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射电强宽吸收线类星体中重新启动射电活动和尘埃发射

Restarting radio activity and dust emission in radio-loud broad absorption line quasars

G. Bruni, K. -H. Mack, F. M. Montenegro-Montes, M. Brienza, J. I. González-Serrano

摘要:

宽吸收线类星体(英语:Broad absorption line quasar,简称BAL QSO)是一种吸收相对论性外流的天体,其速度可达0.2c。这些现象在大约15%的类星体中表现为紫外线发射线蓝色一侧的吸收槽,如C iv和Mg ii。在这项工作中,我们补充了我们以前提出的无线电大声BAL类星体的样本在m和mm波段的新观测在厘米波段收集的信息。我们的目标是验证在MHz范围内存在旧的,扩展的无线电组件,并探测毫米域中的尘埃发射(与恒星形成有关)。我们从我们的样品中观察到5个源,已经呈现出低频发射的迹象,GMRT在235和610 MHz。在IRAM-30 m和APEX用测辐射热计照相机观测了其他17个源(超过样本的一半)。用GMRT观测到的所有源都呈现出几十千秒差距尺度的扩展发射。在某些情况下,这些测量使我们能够确定在SED中的第二个组件,在1.4 GHz以下的频率,超出了一个已经研究的GHz域。在毫米波段,只有一个源显示发射明确归因于尘埃。获得了其余目标的上限。这些研究结果证实,BAL类星体也可以存在于旧的无线电源,甚至在重新启动的,其中流出发射/加速的有利条件。这些外流可能是喷流的前兆的建议来自于这样一个事实,即我们的样本的约70%可以被认为是在千兆赫兹峰谱(GPS)或紧凑陡谱(CSS)+GPS阶段。这将证实其他作者提出的想法,即这些外流可以被同化形成喷流。与文献中以前的工作相比,尘埃辐射似乎比“正常”类星体中预期的要弱,这表明反馈机制可以抑制射电强BAL类星体中的恒星形成。

英文摘要:

Broad absorption line quasars (BAL QSOs) are objects showing absorption from relativistic outflows, with velocities up to 0.2c. These manifest, in about 15% of quasars, as absorption troughs on the blue side of UV emission lines, such as C iv and Mg ii. In this work, we complement the information collected in the cm band for our previously presented sample of radio loud BAL QSOs with new observations at m and mm bands. Our aim is to verify the presence of old, extended radio components in the MHz range, and probe the emission of dust (linked to star formation) in the mm domain. We observed 5 sources from our sample, already presenting hints of low-frequency emission, with the GMRT at 235 and 610 MHz. Other 17 sources (more than half the sample) were observed with bolometer cameras at IRAM-30m and APEX. All sources observed with the GMRT present extended emission at a scale of tens of kpc. In some cases these measurements allow us to identify a second component in the SED, at frequencies below 1.4 GHz, beyond the one already studied in the GHz domain. In the mm-band, only one source shows emission clearly ascribable to dust. Upper limits were obtained for the remaining targets. These findings confirm that BAL QSOs can also be present in old radio sources, or even in restarting ones, where favourable conditions for the outflow launching/acceleration are present. A suggestion that these outflows could be precursors of the jet comes from the fact that ~70% of our sample can be considered in a GigaHertz Peaked Spectrum (GPS) or Compact Steep Spectrum (CSS)+GPS phase. This would confirm the idea proposed by other authors that these outflows could be recollimated to form the jet. Comparing with previous works in the literature, dust emission seems to be weaker than the what expected in 'normal' QSOs, suggesting that a feedback mechanism could inhibit star formation in radio-loud BAL QSOs.

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