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arXiv 2007.11283astro-ph.GA
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近邻活动星系中恒星形成与黑洞吸积之间的相互作用

The Interplay Between Star Formation and Black Hole Accretion in Nearby Active Galaxies

Ming-Yang Zhuang, Luis C. Ho

AI总结:

本文利用基于 [O II] 与 [O III] 发射线的 SFR 估计器分析近邻 1 型和 2 型 AGN,发现二者恒星形成活动存在本质差异,且 AGN 光度与 SFR 在中央 kpc 尺度呈紧密线性关系,支持 AGN 正反馈影响恒星形成。

摘要:

黑洞吸积被广泛认为会影响星系中的恒星形成,但恒星形成率(SFR)与活动星系核(AGN)性质之间存在物理相关性的经验证据仍极具争议。我们利用最近开发的一种基于 [O II] λ3727 和 [O III] λ5007 发射线的 SFR 估计器,研究了 z < 0.35 的 5,800 多个 1 型 AGN 和 7,600 多个 2 型 AGN 宿主星系的 SFR。在按光度和红移匹配后,我们发现 1 型和 2 型 AGN 具有相似的内部红化分布,这种红化非常显著,对应于约 10^9 M⊙ 的冷分子气体。尽管气体含量相当,但 2 型 AGN 独立于恒星质量、爱丁顿比率、红移或分子气体质量,表现出比 1 型 AGN 本质上更强的恒星形成活动,这显然与传统的 AGN 统一模型不一致。我们观测到 AGN 光度(吸积率)与 SFR 之间存在紧密的线性关系,并且这种关系在更小的物理尺度上变得更加显著,表明 AGN 与恒星形成之间的联系发生在中央 kpc 尺度区域。这一点,连同在超爱丁顿吸积区间 SFR 与爱丁顿比率之间的相关性,可以被解释为恒星形成受到 AGN 正反馈影响的证据。

英文摘要:

Black hole accretion is widely thought to influence star formation in galaxies, but the empirical evidence for a physical correlation between star formation rate (SFR) and the properties of active galactic nuclei (AGNs) remains highly controversial. We take advantage of a recently developed SFR estimator based on the [O II] $\lambda3727$ and [O III] $\lambda5007$ emission lines to investigate the SFRs of the host galaxies of more than 5,800 type 1 and 7,600 type 2 AGNs with $z < 0.35$. After matching in luminosity and redshift, we find that type 1 and type 2 AGNs have a similar distribution of internal reddening, which is significant and corresponds to $\sim 10^9\,M_\odot$ of cold molecular gas. In spite of their comparable gas content, type 2 AGNs, independent of stellar mass, Eddington ratio, redshift or molecular gas mass, exhibit intrinsically stronger star formation activity than type 1 AGNs, in apparent disagreement with the conventional AGN unified model. We observe a tight, linear relation between AGN luminosity (accretion rate) and SFR, one that becomes more significant toward smaller physical scales, suggesting that the link between the AGN and star formation occurs in the central kpc-scale region. This, along with a correlation between SFR and Eddington ratio in the regime of super-Eddington accretion, can be interpreted as evidence that star formation is impacted by positive feedback from the AGN.

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