Jet cocoons and the formation of Narrow Line Clouds in Seyfert galaxies

Details Jet cocoons and the formation of Narrow Line Clouds in Seyfert galaxies Jet cocoons and the formation of Narrow Line Clouds in Seyfert galaxies

1996-12-05

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9612051v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

11 pages, 5 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS

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We present non-adiabatic hydrodynamic simulations of a supersonic light jet propagating into a fully ionized medium of uniform density on a scale representative of the narrow line region (NLR) in Seyfert galaxies with associated radio jets. In this regime the cooling distance of the swept up gas in the bowshock of the jet is of the same order as the transverse extent of the jet bowshock, as opposed to the more extreme regimes found for more powerful adiabatic large scale jets or the slow galactic jets which have been simulated previously. We calculate the emissivity for the H_alpha line and radio synchrotron emission. We find that the structure of the line emitting cold envelope of the jet cocoon is strongly dependent on the non-stationary dynamics of the jet head as it propagates through the ambient medium. We observe the formation of cloud-like high density regions which we associate with NLR clouds and filaments. We find that some of these clouds might be partially neutral and represent sites of jet induced star formation. The calculated H_alpha flux and the spectral line width are consistent with NLR observations. The simulation of the radio-optical emission with radiative cooling confirms the basic result of the geometric bowshock model developed by Taylor et al. (1989) that the start of noticeable optical line emission can be significantly offset from the hotspot of the radio emission. However, the time-dependent nature of the jet dynamics implies significant differences from their geometric bowshock model.

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