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钱德拉偶然发现的牧夫座星系中的一个新的遥远的巨型射电星系

A new distant Giant Radio Galaxy in the Boötes field serendipitously detected by Chandra

Alberto Masini, Annalisa Celotti, Paola Grandi, Emily Moravec, Wendy L. Williams

摘要:

巨射电星系(GRG)是宇宙中最大的单一结构。展示出扩展的射电形态,它们的预计大小范围从0.7 Mpc到4.9 Mpc。LOFAR为GRG的发现和研究打开了一扇新的窗口,尽管今天已知的GRG有数百个,但它们的主要增长催化剂仍然存在争议。对GRG异常大小的一个自然解释是它们的年龄。在这种情况下,硬X射线选择的GRG显示出重新开始活动的证据,巨大的射电瓣大多与核源断开连接,如果有的话。在本文中,我们提出了一个遥远的($z=0.629$),中等X射线选择GRG在牧夫座领域的偶然发现。高质量,深钱德拉和LOFAR数据允许一个强大的研究之间的联系的核和叶,在一个更大的红移到目前为止无法访问的编码掩模硬X射线仪器。在这项工作中提出的GRG的无线电形态并没有重新启动活动的证据,核无线电核心频谱似乎并不像GPS。另一方面,新的GRG的X射线性质与以前用Swift/BAT和INTEGRAL在较低红移下研究的结果完全一致。特别是,从X射线光谱测得的辐射热光度比从射电瓣测得的辐射热光度大六倍,尽管很大的不确定性使它们在形式上一致于$1σ$。最后,GRG周围的中等密度的环境,跟踪星系的空间分布,支持最近的研究结果,GRG的增长主要不是由欠密度的环境。

英文摘要:

Giant Radio Galaxies (GRGs) are the largest single structures in the Universe. Exhibiting extended radio morphology, their projected sizes range from 0.7 Mpc up to 4.9 Mpc. LOFAR has opened a new window on the discovery and investigation of GRGs and, despite the hundreds that are today known, their main growth catalyst is still debated. One natural explanation for the exceptional size of GRGs is their old age. In this context, hard X-ray selected GRGs show evidence of restarting activity, with the giant radio lobes being mostly disconnected from the nuclear source, if any. In this paper, we present the serendipitous discovery of a distant ($z=0.629$), medium X-ray selected GRG in the Boötes field. High-quality, deep Chandra and LOFAR data allow a robust study of the connection between the nucleus and the lobes, at a larger redshift so far inaccessible to coded-mask hard X-ray instruments. The radio morphology of the GRG presented in this work does not show evidence for restarted activity, and the nuclear radio core spectrum does not appear to be GPS-like. On the other hand, the X-ray properties of the new GRG are perfectly consistent with the ones previously studied with Swift/BAT and INTEGRAL at lower redshift. In particular, the bolometric luminosity measured from the X-ray spectrum is a factor of six larger than the one derived from the radio lobes, although the large uncertainties make them formally consistent at $1σ$. Finally, the moderately dense environment around the GRG, traced by the spatial distribution of galaxies, supports recent findings that the growth of GRGs is not primarily driven by underdense environments.

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