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由冷分子气体追踪的年轻射电喷流的影响

The impact of young radio jets traced by cold molecular gas

Raffaella Morganti, Tom Oosterloo, Suma Murthy, Clive Tadhunter

摘要:

射电喷流的大小从几个pc到几百kpc不等,在它们的演化过程中,对它们的气体环境产生了大范围的影响。虽然它们在更大尺度上的影响已经得到了很好的证实,但现在越来越清楚的是,它们也可以强烈地影响宿主星系内的星际介质(ISM)。特别重要的是射电喷流演化的初始阶段($<10^6$ yr),当它们扩展到宿主星系的内部几千秒差距时。在这里,我们报告的结果获得了一组代表性的年轻射电星系使用冷分子气体作为示踪剂的喷ISM相互作用。ALMA和NOEMA的灵敏度和高空间分辨率是研究这一过程细节的理想方法。在许多物体中,我们发现了由等离子体喷流驱动的大量分子外流,即使是在低功率射电源中。然而,观测到的外流仅限于环核区域,只有一小部分ISM离开星系。在这个区域之外,喷气式飞机的影响似乎发生了变化。快速流出被由喷射-ISM相互作用产生的膨胀茧驱动的较温和的膨胀所取代,导致ISM分散和加热。这些发现是符合预测的喷流相互作用的clusified介质的模拟,并提出了一个更复杂的观点,AGN的影响比目前实施的宇宙学模拟。

英文摘要:

Ranging from a few pc to hundreds of kpc in size, radio jets have, during their evolution, an impact on their gaseous environment on a large range of scales. While their effect on larger scales is well established, it is now becoming clear that they can also strongly affect the interstellar medium (ISM) inside the host galaxy. Particularly important is the initial phase ($<10^6$ yr) of the evolution of the radio jet, when they expand into the inner few kpc of the host galaxy. Here we report on results obtained for a representative group of young radio galaxies using the cold molecular gas as a tracer of jet-ISM interactions. The sensitivity and high spatial resolution of ALMA and NOEMA are ideal to study the details of this process. In many objects we find massive molecular outflows driven by the plasma jet, even in low-power radio sources. However, the observed outflows are limited to the circumnuclear regions and only a small fraction of the ISM is leaving the galaxy. Beyond this region, the impact of the jet seems to change. Fast outflows are replaced by a milder expansion driven by the expanding cocoon created by the jet-ISM interaction, resulting in dispersing and heating the ISM. These findings are in line with predictions from simulations of jets interacting with a clumpy medium and suggest a more complex view of the impact of AGN than presently implemented in cosmological simulations.

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