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半人马座A复杂的北过渡区:射电结构

The Complex North Transition Region of Centaurus A: Radio Structure

Susan G. Neff, Jean A. Eilek, Frazer N. Owen

摘要:

我们提供了半人马座A内部50千秒差距的深射电图像,由卡尔G。Jansky甚大阵列(VLA),90厘米。我们专注于内部星系之间的过渡区-包括活动核,内部射电叶和恒星形成盘-和外部射电叶。我们检测到以前未知的扩展发射周围的内叶,包括无线电发射的恒星形成盘。我们发现,北过渡区的无线电响亮的一部分,被称为北中叶,是显着超压相对于周围的ISM。我们没有看到来自活动星系核(AGN)的准直流通过该区域的证据。我们的图像显示,Morganti等人(1999)作为一个可能的大规模喷流确定的结构似乎是更广泛的,弥漫的,无线电大声区域内的狭窄发射脊的一部分。这个复杂的射电脊与其他引人注目的现象相吻合:紧凑的X射线结,电离气体细丝和年轻恒星流。在北过渡区的几个短暂现象,以及外叶所需的频繁的重新流动,表明能量必须在目前的时代流经两个过渡区。我们认为能量流是以银河风的形式存在的。

英文摘要:

We present deep radio images of the inner 50 kpc of Centaurus A, taken with the Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA) at 90cm. We focus on the Transition Regions between the inner galaxy - including the active nucleus, inner radio lobes, and star-forming disk - and the outer radio lobes. We detect previously unknown extended emission around the Inner Lobes, including radio emission from the star-forming disk. We find that the radio-loud part of the North Transition Region, known as the North Middle Lobe, is significantly overpressured relative to the surrounding ISM. We see no evidence for a collimated flow from the Active Galactic Nucleus (AGN) through this region. Our images show that the structure identified by Morganti et al. (1999) as a possible large-scale jet appears to be part of a narrow ridge of emission within the broader, diffuse, radio-loud region. This knotty radio ridge is coincident with other striking phenomena: compact X-ray knots, ionized gas filaments, and streams of young stars. Several short-lived phenomena in the North Transition Region, as well as the frequent re-energization required by the Outer Lobes, suggest that energy must be flowing through both Transition Regioins at the present epoch. We suggest that the energy flow is in the form of a galactic wind.

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