銀河中心の二重ピーク放射線起源を解明(Double-Peaked Emission Lines in Galactic Centers)

2025-09-25 中国科学院(CAS)

上海天文台(中国科学院)の研究チームは、銀河中心に見られる二重ピークの狭い輝線の起源を解明しました。従来は連星ブラックホールの兆候と考えられてきましたが、研究は高速回転するガス円盤、活動銀河核(AGN)のガス流出、さらには棒渦巻銀河の核リングなど、複数のメカニズムによっても生成されることを示しました。特に核リングは、PSF効果で混ざり合う前後の高速ガスにより対称的な二重ピークを生じさせることが判明。これにより「二重ピーク=連星ブラックホール」という単純な解釈を覆し、銀河中心構造の理解を深めました。今後はX線など多波長観測や高解像度データで連星ブラックホール候補を慎重に識別する必要があります。

銀河中心の二重ピーク放射線起源を解明(Double-Peaked Emission Lines in Galactic Centers)Simulating the full band light emitted by a binary supermassive black hole system in a transparent medium, observed from directly above the galactic disk. (Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center/Scott Noble; simulation data)

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SDSS-IV MaNGA: 棒銀河における二重ピーク狭輝線スパクセルの物理的起源 SDSS-IV MaNGA: Physical Origins of Double-peaked Narrow Emission-line Spaxels in Barred Galaxies

Jiajie Qiu, Shiyin Shen, Ruixiang Chang, Qianwen Zhao, and Qi Zeng
The Astrophysical Journal  Published: 2025 September 11
DOI:10.3847/1538-4357/adf4d1

Abstract

The physical origins of double-peaked narrow emission-line spaxels (DPSs) in barred galaxies are explored through the analysis of a sample of 72 barred double-peaked emission-line galaxies (DPGs) extracted from the MaNGA data set. In this study, we examine two potential scenarios: the gas inflow along the bar and the formation of a bar-induced gaseous nuclear ring. By applying a classical galactic dynamics model, we calculate the radii and rotational velocities of the nuclear rings for all barred DPGs and compare them with the observed properties of their DPSs. Our analysis reveals a significant correlation between the predicted radii of the nuclear rings and the maximum centric distances of the DPSs, as well as a marginal correlation between the predicted rotational velocities of the nuclear rings and the observed maximum velocity differences of the DPSs. These findings provide strong evidence to support the hypothesis that the DPSs of a barred DPG in MaNGA primarily originate from the convolution of the point-spread function effect with its bar-induced fast-rotating gaseous nuclear ring.

1701物理及び化学
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