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类星体宿主星系中从星系级气体内流到外流的转变

The Transition from Galaxy-wide Gas Inflow to Outflow in Quasar Host Galaxies

Zhicheng He, Zhifu Chen, Guilin Liu, Tinggui Wang, Luis C. Ho, Junxian Wang, Weihao Bian, Zheng Cai, Guobin Mou, Qiusheng Gu, Zhiwen Wang

AI总结:

该研究通过斯隆数字巡天的Mg II窄吸收线类星体样本,发现星系尺度气体随[O III]线增强从内流转为外流(6.7σ置信度),为AGN外流多阶段传播调控星系演化的假说提供了观测证据。

摘要:

由活动星系核(AGNs)驱动的星系级外流是星系演化模型中常被援引的反馈机制。迄今为止,星系尺度星际气体、AGN外流的传播与演化过程中AGN基本参数之间的相互作用仍不明确。研究发现,强核外流更易存在于AGN演化早期,这类阶段通常与高吸积率、弱窄发射线相关。在斯隆数字巡天(Sloan Digital Sky Survey)的一个具有Mg II窄吸收线(NALs)的类星体样本中,我们发现了一个前所未有的现象:随着窄[O III]线强度增加,星系尺度气体从以内流为主转变为以外流为主,置信度达6.7σ。随着AGN演化,核外流减弱而星系级外流增强,这一事实表明早期外流会与星系尺度的星际介质相互作用,触发气体逐渐转变为星系级外流,为假设中可全局调控星系演化的AGN外流多阶段传播模型提供了观测关联。

英文摘要:

Galactic-wide outflows driven by active galactic nuclei (AGNs) is a routinely invoked feedback mechanism in galaxy evolution models. Hitherto, the interplay among the interstellar gas on galactic scales, the propagation of AGN outflows and the fundamental AGN parameters during evolution remains elusive. Powerful nuclear outflows are found to favorably exist at early AGN stages usually associated with high accretion rates and weak narrow emission lines. In a sample of quasars emitting Mg II narrow absorption lines (NALs) from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, we discover an unprecedented phenomenon where galaxy-scale inflow-dominated transforming into outflow-dominated gas accompanied by an increasing strength of the narrow [O III] line, at a confidence level of 6.7σ. The fact that nuclear outflows diminish while galaxy-wide outflows intensifies as AGNs evolve implies that early-stage outflows interact with interstellar medium on galactic scales and trigger the gradual transformation into galaxy-wide outflows, providing observational links to the hypothetical multi-stage propagation of AGN outflows that globally regulates galaxy evolution.

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