論文

査読有り
2020年12月4日

NuSTAR Non-detection of a Faint Active Galactic Nucleus in an Ultraluminous Infrared Galaxy with Kpc-scale Fast Wind

Astrophysical Journal Letters
  • Xiaoyang Chen
  • ,
  • Kohei Ichikawa
  • ,
  • Hirofumi Noda
  • ,
  • Taiki Kawamuro
  • ,
  • Toshihiro Kawaguchi
  • ,
  • Yoshiki Toba
  • ,
  • Masayuki Akiyama

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記述言語
英語
掲載種別
研究論文(学術雑誌)
DOI
10.3847/2041-8213/abca30
出版者・発行元
IOP PUBLISHING LTD

© 2020. The American Astronomical Society. All rights reserved.. Large-scale outflows are generally considered to be possible evidence that active galactic nuclei (AGNs) can severely affect their host galaxies. Recently, an ultraluminous infrared galaxy (ULIRG) at z = 0.49, AKARI J0916248+073034, was found to have a galaxy-scale [O iii] λ 5007 outflow with one of the highest energy-ejection rates at z < 1.6. However, the central AGN activity estimated from its torus mid-infrared (MIR) radiation is weak relative to the luminous [O iii] emission. In this work we report the first NuSTAR hard X-ray follow-up of this ULIRG to constrain its current AGN luminosity. The intrinsic 2-10 keV luminosity shows a 90% upper limit of 3.0 × 1043 erg s-1 assuming Compton-thick obscuration (N H = 1.5 × 1024 cm-2), which is only 3.6% of the luminosity expected from the extinction-corrected [O iii] luminosity. Using the NuSTAR observation, we successfully identify that this ULIRG has a very extreme case of X-ray deficit among local ULIRGs. A possible scenario to explain the drastic decline in both the corona (X-ray) and torus (MIR) is that the primary radiation from the AGN accretion disk is currently in a fading status, as a consequence of a powerful nuclear wind suggested by powerful ionized outflow in a galaxy scale.

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ID情報
  • DOI : 10.3847/2041-8213/abca30
  • ISSN : 2041-8205
  • eISSN : 2041-8213
  • SCOPUS ID : 85098070029
  • Web of Science ID : WOS:000595694100001

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