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一个诞生于星系合并中的快速射电暴祖先

A fast radio burst progenitor born in a galaxy merger

Balpreet Kaur, Nissim Kanekar, J. Xavier Prochaska

摘要:

利用巨型米波射电望远镜HI 21 cm对$z \approx 0.03399$的快速射电暴(FRB)FRB 20180916 B的宿主星系中的中性氢原子(HI)进行了成像研究。我们发现,FRB的主机有一个HI质量的$\rm M_{HI} = (2.74 \pm 0.33) \times 10^9 \ M_\odot$和一个高HI-恒星质量比,$\approx 1.3$。因此,FRB宿主是一个富含气体但接近静止的星系,很可能在最近的过去获得了相当大的HI质量。HI分布受到干扰,在东北方向的尾部探测到了HI 21 cm的延伸发射,向南的反尾,在星系中心和FRB位置之间的HI孔,以及在FRB位置附近测量到的高HI柱密度。FRB宿主是一个群的一部分,在HI 21 cm发射中检测到4个伴体,其中最近的一个离FRB位置仅22 kpc。丰富的气体和干扰HI分布表明,FRB主机最近经历了一个小的合并,这增加了它的HI质量,干扰了星系盘中的HI,并压缩了FRB位置附近的HI,以增加其表面密度。我们认为,这种合并导致了星系外围恒星形成的爆发,从而产生了FRB的祖先。小合并的证据与FRB的祖先是一颗大质量恒星的情况是一致的,因为合并事件而形成。

英文摘要:

We report a Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope HI 21cm mapping study of the neutral atomic hydrogen (HI) in the host galaxy of the fast radio burst (FRB) FRB20180916B at $z \approx 0.03399$. We find that the FRB host has an HI mass of $\rm M_{HI} = (2.74 \pm 0.33) \times 10^9 \ M_\odot$ and a high HI-to-stellar mass ratio, $\approx 1.3$. The FRB host is thus a gas-rich but near-quiescent galaxy, that is likely to have acquired a significant mass of HI in the recent past. The HI distribution is disturbed, with extended HI 21cm emission detected in a north-eastern tail, a counter-tail towards the south, an HI hole between the galaxy centre and the FRB location, and a high HI column density measured close to the FRB position. The FRB host is part of a group with four companions detected in their HI 21cm emission, the nearest of which is only 22~kpc from the FRB location. The gas-richness and disturbed HI distribution indicate that the FRB host has recently undergone a minor merger, which increased its HI mass, disturbed the HI in the galaxy disk, and compressed the HI near the FRB location to increase its surface density. We propose that this merger caused the burst of star-formation in the outskirts of the galaxy that gave rise to the FRB progenitor. The evidence for a minor merger is consistent with scenarios in which the FRB progenitor is a massive star, formed due to the merger event.

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