دورية أكاديمية
A Radio Relic And A Search For The Central Black Hole In The Abell 2261 Brightest Cluster Galaxy
| العنوان: | A Radio Relic And A Search For The Central Black Hole In The Abell 2261 Brightest Cluster Galaxy |
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| المؤلفون: | Burke-Spolaor, Sarah, Gültekin, Kayhan, Postman, Marc, Lauer, Tod R., Taylor, Joanna M., Lazio, T. Joseph W., Moustakas, Leonidas A. |
| المصدر: | Faculty & Staff Scholarship |
| بيانات النشر: | The Research Repository @ WVU |
| سنة النشر: | 2017 |
| المجموعة: | The Research Repository @ WVU (West Virginia University) |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies |
| الوصف: | We present VLA images and HST/STIS spectra of sources within the center of the brightest cluster galaxy (BCG) in Abell 2261. These observations were obtained to test the hypothesis that its extremely large, flat core reflects the ejection of its supermassive black hole. Spectra of three of the four most luminous "knots" embedded in the core were taken to test whether one may represent stars bound to a displaced massive black hole. The three knots have radial velocity offsets dV < ~150 km/s from the BCG. Knots 2 and 3 show kinematics, colors, and stellar masses consistent with infalling low-mass galaxies or larger stripped cluster members. Large errors in the stellar velocity dispersion of Knot 1, however, mean that we cannot rule out the hypothesis that it hosts a high-mass black hole. A2261-BCG has a compact, relic radio-source offset by 6.5 kpc (projected) from the optical core's center, but no active radio core that would pinpoint the galaxy's central black hole to a tight 10 GHz flux limit 48 Myr ago, with an equipartition condition magnetic field of 15 uG. These observations are still consistent with the hypothesis that the nuclear black hole has been ejected from its core, but the critical task of locating the supermassive black hole or demonstrating that A2261-BCG lacks one remains to be done. |
| نوع الوثيقة: | text |
| وصف الملف: | application/pdf |
| اللغة: | unknown |
| العلاقة: | https://researchrepository.wvu.edu/faculty_publications/448Test; https://researchrepository.wvu.edu/context/faculty_publications/article/1447/viewcontent/1709.07489Test |
| الإتاحة: | https://researchrepository.wvu.edu/faculty_publications/448Test https://researchrepository.wvu.edu/context/faculty_publications/article/1447/viewcontent/1709.07489Test |
| رقم الانضمام: | edsbas.B8EE30CE |
| قاعدة البيانات: | BASE |
| الوصف غير متاح. |