Evidence for quasar fast outflows being accelerated at the scale of tens of parsecs

分类： 天文学 >> 天文学 提交时间： 2023-02-19

Zhicheng He Guilin Liu Tinggui Wang Guobin Mou Richard Green Weihao Bian Huiyuan Wang Luis C. Ho Mouyuan Sun Lu Shen Nahum Arav Chen Chen Qingwen Wu Hengxiao Guo Zesen Lin Junyao Li Weimin Yi

摘要： Quasar outflows may play a crucial role in regulating the host galaxy, although the spatial scale of quasar outflows remain a major enigma, with their acceleration mechanism poorly understood. The kinematic information of outflow is the key to understanding its origin and acceleration mechanism. Here, we report the galactocentric distances of different outflow components for both a sample and an individual quasar. We find that the outflow distance increases with velocity, with a typical value from several parsecs to more than one hundred parsecs, providing direct evidence for an acceleration happening at a scale of the order of 10 parsecs. These outflows carry ~1% of the total quasar energy, while their kinematics are consistent with a dust driven model with a launching radius comparable to the scale of a dusty torus, indicating that the coupling between dust and quasar radiation may produce powerful feedback that is crucial to galaxy evolution.

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