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类星体快速外流在几十秒差距尺度上加速的证据

Evidence for quasar fast outflows being accelerated at the scale of tens of parsecs

Zhicheng He, Guilin Liu, Tinggui Wang, Guobin Mou, Richard Green, Weihao Bian, Huiyuan Wang, Luis C. Ho, Mouyuan Sun, Lu Shen, Nahum Arav, Chen Chen, Qingwen Wu… 展开作者

Zhicheng He, Guilin Liu, Tinggui Wang, Guobin Mou, Richard Green, Weihao Bian, Huiyuan Wang, Luis C. Ho, Mouyuan Sun, Lu Shen, Nahum Arav, Chen Chen, Qingwen Wu, Hengxiao Guo, Zesen Lin, Junyao Li, Weimin Yi

摘要:

类星体外流可能在调节宿主星系方面起着至关重要的作用,尽管类星体外流的空间尺度仍然是一个主要的谜,其加速机制知之甚少。外流的运动学信息是理解其起源和加速机制的关键。在这里,我们报告的样本和一个单独的类星体的不同流出组件的银河中心距离。我们发现流出距离随着速度的增加而增加,典型值从几个秒差距到一百多个秒差距,这为加速发生在10秒差距量级提供了直接证据。这些外流携带了类星体总能量的约1%,而它们的运动学与尘埃驱动模型一致,其发射半径与尘埃环面的尺度相当,这表明尘埃和类星体辐射之间的耦合可能会产生对星系演化至关重要的强大反馈。

英文摘要:

Quasar outflows may play a crucial role in regulating the host galaxy, although the spatial scale of quasar outflows remain a major enigma, with their acceleration mechanism poorly understood. The kinematic information of outflow is the key to understanding its origin and acceleration mechanism. Here, we report the galactocentric distances of different outflow components for both a sample and an individual quasar. We find that the outflow distance increases with velocity, with a typical value from several parsecs to more than one hundred parsecs, providing direct evidence for an acceleration happening at a scale of the order of 10 parsecs. These outflows carry ~1% of the total quasar energy, while their kinematics are consistent with a dust driven model with a launching radius comparable to the scale of a dusty torus, indicating that the coupling between dust and quasar radiation may produce powerful feedback that is crucial to galaxy evolution.

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