We analyse Near-Infrared Integral Field Spectrograph (NIFS) observations of the type-2 quasar (QSO2) SDSS J094521.33+173753.2 to investigate its warm molecular and ionized gas kinematics. This QSO2 has a bolometric luminosity of 1045.7 erg s-1 and a redshift of z=0.128. The K-band spectra provided by NIFS cover a range of 1.99-2.40 μm where low ionization (Paα and BRΔ), high ionization ([S XI]λ1.920 μm and [Si VI]λ1.963 μm), and warm molecular lines (from H21-0S(5) to 1-0S(1)) are detected, allowing us to study the multi-phase gas kinematics. Our analysis reveals gas in ordinary rotation in all the emission lines detected and also outflowing gas in the case of the low and high ionization emission lines. In the case of the nuclear spectrum, which corresponds to a circular aperture of 0.33; (686 pc) in diameter, the warm molecular lines can be characterized using a single Gaussian component of full width at half maximum (FWHM) = 350-400 km s-1, while Paα, BRΔ, and [Si VI] are best fitted with two blue-shifted Gaussian components of FWHM 800 and 1700 km s-1, in addition to a narrow component of ã300 km s-1. We interpret the blue-shifted broad components as outflowing gas, which reaches the highest velocities, of up to -840 km s-1, in the south-east direction (PA ã 125), extending up to a distance of ã3.4 kpc from the nucleus. The ionized outflow has a maximum mass outflow rate of á1; ? out,max = 42-51 Myr-1, and its kinetic power represents 0.1% of the quasar bolometric luminosity. Very Large Array (VLA) data of J0945 show extended radio emission (PA ã 100) that is aligned with the clumpy emission traced by the narrow component of the ionized lines up to scales of several kiloparsecs, and with the innermost part of the outflow (central ã0.43; = 915 pc). Beyond that radius, at the edge of the radio jet, the high velocity gas shows a different PA of ã125. This might be an indication that the line-emitting gas is being compressed and accelerated by the shocks generated by the radio jet.
Warm molecular and ionized gas kinematics in the type-2 quasar J0945+1737 / Speranza G.; Ramos Almeida C.; Acosta-Pulido J.A.; Riffel R.A.; Tadhunter C.; Pierce J.C.S.; Rodriguez-Ardila A.; Coloma Puga M.; Brusa M.; Musiimenta B.; Alexander D.M.; Lapi A.; Shankar F.; Villforth C.. - In: ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS. - ISSN 0004-6361. - STAMPA. - 665:(2022), pp. A55.1-A55.23. [10.1051/0004-6361/202243585]
Warm molecular and ionized gas kinematics in the type-2 quasar J0945+1737
Brusa M.Membro del Collaboration Group
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2022
Abstract
We analyse Near-Infrared Integral Field Spectrograph (NIFS) observations of the type-2 quasar (QSO2) SDSS J094521.33+173753.2 to investigate its warm molecular and ionized gas kinematics. This QSO2 has a bolometric luminosity of 1045.7 erg s-1 and a redshift of z=0.128. The K-band spectra provided by NIFS cover a range of 1.99-2.40 μm where low ionization (Paα and BRΔ), high ionization ([S XI]λ1.920 μm and [Si VI]λ1.963 μm), and warm molecular lines (from H21-0S(5) to 1-0S(1)) are detected, allowing us to study the multi-phase gas kinematics. Our analysis reveals gas in ordinary rotation in all the emission lines detected and also outflowing gas in the case of the low and high ionization emission lines. In the case of the nuclear spectrum, which corresponds to a circular aperture of 0.33; (686 pc) in diameter, the warm molecular lines can be characterized using a single Gaussian component of full width at half maximum (FWHM) = 350-400 km s-1, while Paα, BRΔ, and [Si VI] are best fitted with two blue-shifted Gaussian components of FWHM 800 and 1700 km s-1, in addition to a narrow component of ã300 km s-1. We interpret the blue-shifted broad components as outflowing gas, which reaches the highest velocities, of up to -840 km s-1, in the south-east direction (PA ã 125), extending up to a distance of ã3.4 kpc from the nucleus. The ionized outflow has a maximum mass outflow rate of á1; ? out,max = 42-51 Myr-1, and its kinetic power represents 0.1% of the quasar bolometric luminosity. Very Large Array (VLA) data of J0945 show extended radio emission (PA ã 100) that is aligned with the clumpy emission traced by the narrow component of the ionized lines up to scales of several kiloparsecs, and with the innermost part of the outflow (central ã0.43; = 915 pc). Beyond that radius, at the edge of the radio jet, the high velocity gas shows a different PA of ã125. This might be an indication that the line-emitting gas is being compressed and accelerated by the shocks generated by the radio jet.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
