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在几何平坦的静止星系中没有射电大的活动星系核:对维持模反馈模型的影响

An Absence of Radio-Loud Active Galactic Nuclei in Geometrically Flat Quiescent Galaxies: Implications for Maintenance-Mode Feedback Models

Ivana Barišić, Arjen van der Wel, Josha van Houdt, Michael V. Maseda, Eric F. Bell, Rachel Bezanson, Yu-Yen Chang, Huub Röttgering, Glenn van de Ven, Po-Feng Wu

摘要:

来自低吸积率活动星系核的维持模式反馈,在观测上通过射电响度表现出来,在所有的宇宙学星系形成模型中都被认为是防止大质量星系过度恒星形成的一种机制(M $_*$ $\gtrsim$ 3 $\times$ 10 $^{10}$ M $_{\odot}$)。我们证明,在一个固定的质量的无线电大声活动星系核(L $>$ 10 $^{23}$ WHz $^{- 1}$)的发生率确定在第一和NVSS射电巡天的大样本的静止(非恒星形成)星系中选择的SDSS是高得多的几何圆形星系比几何平坦,盘状星系。如前所述,RL活动星系核的比例随着恒星速度色散$σ_*$和恒星质量的增加而急剧增加,但即使在200-250 km的固定速度色散$^{-1}$下,这一比例也会从平坦星系的0.3%(投影轴比q $<$ 0.4)增加到圆形星系的5%(q $>$ 0.8)。我们排除了这种强烈的趋势是由于在测量的速度分散的投影效应。在大质量的圆形星系中,有很大一部分射电噪声的活动星系核与这样的假设是一致的,即活动星系核将能量沉积到它们的热气晕中,阻止冷却和恒星形成。然而,在盘状静止星系中没有这样的活动星系核--其中大多数不是大质量星系团中的卫星,这提出了重要的问题:维持模式反馈是静止的一个普遍有效的解释吗?如果是的话,这种反馈如何避免至少偶尔表现为一个无线电响亮的星系?

英文摘要:

Maintenance-mode feedback from low-accretion rate AGN, manifesting itself observationally through radio-loudness, is invoked in all cosmological galaxy formation models as a mechanism that prevents excessive star-formation in massive galaxies (M$_*$ $\gtrsim$ 3$\times$10$^{10}$ M$_{\odot}$). We demonstrate that at a fixed mass the incidence of radio-loud AGN (L $>$ 10$^{23}$ WHz$^{- 1}$) identified in the FIRST and NVSS radio surveys among a large sample of quiescent (non-star forming) galaxies selected from the SDSS is much higher in geometrically round galaxies than in geometrically flat, disk-like galaxies. As found previously, the RL AGN fraction increases steeply with stellar velocity dispersion $σ_*$ and stellar mass, but even at a fixed velocity dispersion of 200-250 kms$^{-1}$ this fraction increases from 0.3% for flat galaxies (projected axis ratio of q $<$ 0.4) to 5% for round galaxies (q $>$ 0.8). We rule out that this strong trend is due to projection effects in the measured velocity dispersion. The large fraction of radio-loud AGN in massive, round galaxies is consistent with the hypothesis that such AGN deposit energy into their hot gaseous halos, preventing cooling and star-formation. However, the absence of such AGN in disk-like quiescent galaxies -- most of which are not satellites in massive clusters, raises important questions: is maintenance-mode feedback a generally valid explanation for quiescence; and, if so, how does that feedback avoid manifesting at least occasionally as a radio-loud galaxy?

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