Bibcode
Rodríguez-Ardila, A.; Prieto, M. A.; Mazzalay, X.; Fernández-Ontiveros, J. A.; Luque, R.; Müller-Sánchez, F.
Referencia bibliográfica
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 470, Issue 3, p.2845-2860
Fecha de publicación:
9
2017
Número de citas
35
Número de citas referidas
31
Descripción
Low-luminosity active galactic nuclei, i.e. L_{bol}/Ledd
∼ 10-6-10-3, constitute the bulk population of
active galactic nuclei (AGNs). Powerful jets, common in these objects,
are a crucial source of feedback energy-driving mass outflows into the
host galaxy and the intergalactic medium. This paper reports the first
direct measurement of powerful mass outflows traced by the forbidden
high-ionization gas in the low-luminosity AGN NGC 1386 at scales of a
few parsecs from the central engine. The high-angular resolution of the
data allows us to directly measure the location, morphology and
kinematic of the outflow. This has the form of two symmetrical expanding
hot gas shells moving in opposite directions along the line of sight.
The co-spatiality of the gas shells with radio emission seen at the same
parsec scales and with X-rays indicates that this is a shock-driven
outflow presumably induced by an incipient core jet. With a minimum
number of assumptions, we derive a mass outflow rate of 11
M⊙ yr-1, comparable to those of powerful AGN.
The result has strong implications in the global accounting of feedback
mass and energy driven by a low-luminosity AGN into the medium and the
corresponding galaxy evolution.
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