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探测红色间歇泉中的射电活动星系核信号

Detecting Radio-AGN signatures in Red geysers

Namrata Roy, Kevin Bundy, Edmond Cheung, Wiphu Rujopakarn, Michele Cappellari, Francesco Belfiore, Renbin Yan, Tim Heckman, Matthew Bershady, Jenny Greene, Kyle… 展开作者

Namrata Roy, Kevin Bundy, Edmond Cheung, Wiphu Rujopakarn, Michele Cappellari, Francesco Belfiore, Renbin Yan, Tim Heckman, Matthew Bershady, Jenny Greene, Kyle Westfall, Niv Drory, Kate Rubin, David Law, Kai Zhang, Joseph Gelfand, Dmitry Bizyaev, David Wake, Karen Masters, Daniel Thomas, Cheng Li, Rogemar A. Riffel

摘要:

利用正在进行的SDSS-IV MaNGA调查的空间分辨光谱学,发现了一类新的静止星系,它们可能具有活动星系核驱动的风。这些星系,被称为“红色间歇泉”,构成$5-10\%$的本地静止人口和特点是狭窄的双对称模式的电离气体排放功能。Cheung等人认为,这些星系拥有大规模的活动星系核驱动的风,可能在抑制恒星形成的后期发挥作用。在这项工作中,我们测试的假设,活动星系核活动是最终负责的红色间歇泉现象。我们比较了红色间歇泉的核放射性活动,以匹配的控制样品具有相似的恒星质量,红移,静止框架$NUV-r$颜色,轴比和电离气体的存在。我们利用VLA FIRST测量的1.4GHz射电连续谱数据对红色间歇泉和对照样品的射电通量进行了叠加。除了3倍高的FIRST探测率,我们发现,红色间歇泉有一个5 $σ$比对照星系的平均射电通量水平。在限制到静止坐标系$NUV-r$颜色$>$ 5和检查中红外WISE测光后,我们排除了恒星形成污染,并得出结论,红色间歇泉与更活跃的活动星系核有关。红色间歇泉和一个可能与扰动H $α$发射有关的类占所有具有$\rm log~(M_\star/M_\odot) < 11$的无线电探测到的红色星系的40%。我们的研究结果支持这样一种观点,即活动星系核的活动驱动着大尺度的相对较弱的电离风,这可能为许多早期星系提供了一种反馈机制。

英文摘要:

A new class of quiescent galaxies harboring possible AGN-driven winds has been discovered using spatially resolved optical spectroscopy from the ongoing SDSS-IV MaNGA survey. These galaxies, termed "red geysers", constitute $5-10\%$ of the local quiescent population and are characterized by narrow bisymmetric patterns in ionized gas emission features. Cheung et al. argued that these galaxies host large-scale AGN-driven winds that may play a role in suppressing star formation at late times. In this work, we test the hypothesis that AGN activity is ultimately responsible for the red geyser phenomenon. We compare the nuclear radio activity of the red geysers to a matched control sample with similar stellar mass, redshift, rest frame $NUV-r$ color, axis ratio and presence of ionized gas. We have used the 1.4 GHz radio continuum data from VLA FIRST survey to stack the radio flux from the red geyser and control samples. In addition to a 3 times higher FIRST detection rate, we find that red geysers have a 5$σ$ higher level of average radio flux than control galaxies. After restricting to rest-frame $NUV-r$ color $>$ 5 and checking mid-IR WISE photometry, we rule out star formation contamination and conclude that red geysers are associated with more active AGN. Red geysers and a possibly-related class with disturbed H$α$ emission account for 40\% of all radio-detected red galaxies with $\rm log~(M_\star/M_\odot) < 11$. Our results support a picture in which episodic AGN activity drives large-scale-relatively weak ionized winds that may provide a feedback mechanism for many early-type galaxies.

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