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arXiv 2006.09388astro-ph.GA
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SAGAN-II:巨射电星系的分子气体含量

SAGAN-II : Molecular gas content of giant radio galaxies

Pratik Dabhade, Francoise Combes, Philippe Salome, Joydeep Bagchi, Mousumi Mahato

摘要:

具有相对论性粒子喷流的射电星系通常是由大质量椭圆星系所承载的,椭圆星系的活动核是由星际物质吸积到超大质量黑洞上而提供动力的。在一些罕见的情况下(<5%),它们的喷流将整体结构驱动到大于700 kpc的尺寸,它们被称为巨型射电星系(GRG)。在这些射电星系中,只有一小部分含有分子和原子气体,这些气体以环或盘的形式存在,可以为恒星的形成提供燃料。这种气体的起源并不为人所知,有时它与富含气体的盘星系(例如半人马座A)的小型合并或来自热X射线大气的物质冷却(例如冷却流)有关。巨大的射电喷流可能是这些天体的极端演化,它们可以告诉我们射电星系的演化。我们从820个可能处于气体吸积和恒星形成阶段的GRG目录中选择了12个目标。目标是从中红外线中选择的,以包含加热的尘埃。我们在这里报告的IRAM-30米的观测结果,分子气体含量,和恒星形成效率,我们讨论的气体和盘形态的起源。我们的12个目标中有3个被检测到,对于其他目标,我们报告了显着的上限。我们结合我们的三个检测和上限与四个额外的检测GRG从文献中讨论的结果。大多数GRG目标属于主序列,并且很大一部分处于被动域。它们的恒星形成效率与正常星系相当,除了两个缺乏分子气体且耗尽时间短(约2亿年)的星系和一个静止的富含气体的巨型螺旋星系。一般来说,耗尽时间比巨型射电喷流的寿命长得多。

英文摘要:

Radio galaxies with jets of relativistic particles are usually hosted by massive elliptical galaxies with active nuclei powered by accretion of interstellar matter onto a supermassive black hole. In some rare cases (<5%), their jets drive the overall structure to sizes larger than 700 kpc, and they are called giant radio galaxies (GRGs). A very small fraction of the population of such radio galaxies contains molecular and atomic gas in the form of rings or discs that can fuel star formation. The origin of this gas is not well known; it has sometimes been associated with a minor merger with a gas-rich disc galaxy (e.g. Centaurus A) or cooling of material from a hot X-ray atmosphere (e.g. cooling flows). The giant radio jets might be the extreme evolution of these objects, and they can teach us about the radio galaxy evolution. We selected 12 targets from a catalogue of 820 GRGs that are likely to be in a gas-accretion and star formation phase. The targets were selected from the mid-infrared to contain heated dust. We report here the results of IRAM-30m observations, the molecular gas content, and the star formation efficiency, and we discuss the origin of the gas and disc morphology. Three out of our 12 targets are detected, and for the others, we report significant upper limits. We combine our three detections and upper limits with four additional detected GRGs from the literature to discuss the results. Most of the GRG targets belong to the main sequence, and a large fraction are in the passive domain. Their star formation efficiency is comparable to normal galaxies, except for two galaxies that are deficient in molecular gas with a short (~200Myr) depletion time, and a quiescent gas-rich giant spiral galaxy. In general, the depletion time is much longer than the lifetime of the giant radio jet.

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