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Cold and Warm Gas Outflows in Radio AGN

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 June 2010

Raffaella Morganti ,
Joanna Holt ,
Clive Tadhunter  and
Tom Oosterloo
Raffaella Morganti
Affiliation:
Netherlands Foundation for Research in Astronomy, Postbus 2, 7990 AA, Dwingeloo, The Netherlands Email: [email protected] Kapteyn Astronomical Institute, University of Groningen, P.O. Box 800, 9700 AV Groningen, The Netherlands
Joanna Holt
Affiliation:
Leiden Observatory, Leiden University, PO Box 9513, 2300 RA Leiden, The Netherlands
Clive Tadhunter
Affiliation:
Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, S3 7RH, UK
Tom Oosterloo
Affiliation:
Netherlands Foundation for Research in Astronomy, Postbus 2, 7990 AA, Dwingeloo, The Netherlands Email: [email protected] Kapteyn Astronomical Institute, University of Groningen, P.O. Box 800, 9700 AV Groningen, The Netherlands
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Abstract

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The study of the conditions and the kinematics of the gas in the central region of AGN provides important information on the relevance of feedback effects connected to the nuclear activity. Quantifying these effects is key for constraining galaxy evolution models. Here we present a short summary of our recent efforts to study the occurrence and the impact of gas outflows in radio-loud AGN that are in their first phase of their evolution. Clear evidence for AGN-induced outflows has been found for the majority of these young radio sources. The outflows are detected both in (warm) ionized as well in (cold) atomic neutral gas, and they are likely to be driven (at least in most of the cases) by the interaction between the expanding jet and the medium. The mass outflow rates of the cold gas (Hi) appear to be systematically higher than those of the ionized gas. The former reach up to ~50 M⊙ yr−1 and are in the same range as “mild” starburst-driven superwinds in ULIRGs, whilst the latter are currently estimated to be a few solar masses per year. However, the kinetic powers associated with these gaseous outflows are a relatively small fraction (a few × 10−4) of the Eddington luminosity of the galaxy. Thus, they do not appear to match the requirements of the galaxy evolution feedback models.

Keywords

ISM: jets and outflowsgalaxies: jetsgalaxies: ISMgalaxies: activeradio lines: galaxies
Type
Contributed Papers
Information
Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union , Volume 5 , Symposium S267: Co-Evolution of Central Black Holes and Galaxies , August 2009 , pp. 429 - 437
Copyright
Copyright © International Astronomical Union 2010

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