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NGC 4111极环中的气体流入:AGN的诞生

Gas inflows in the polar ring of NGC 4111: the birth of an AGN

Gabriel R. Hauschild-Roier, Thaisa Storchi-Bergmann, Richard M. McDermid, Jonelle L. Walsh, Joanne Tan, Jonathan Cohn, Davor Krajnović, Jenny Greene, Monica Val… 展开作者

Gabriel R. Hauschild-Roier, Thaisa Storchi-Bergmann, Richard M. McDermid, Jonelle L. Walsh, Joanne Tan, Jonathan Cohn, Davor Krajnović, Jenny Greene, Monica Valluri, Kayhan Gültekin, Sabine Thater, Glenn van de Ven, Karl Gebhardt, Nora Lützgendorf, Benjamin D. Boizelle, Chung-Pei Ma, Aaron J. Barth

摘要:

我们使用哈勃空间望远镜(HST)的图像,SAURON积分场光谱(IFS)和自适应光学辅助双子座NIFS近红外K波段IFS映射恒星和气体的分布,激发和运动学的内部几个千秒差距的附近边缘S 0星系NGC 4111。HST的图像描绘了它的直径为$\approx$ 450 pc的尘埃极环,估计气体质量为$\ge10^7$ M $_\odot$。NIFS数据立方体以$\approx$ 7 pc的空间分辨率绘制了110 pc的内部半径,揭示了嵌入极性环中的热($2267\pm166$ K)分子H $_2$ 1-0 S(1)气体中的$\approx$ 220 pc直径的极性环。恒星速度场显示盘占主导地位的运动学沿星系平面无论是在SAURON大尺度和NIFS核尺度的数据。大尺度的[O III] $\lambda5007$速度场显示了两个盘运动学的叠加:一个类似于恒星的运动学,另一个沿着极环,显示出非圆形运动,似乎与核H $_2$环的速度场有关,其运动学表明加速流入核。估计的质量流入率不仅足以养活一个活动星系核(AGN),而且在不久的将来触发环核恒星的形成。我们提出了一种可能起源于矮星系捕获的极环气体向内运动并触发活动星系核的设想,这得到了局部X射线发射的支持,这似乎是H $_2$ 1-0 S(1)激发的来源。我们既没有看到近紫外辐射,也没有看到Br $γ$辐射,这一事实表明,新生的活动星系核仍然深埋在极环的光学厚尘埃之下。

英文摘要:

We have used Hubble Space Telescope (HST) images, SAURON Integral Field Spectroscopy (IFS) and adaptative optics assisted Gemini NIFS near-infrared K-band IFS to map the stellar and gas distribution, excitation and kinematics of the inner few kpc of the nearby edge-on S0 galaxy NGC 4111. The HST images map its $\approx$ 450 pc diameter dusty polar ring, with an estimated gas mass $\ge10^7$ M$_\odot$. The NIFS datacube maps the inner 110 pc radius at $\approx$ 7 pc spatial resolution revealing a $\approx$ 220 pc diameter polar ring in hot ($2267\pm166$ K) molecular H$_2$ 1-0 S(1) gas embedded in the polar ring. The stellar velocity field shows disk-dominated kinematics along the galaxy plane both in the SAURON large-scale and in the NIFS nuclear-scale data. The large-scale [O III] $\lambda5007$ Åvelocity field shows a superposition of two disk kinematics: one similar to that of the stars and another along the polar ring, showing non-circular motions that seem to connect with the velocity field of the nuclear H$_2$ ring, whose kinematics indicate accelerated inflow to the nucleus. The estimated mass inflow rate is enough not only to feed an Active Galactic Nucleus (AGN) but also to trigger circumnuclear star formation in the near future. We propose a scenario in which gas from the polar ring, which probably originated from the capture of a dwarf galaxy, is moving inwards and triggering an AGN, as supported by the local X-ray emission, which seems to be the source of the H$_2$ 1-0 S(1) excitation. The fact that we see neither near-UV nor Br$γ$ emission suggests that the nascent AGN is still deeply buried under the optically thick dust of the polar ring.

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