挑战典型间歇射电星系 J0111+3906:来自 GTC/OSIRIS 光学与 VLA 及 LOFAR 射电观测的新见解
Challenging the archetypal intermittent radio galaxy J0111+3906. New insights from optical GTC/OSIRIS and radio VLA and LOFAR observations
- INAF - Istituto di Radioastronomia(意大利国家天体物理研究所射电天文研究所)
- Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias(加那利天体物理研究所)
- Universidad de La Laguna(拉古纳大学)
- Hamburger Sternwarte, Universität Hamburg(汉堡天文台,汉堡大学)
- European Southern Observatory(欧洲南方天文台)
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AI总结:
通过光学光谱与射电观测,证明 J0111+3906 东侧射电源为无关的后星暴星系,并揭示其辐射年龄上限及 CSO 可能的化石等离子体与约 10^4 年工作周期。
AI中文摘要:
我们展示了针对射电发射后方20角秒东侧光学天体(即重启致密对称天体(CSO)J0111+3906 的典型范例)的新光学 Gran Telescopio CANARIAS OSIRIS+ 光谱以及 360 MHz 射电甚大阵列(VLA)观测结果。该光学对应体是一个红移 $z$ = 1.042 的星暴后星系,排除了该天体与红移 $z$ = 0.668 的 CSO 射电星系 J0111+3906 之间存在任何物理联系。因此,该射电发射并非 CSO J0111+3906 约 10$^7$ 年前过去活动的遗迹。当使用 VLA 和国际低频阵列望远镜的高角分辨率观测时,东侧射电源被分解为一个谱指数为 0.7 的致密成分,中心位于光学星系,周围环绕着谱指数略陡的弥散发射。东侧射电源的辐射年龄上限为几百万年。如果射电发射的触发与在东侧射电源中观测到的近期恒星形成爆发存在因果联系,那么这两种现象之间必然存在很长的时间间隔。对 CSO 射电星系 J0111+3906 的多频分析指出在 150 MHz 处存在过量通量密度,这可能表明宿主星系内存在被约束的化石等离子体。在这种情景下,CSO J0111+3906 的过去活动在其触发后不久便关闭,表明其工作周期约为 10$^4$ 年。
英文摘要:
We present results on new optical Gran Telescopio CANARIAS OSIRIS+ spectroscopy and radio Very Large Array (VLA) observations at 360 MHz of the optical object behind the radio emission 20 arcseconds east of the archetypal restarted compact symmetric object (CSO) J0111+3906. The optical counterpart is a post-starburst galaxy at redshift $z$ = 1.042, ruling out any physical relation between this object and the CSO radio galaxy J0111+3906 at redshift $z$ = 0.668. The radio emission is therefore not the remnant of a past activity of the CSO J0111+3906 that took place around 10$^7$ years ago. When observed with the high angular resolution of VLA and the International LOw Frequency ARray telescope the East radio source is resolved in a compact component with spectral index 0.7, centred on the optical galaxy, surrounded by diffuse emission with a slightly steeper spectrum. The upper limit to the radiative age of the East radio source is a few million years. If the trigger of the radio emission and the recent burst of star formation observed in the East radio source are causally connected, there must be a long time gap between the two phenomena. The multi-frequency analysis of the CSO radio galaxy J0111+3906 pointed out excess flux density at 150 MHz, which may indicate the presence of fossil plasma confined within the host galaxy. In this scenario, the past activity of the CSO J0111+3906 switched off not long after its trigger, suggesting a duty cycle of about 10$^4$ yr.