Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics – Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2012-01-06
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics
26 pages, 15 figures, Accepted for ublication in ApJ
Scientific paper
Observations of ionized and neutral gas outflows in radio-galaxies (RGs) suggest that AGN radio jet feedback has a galaxy-scale impact on the host ISM, but it is still unclear how the molecular gas is affected. We present deep Spitzer IRS spectroscopy of 8 RGs that show fast HI outflows. All of these HI-outflow RGs have bright H2 mid-IR lines that cannot be accounted for by UV or X-ray heating. This suggests that the radio jet, which drives the HI outflow, is also responsible for the shock-excitation of the warm H2 gas. In addition, the warm H2 gas does not share the kinematics of the ionized/neutral gas. The mid-IR ionized gas lines are systematically broader than the H2 lines, which are resolved by the IRS (with FWHM up to 900km/s) in 60% of the detected H2 lines. In 5 sources, the NeII line, and to a lesser extent the NeIII and NeV lines, exhibit blue-shifted wings (up to -900km/s with respect to the systemic velocity) that match the kinematics of the outflowing HI or ionized gas. The H2 lines do not show broad wings, except tentative detections in 3 sources. This shows that, contrary to the HI gas, the H2 gas is inefficiently coupled to the AGN jet-driven outflow of ionized gas. While the dissipation of a small fraction (<10%) of the jet kinetic power can explain the dynamical heating of the molecular gas, our data show that the bulk of the warm molecular gas is not expelled from these galaxies.
Appleton Philip
Emonts Bjorn
Evans Aaron
Evans Dan
Guillard Pierre
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