Utilizza questo identificativo per citare o creare un link a questo documento:
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12386/26734
Titolo: | ALMA imaging of C2H emission in the disk of NGC 1068 | Autori: | García-Burillo, S. Viti, S. Combes, F. Fuente, A. Usero, A. HUNT, Leslie Kipp Martín, S. Krips, M. Aalto, S. Aladro, R. Ramos Almeida, C. Alonso-Herrero, A. CASASOLA, VIVIANA Henkel, C. Querejeta, M. Neri, R. Costagliola, F. Tacconi, L. J. van der Werf, P. P. |
Data pubblicazione: | 2017 | Rivista: | ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS | Numero: | 608 | Da pagina:: | A56 | Abstract: | Aims: We study the feedback of star formation and nuclear activity on the chemistry of molecular gas in NGC 1068, a nearby (D = 14 Mpc) Seyfert 2 barred galaxy, by analyzing whether the abundances of key molecular species such as ethynyl (C<SUB>2</SUB>H), which is a classical tracer of photon dominated regions (PDR), change in the different environments of the disk of the galaxy. <BR /> Methods: We used the Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA) to map the emission of the hyperfine multiplet of C<SUB>2</SUB>H(N = 1-0) and its underlying continuum emission in the central r ≃ 35″ (2.5 kpc) region of the disk of NGC 1068 with a spatial resolution 1.̋0 × 0.̋7 (≃ 50-70 pc). We used maps of the dust continuum emission obtained at 349 GHz by ALMA to derive the H<SUB>2</SUB> gas column densities and combined these with the C<SUB>2</SUB>H map at matched spatial resolution to estimate the fractional abundance of this species. We developed a set of time-dependent chemical models, which include shocks, gas-phase PDRs, and gas-grain chemical models to determine the origin of the C<SUB>2</SUB>H gas. <BR /> Results: A sizeable fraction of the total C<SUB>2</SUB>H line emission is detected from the r ≃ 1.3 kpc starburst (SB) ring, which is a region that concentrates the bulk of the recent massive star formation in the disk traced by the Paα emission complexes imaged by the Hubble Space Telescope (HST). However, the brightest C<SUB>2</SUB>H emission originates from a r ≃ 200 pc off-centered circumnuclear disk (CND), where evidence of a molecular outflow has been previously found in other molecular tracers imaged by ALMA. We also detect significant emission that connects the CND with the outer disk in a region that probes the interface between the molecular disk and ionized gas outflow out to r ≃ 400 pc. We derived the fractional abundances of C<SUB>2</SUB>H (X(C<SUB>2</SUB>H)) assuming local thermodynamic equilibrium (LTE) conditions and a set of excitation temperatures (T<SUB>ex</SUB>) constrained by the previous multiline CO studies of the galaxy. Our estimates range from X(C<SUB>2</SUB>H) ≃ a few 10<SUP>-8</SUP> in the SB ring up to X(C<SUB>2</SUB>H) ≃ a few 10<SUP>-7</SUP> in the outflow region. The PDR models that incorporate gas-grain chemistry are able to account for X(C<SUB>2</SUB>H) in the SB ring for moderately dense (n(H<SUB>2</SUB>) ≥ 10<SUP>4</SUP> cm<SUP>-3</SUP>) and moderately UV-irradiated gas (UV-field ≤ 10 × Draine field, where 1 Draine field ≡ 2.74 × 10<SUP>-3</SUP> erg s<SUP>-1</SUP> cm<SUP>-2</SUP>) in a steady-state regime, which depending on the initial and physical conditions of the gas may be achieved by 10<SUP>5</SUP> yr or as late as 10<SUP>7</SUP> yr. However, the high fractional abundances estimated for C<SUB>2</SUB>H in the outflow region can only be reached at very early times (T ≤ 10<SUP>2-3</SUP> yr) in models of UV or X-ray irradiated dense gas (n(H<SUB>2</SUB>) ≥ 10<SUP>4-5</SUP> cm<SUP>-3</SUP>). <BR /> Conclusions: We find that the transient conditions required to fit the high values of X(C<SUB>2</SUB>H) in the outflow are likely due to UV or X-ray irradiated non-dissociative shocks associated with the highly turbulent interface between the outflow and molecular gas in NGC 1068. Although the inferred local timescales are short, the erosion of molecular clouds by the active galactic nucleus (AGN) wind and/or the jet likely resupplies the interface working surface continuously, making a nearly steady state persist in the disk of the galaxy. | URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12386/26734 | URL: | https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/abs/2017/12/aa31862-17/aa31862-17.html | ISSN: | 0004-6361 | DOI: | 10.1051/0004-6361/201731862 | Bibcode ADS: | 2017A&A...608A..56G | Fulltext: | open |
È visualizzato nelle collezioni: | 1.01 Articoli in rivista |
File in questo documento:
File | Descrizione | Dimensioni | Formato | |
---|---|---|---|---|
2017A+A.608A56Garcia-Burillo.pdf | PDF editoriale | 1.18 MB | Adobe PDF | Visualizza/apri |
Page view(s)
63
controllato il 1-set-2024
Download(s)
14
controllato il 1-set-2024
Google ScholarTM
Check
Altmetric
Altmetric
Tutti i documenti in DSpace sono pubblicati ad Accesso Aperto, salvo diversa indicazione per alcuni documenti specifici.