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关于甚高能γ射线BL Lac天体S2 0109+22的红移

On the redshift of the very high energy γ-ray BL Lac object S2 0109+22

Simona Paiano, Marco Landoni, Renato Falomo, Riccardo Scarpa, Aldo Treves

摘要:

确定河外γ射线源的红移对于解释其发射模型、河外粒子数研究、活动星系核分类方案以及研究与河外背景光的相互作用具有重要意义。在这里,我们重点关注BL Lac S2 0109+22,最近在非常高的能量下检测到。我们在加那利大望远镜上获得了该源在4000-10000埃光谱范围内的高信噪比光谱,以寻找宿主星系和/或核源的光谱特征,并将其与以前的观测结果进行了比较,以确认和/或质疑其红移测定。我们发现S2 0 10 9 + 2 2的光谱很好地表现为幂律连续谱,没有任何等效宽度> 0.1埃的吸收或发射特征。基于新的光谱,我们能够设定一个红移下限z>0.35,假设源是由一个大质量的椭圆星系典型的这类来源。在文献中提出的红移z=0.265,很可能是指距离S2 0109 15”的r=18.3星系。这个星系可能属于一组位于z~0.26的微弱星系。

英文摘要:

The determination of the redshift of extragalactic gamma ray sources is of fundamental importance for the interpretation of their emission models and extragalactic population studies, AGN classification schemes, and to study the interaction with the extragalactic background light. Here we focus on the BL Lac S2 0109+22, recently detected at very high energies. We obtained a high signal-to-noise optical spectrum at Gran Telescopio Canarias for the source over the spectral range 4000-10000 Angstrom, to search for spectral features of the host galaxy and/or of the nuclear source and it was compared with previous observations in order to confirm and/or dispute its redshift determination. We find the S2 0109+22 optical spectrum is well represented by a power law continuum without any absorption or emission feature of Equivalent Width >0.1 Angstrom. Based on the new optical spectrum we are able to set a redshift lower limit z>0.35, assuming the source is hosted by a massive elliptical galaxy typical for this class of sources. The redshift z=0.265 proposed in the literature for this object is most probably referred to a r=18.3 galaxy at 15" from S2 0109. This galaxy could belong to a group of faint galaxies located at z~0.26.

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