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A&A
Volume 629, September 2019
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Article Number | A30 | |
Number of page(s) | 15 | |
Section | Extragalactic astronomy | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201834416 | |
Published online | 30 August 2019 |
Complex molecular gas kinematics in the inner 5 kpc of 4C12.50 as seen by ALMA⋆
1
Department of Astrophysics, Astronomy & Mechanics, Faculty of Physics, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Panepistimiopolis, Zografos 15784, Greece
2
Max-Planck Institut für Astrophysik, Karl-Schwarzschild-Str. 1, 85741 Garching, Germany
e-mail: constant@mpa-garching.mpg.de
3
Institute for Astronomy, Astrophysics, Space Applications, and Remote Sensing, National Observatory of Athens, 15236 Penteli, Greece
4
Observatoire de Paris, LERMA, 61 Av. de l’Observatoire, 75014 Paris, France
Received:
11
October
2018
Accepted:
19
July
2019
The nearby system 4C12.50, also known as IRAS 13451+1217 and PKS 1345+12, is a merger of gas-rich galaxies with infrared and radio activity. It has a perturbed interstellar medium (ISM) and a dense configuration of gas and dust around the nucleus. The radio emission at small (∼100 pc) and large (∼100 kpc) scales, as well as the large X-ray cavity in which the system is embedded, are indicative of a jet that could have affected the ISM. We carried out observations of the CO(1−0), (3−2), and (4−3) lines with the Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA) to determine basic properties (i.e., extent, mass, and excitation) of the cold molecular gas in this system, including its already-known wind. The CO emission reveals the presence of gaseous streams related to the merger, which result in a small (∼4 kpc-wide) disk around the western nucleus. The disk reaches a rotational velocity of 200 km s−1, and has a mass of 3.8(±0.4) × 109 M⊙. It is truncated at a gaseous ridge north of the nucleus that is bright in [O III]. Regions with high-velocity CO emission are seen at signal-to-noise ratios of between 3 and 5 along filaments that radially extend from the nucleus to the ridge and that are bright in [O III] and stellar emission. A tentative wind detection is also reported in the nucleus and in the disk. The molecular gas speed could be as high as 2200 km s−1 and the total wind mass could be as high as 1.5(±0.1) × 109 M⊙. Energetically, it is possible that the jet, assisted by the radiation pressure of the active nucleus or the stars, accelerated clouds inside an expanding bubble.
Key words: ISM: jets and outflows / ISM: kinematics and dynamics / line: profiles / galaxies: active / galaxies: nuclei / infrared: galaxies
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© C. M. Fotopoulou et al. 2019
Open Access article, published by EDP Sciences, under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Open Access funding provided by Max Planck Society.
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