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射电源中AGN活动对恒星形成气体的消耗

The depletion of star-forming gas by AGN activity in radio sources

S J Curran

AI总结:

本研究通过分析z>0.1的HI吸收数据,发现AGN光致电离主导射电源宿主星系中HI吸收探测率,并证实高柱密度系统自旋温度接近银河系,而高电离率下气体高度电离。

摘要:

寒冷的中性星际气体是恒星形成的储库,可通过中性氢(HI)对21厘米连续谱辐射的吸收来追踪。尽管在遥远射电源的宿主星系中已有一百例探测到该吸收,但直到最近才发现柱密度接近Lyman-alpha吸收系统中观测到的最大值的情况。在此,我们探讨这些发现对“HI吸收的探测率由活动星系核(AGN)的光致电离主导”这一假设的影响。我们发现,加入当前所有z > 0.1的HI吸收搜索后,HI吸收强度与电离光子率之间存在强相关性,且探测到HI的最大值始终接近于大型旋涡星系中所有中性气体被完全电离的理论值(Q = 2.9e56电离光子/秒)。我们还排除了其他效应(射电连续谱激发和气体性质变化)作为探测率随红移下降的主要原因。此外,基于最大理论柱密度,我们发现五个高柱密度系统的自旋温度接近银河系水平(T < 300 K),而根据我们的气态星系盘模型,在Q= 2.9e56/秒条件下探测到的HI对应T~10 000 K,与气体高度电离的状态一致。

英文摘要:

Cold, neutral interstellar gas, the reservoir for star formation, is traced through the absorption of the 21-centimetre continuum radiation by neutral hydrogen (HI). Although detected in one hundred cases in the host galaxies of distant radio sources, only recently have column densities approaching the maximum value observed in Lyman-alpha absorption systems been found. Here we explore the implications these have for the hypothesis that the detection rate of HI absorption is dominated by photo-ionisation from the active galactic nucleus (AGN). We find, with the addition all of the current searches for HI absorption at z > 0.1, a strong correlation between the HI absorption strength and the ionising photon rate, with the maximum value at which HI is detected remaining close to the theoretical value in which all of the neutral gas would be ionised in a large spiral galaxy (Q = 2.9e56 ionising photons/s). We also rule out other effects (excitation by the radio continuum and changing gas properties) as the dominant cause for the decrease in the detection rate with redshift. Furthermore, from the maximum theoretical column density we find that the five high column density systems have spin temperatures close to those of the Milky Way (T < 300 K), whereas, from our model of a gaseous galactic disk, the HI detection at Q= 2.9e56 per s yields T~10 000 K, consistent with the gas being highly ionised.

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