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MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY
卷 476, 期 3, 页码 2876-2889出版社
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/sty390
关键词
techniques: interferometric; techniques: radar astronomy; galaxies: active; galaxies: individual: NGC 5195; radio continuum: galaxies; X-rays: galaxies
资金
- NASA
- ERC-StG [307215]
- Curtin University Senior Research Fellowship
- Australian Government Research Training Program (RTP) Scholarship
- state government of Western Australia
- Strasbourg Observatory
- Science and Technology Facilities Council [ST/R000506/1, ST/M001326/1, ST/P000541/1, ST/P000649/1] Funding Source: researchfish
- STFC [ST/M001326/1, ST/R000506/1, ST/P000541/1, ST/P000649/1, ST/P000827/1, ST/R001170/1] Funding Source: UKRI
We studied the nearby, interacting galaxy NGC5195 (M 51b) in the radio, optical and X-ray bands. We mapped the extended, low-surface-brightness features of its radio-continuum emission; determined the energy content of its complex structure of shock-ionized gas; constrained the current activity level of its supermassive nuclear black hole. In particular, we combined data from the European Very Long Baseline Interferometry Network (similar to 1-pc scale), from our new e-MERLIN observations (similar to 10-pc scale), and from the Very Large Array (similar to 100-1000-pc scale), to obtain a global picture of energy injection in this galaxy. We put an upper limit to the luminosity of the (undetected) flat-spectrum radio core. We find steep-spectrum, extended emission within 10 pc of the nuclear position, consistent with optically thin synchrotron emission from nuclear star formation or from an outflow powered by an active galactic nucleus (AGN). A linear spur of radio emission juts out of the nuclear source towards the kpc-scale arcs (detected in radio, Ha and X-ray bands). From the size, shock velocity, and Balmer line luminosity of the kpc-scale bubble, we estimate that it was inflated by a long-term-average mechanical power similar to 3-6 x 10(41) erg s(-1) over the last 3-6 Myr. This is an order of magnitude more power than can be provided by the current level of star formation, and by the current accretion power of the supermassive black hole. We argue that a jet-inflated bubble scenario associated with previous episodes of AGN activity is the most likely explanation for the kpc-scale structures.
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