Morphological evidence for a past minor merger in the Seyfert galaxy NGC 1068
Morphological evidence for a past minor merger in the Seyfert galaxy NGC 1068
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塞弗特星系 NGC 1068 过去一次小合并的形态学证据
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10.1093/pasj/psx100
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2017
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Tanaka;I.;Yagi;M. and Taniguchi;Y.
Deep optical imaging with both Hyper Suprime-Cam and Suprime-Cam on the 8.2 m Subaru Telescope reveals a number of outer faint structures around the archetypical Seyfert galaxy NGC 1068 (M 77). We find three ultra diffuse objects (UDOs) around NGC 1068. Since these UDOs are located within the projected distance of 45 kpc from the center of NGC 1068, they appear to be associated with NGC 1068. Hereafter, we call them UDO-SW, UDO-NE, and UDO-SE where UDO = Ultra Diffuse Object, SW = southwest, NE = northwest, and SE = southeast; note that UDO-SE was already found in the SDSS Stripe 82 data. Among them, UDO-NE and UDO-SW appear to be a part of a loop or stream structure around the main body of NGC 1068, providing evidence for the physical connection to NGC 1068. We consider that UDO-SE may be a tidal dwarf galaxy. We also find another UDO-like object that is two magnitudes fainter and smaller by a factor of 3 to 5 than those of the three UDOs. This object may belong to a class of low surface brightness galaxy. Since this object is located along the line connecting UDO-NE and UDO-SW, it is suggested that this object is related to the past interaction event that formed the loop by UDO-NE and UDO-SW, thus implying the physical connection to NGC 1068. Another newly discovered feature is an asymmetric outer one-arm structure emanating from the western edge of the outermost disk of NGC 1068 together with a ripple-like structure at the opposite side. These structures are expected to arise in a late phase of a minor merger, according to published numerical simulations of minor mergers. All these lines of evidence show that NGC 1068 experienced a minor merger several billion years ago. We then discuss the minor-merger driven triggering of nuclear activity in the case of NGC 1068.
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DOI:
10.1088/0004-637x/755/2/87
发表时间:
2012
期刊:
The Astrophysical Journal
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作者:
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发表时间:
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