Molecular outflows in local galaxies: Method comparison and a role of intermittent AGN driving
Artikel i vetenskaplig tidskrift, 2020
We report new detections and limits from a NOEMA and ALMA CO(1-0) search for molecular outflows in 13 local galaxies with high far-infrared surface brightness, and combine these with local universe CO outflow results from the literature. The CO line ratios and spatial outflow structure of our targets provide some constraints on the conversion steps from observables to physical quantities such as molecular mass outflow rates. Where available, ratios between outflow emission in higher J CO transitions and in CO(1-0) are typically consistent with excitation R-i1 less than or similar to 1. However, for IRAS 13120 5453, R-31 = 2.10 +/- 0.29 indicates optically thin CO in the outflow. Like much of the outflow literature, we use ff CO(1 0) = 0.8, and we present arguments for using C = 1 in deriving molecular mass outflow rates. (M)over dot(out) = CM(out)v(out)/R-out. We compare the two main methods for molecular outflow detection: CO millimeter interferometry and Herschel OH-based spectroscopic outflow searches. For 26 sources studied with both methods, we find an 80% agreement in detecting vout & 150 km s 1 outflows, and non-matches can be plausibly ascribed to outflow geometry and signal-to-noise ratio. For a published sample of 12 bright ultraluminous infrared galaxies with detailed OH-based outflow modeling, CO outflows are detected in all but one. Outflow masses, velocities, and sizes for these 11 sources agree well between the two methods, and modest remaining di fferences may relate to the di fferent but overlapping regions sampled by CO emission and OH absorption. Outflow properties correlate better with active galactic nucleus (AGN) luminosity and with bolometric luminosity than with far-infrared surface brightness. The most massive outflows are found for systems with current AGN activity, but significant outflows in nonAGN systems must relate to star formation or to AGN activity in the recent past. We report scaling relations for the increase of outflow mass, rate, momentum rate, and kinetic power with bolometric luminosity. Short flow times of similar to 10(6) yr and some sources with resolved multiple outflow episodes support a role of intermittent driving, likely by AGNs.
galaxies: active
galaxies: kinematics and dynamics
galaxies: ISM
Författare
D. Lutz
Max-Planck-Gesellschaft
E. Sturm
Max-Planck-Gesellschaft
A. Janssen
Max-Planck-Gesellschaft
Nederlandse Onderzoekschool voor Astronomie (NOVA)
S. Veilleux
Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI)
University of Cambridge
University of Maryland
Susanne Aalto
Chalmers, Rymd-, geo- och miljövetenskap, Astronomi och plasmafysik
C. Cicone
Istituto nazionale di astrofisica (INAF)
Universitetet i Oslo
A. Contursi
Institut de Radioastronomie Millimétrique (IRAM)
Max-Planck-Gesellschaft
R. I. Davies
Max-Planck-Gesellschaft
C. Feruglio
Istituto nazionale di astrofisica (INAF)
J. Fischer
George Mason University
A. Fluetsch
University of Cambridge
S. Garcia-Burillo
Observatorio Astronómico Nacional (OAN)
R. Genzel
Max-Planck-Gesellschaft
E. Gonzalez-Alfonso
Universidad de Alcala
J. Gracia-Carpio
Max-Planck-Gesellschaft
R. Herrera-Camus
Universidad de Concepción
Max-Planck-Gesellschaft
R. Maiolino
University of Cambridge
A. Schruba
Max-Planck-Gesellschaft
T. Shimizu
Max-Planck-Gesellschaft
A. Sternberg
Tel Aviv University
L. J. Tacconi
Max-Planck-Gesellschaft
A. Weiss
Max-Planck-Gesellschaft
Astronomy and Astrophysics
0004-6361 (ISSN) 1432-0746 (eISSN)
Vol. 633 A134Ämneskategorier
Astronomi, astrofysik och kosmologi
DOI
10.1051/0004-6361/201936803