bregman, M. Donahue, E. Egami, S. Hamer, C. P. O'Dea, J. B. R. Oonk, G. Tremblay, G. M. Voit

摘要:

我们报告ALMA早期科学观测阿贝尔1835年最亮的星系团(BCG)的CO(3-2)和CO(1-0)发射线。我们在BCG的10 kpc范围内检测分子气体的$5\times 10^{10}~\rm M_\odot$。它的系综速度廓线宽度为$\sim 130 ~\rm km~s^{-1}$ FWHM,太窄,分子云不能被动压支撑在星系中。气体可以被支撑在一个旋转的、几乎面向的湍流盘中,分子气体的大致$3-10 ~\rm kpc$被投影到原子核的西北部和东部,相对于系统速度,视线速度在$-250 ~\rm km~s^{-1}$到$+480 ~\rm km~s^{-1}$之间。高速气体可以流入或流出。然而,在稳定的流入中,没有高速气体流向核,并且在核的两侧都有双极分布,这更自然地解释为流出。恒星的形成和活动星系核的辐射都无法驱动这种量级的外流。如果是这样的话,分子外流可能与柯克帕特里克及其同事报道的更大尺度上的热外流有关。分子气体的流速近似$200~\rm M_\odot ~yr^{-1}$是可比的恒星形成率$100-180~\rm M_\odot ~yr^{-1}$在中央盘。射电泡如何在上升气流中提升稠密的分子气体,有多少气体会损失到BCG中,有多少气体会返回到未来的恒星形成和AGN活动中,这些都知之甚少。我们的研究结果意味着,无线电-机械(无线电模式)反馈不仅加热了椭圆星系和BCGs周围的热大气,而且能够将更高密度的分子气体从它们的中心扫走。

英文摘要:

We report ALMA Early Science observations of the Abell 1835 brightest cluster galaxy (BCG) in the CO (3-2) and CO (1-0) emission lines. We detect $5\times 10^{10}~\rm M_\odot$ of molecular gas within 10 kpc of the BCG. Its ensemble velocity profile width of $\sim 130 ~\rm km~s^{-1}$ FWHM is too narrow for the molecular cloud sto be supported in the galaxy by dynamic pressure. The gas may instead be supported in a rotating, turbulent disk oriented nearly face-on. Roughly $10^{10}~\rm M_\odot$ of molecular gas is projected $3-10 ~\rm kpc$ to the north-west and to the east of the nucleus with line of sight velocities lying between $-250 ~\rm km~s^{-1}$ to $+480 ~\rm km~s^{-1}$ with respect to the systemic velocity. The high velocity gas may be either inflowing or outflowing. However, the absence of high velocity gas toward the nucleus that would be expected in a steady inflow, and its bipolar distribution on either side of the nucleus, are more naturally explained as outflow. Star formation and radiation from the AGN are both incapable of driving an outflow of this magnitude. If so, the molecular outflow may be associated a hot outflow on larger scales reported by Kirkpatrick and colleagues. The molecular gas flow rate of approximately $200~\rm M_\odot ~yr^{-1}$ is comparable to the star formation rate of $100-180~\rm M_\odot ~yr^{-1}$ in the central disk. How radio bubbles would lift dense molecular gas in their updrafts, how much gas will be lost to the BCG, and how much will return to fuel future star formation and AGN activity are poorly understood. Our results imply that radio-mechanical (radio mode) feedback not only heats hot atmospheres surrounding elliptical galaxies and BCGs, it is able to sweep higher density molecular gas away from their centers.

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