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MURALES调查。I.射电星系3C 459中的双AGN?

The MURALES survey. I. A dual AGN in the radio galaxy 3C459?

B. Balmaverde, A. Capetti, A. Marconi, G. Venturi, M. Chiaberge, R. D. Baldi, S. Baum, R. Gilli, P. Grandi, E. Meyer, G. Miley, C. O'Dea, W. Sparks, E. Torresi,… 展开作者

B. Balmaverde, A. Capetti, A. Marconi, G. Venturi, M. Chiaberge, R. D. Baldi, S. Baum, R. Gilli, P. Grandi, E. Meyer, G. Miley, C. O'Dea, W. Sparks, E. Torresi, G. Tremblay, INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Brera

摘要:

我们在甚大望远镜(VLT)上用MUSE摄谱仪观测了FRII射电星系3C 459(z=0.22),这是MURALES项目(MUSE射电强发射线快照巡天)的一部分。我们探测到扩散核发射和一个附加的电离气体结构,形成一个单侧的三角形区域,延伸到$\sim$ 80 kpc。中心发射线区域主要由两个相似通量的紧凑节点控制:第一个(N1)与射电核心共空间,第二个(N2)位于东南方向1.2”(5.3 kpc)。这两个区域从速度(偏移约为400 km/s)、线宽和线比的角度来看有很大的不同。这表明我们正在观测一个由射电大活动星系核和2型类星体伴星组成的双重活动星系核系统,这是最近合并的结果,也产生了其扰动的宿主形态。另一种可能性,即N2只是一个明亮的发射线结,例如,由喷流-云相互作用产生,是不利的,因为1)存在一个高电离双锥,其顶点位于N2; 2)观察到的窄线宽; 3)它的线亮度(~10^42 erg s-1)典型的发光类星体; 4)它的位置,偏离喷流路径。假定的次级活动星系核一定是高度模糊的,因为我们在钱德拉和红外哈勃太空望远镜的图像中没有检测到任何发射。

英文摘要:

We observed the FRII radio galaxy 3C459 (z=0.22) with the MUSE spectrograph at the Very Large Telescope (VLT) as part of the MURALES project (a MUse RAdio Loud Emission line Snapshot survey). We detected diffuse nuclear emission and a filamentary ionized gas structure forming a one-sided, triangular-shaped region extending out to $\sim$80 kpc. The central emission line region is dominated by two compact knots of similar flux: the first (N1) cospatial with the radio core and the (N2) second located 1.2" (5.3 kpc) to the SE. The two regions differ dramatically from the point of view of velocity (with an offset of ~400 km/s), line widths, and line ratios. This suggests that we are observing a dual AGN system formed by a radio loud AGN and type 2 QSO companion, which is the result of the recent merger that also produced its disturbed host morphology. The alternative possibility that N2 is just a bright emission line knot resulting from, for example, a jet-cloud interaction, is disfavored because of 1) the presence of a high ionization bicone whose apex is located at N2; 2) the observed narrow line widths; 3) its line luminosity (~10^42 erg s-1) typical of luminous QSOs; and 4) its location, which is offset from the jet path. The putative secondary AGN must be highly obscured, since we do not detect any emission in the Chandra and infrared Hubble Space Telescope images.

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