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Abell 2261布里渊星系团的射电遗迹和中心黑洞的寻找

A Radio Relic and a Search for the Central Black Hole in the Abell 2261 Brightest Cluster Galaxy

Sarah Burke-Spolaor, Kayhan Gultekin, Marc Postman, Tod R. Lauer, Joanna M. Taylor, T. Joseph W. Lazio, Leonidas A. Moustakas

摘要:

我们目前的VLA图像和HST/STIS光谱的Abell 2261中最亮的星团星系(BCG)的中心内的源。获得这些观测结果是为了检验其超大扁平核心反映了其超大质量黑洞的喷射的假设。研究人员对嵌入核心的四个最明亮的“结”中的三个进行了光谱分析,以测试其中一个是否代表了与一个位移的大质量黑洞相连的恒星。这三个节点与BCG的径向速度偏移dV < ~150 km/s。纽结2和3的运动学、颜色和恒星质量与坠落的低质量星系或更大的剥离星系团成员一致。然而,纽结1的恒星速度色散存在很大的误差,这意味着我们不能排除它拥有一个大质量黑洞的假设。A2261-BCG有一个紧凑的,遗留的无线电源,从光学核心的中心偏移了6.5 kpc(投影),但没有活动的无线电核心,可以将银河系中心的黑洞精确定位到4800万年前的10 GHz通量极限<3.6 uJy. Its spectrum and morphology are suggestive of an active galactic nucleus that switched off >,平均分配条件下的磁场为15 uG。这些观测结果仍然与核黑洞已经从其核心喷射出来的假设相一致,但是定位超大质量黑洞或证明A2261-BCG缺乏一个黑洞的关键任务仍然有待完成。

英文摘要:

We present VLA images and HST/STIS spectra of sources within the center of the brightest cluster galaxy (BCG) in Abell 2261. These observations were obtained to test the hypothesis that its extremely large, flat core reflects the ejection of its supermassive black hole. Spectra of three of the four most luminous "knots" embedded in the core were taken to test whether one may represent stars bound to a displaced massive black hole. The three knots have radial velocity offsets dV < ~150 km/s from the BCG. Knots 2 and 3 show kinematics, colors, and stellar masses consistent with infalling low-mass galaxies or larger stripped cluster members. Large errors in the stellar velocity dispersion of Knot 1, however, mean that we cannot rule out the hypothesis that it hosts a high-mass black hole. A2261-BCG has a compact, relic radio-source offset by 6.5 kpc (projected) from the optical core's center, but no active radio core that would pinpoint the galaxy's central black hole to a tight 10 GHz flux limit <3.6 uJy. Its spectrum and morphology are suggestive of an active galactic nucleus that switched off >48 Myr ago, with an equipartition condition magnetic field of 15 uG. These observations are still consistent with the hypothesis that the nuclear black hole has been ejected from its core, but the critical task of locating the supermassive black hole or demonstrating that A2261-BCG lacks one remains to be done.

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