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Cold-gas outflows in typical low-redshift galaxies are driven by star formation, not AGN
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Sarzi, M and Kaviraj, S and Nedelchev, B and Tiffany, J and Shabala, SS and Deller, AT and Middelberg, E, Cold-gas outflows in typical low-redshift galaxies are driven by star formation, not AGN, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 456, (1) pp. L25-L29. ISSN 0035-8711 (2016) [Refereed Article]
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DOI: doi:10.1093/mnrasl/slv165
Abstract
Energetic feedback from active galactic nuclei (AGN) is an important ingredient for regulating the star formation history
of galaxies in models of galaxy formation, which makes it important to study how AGN feedback actually occurs in practice.
In order to catch AGNs in the act of quenching star formation, we have used the interstellar Na ɪ λλ5890, 5895(NaD) absorption lines to look for cold-gas outflows in a sample of 456 nearby galaxies for which we could unambiguously
ascertain the presence of radio-AGN activity, thanks to radio imaging at milli-arcsecond scales. While compact radio emission
indicating a radio AGN was found in 103 galaxies (23 per cent of the sample), and 23 objects (5 per cent) exhibited NaD absorption-line
kinematics suggestive of cold-gas outflows, not one object showed evidence of a radio AGN and of a cold-gas outflow simultaneously.
Radio-AGN activity was found predominantly in early-type galaxies, while cold-gas outflows were mainly seen in spiral galaxies
with central star formation or composite star formation/AGN activity. Optical AGNs also do not seem capable of driving galactic
winds in our sample. Our work adds to a picture of the low-redshift Universe, where cold-gas outflows in massive galaxies
are generally driven by star formation and where radio-AGN activity occurs most often in systems in which the gas reservoir
has already been significantly depleted.
Item Details
| Item Type: | Refereed Article |
|---|---|
| Keywords: | galaxies: elliptical and lenticular, cD, galaxies: evolution, galaxies: nuclei, galaxies: spiral |
| Research Division: | Physical Sciences |
| Research Group: | Astronomical sciences |
| Research Field: | Cosmology and extragalactic astronomy |
| Objective Division: | Expanding Knowledge |
| Objective Group: | Expanding knowledge |
| Objective Field: | Expanding knowledge in the physical sciences |
| UTAS Author: | Shabala, SS (Associate Professor Stas Shabala) |
| ID Code: | 107317 |
| Year Published: | 2016 |
| Funding Support: | Australian Research Council (DE130101399) |
| Web of Science® Times Cited: | 17 |
| Deposited By: | Mathematics and Physics |
| Deposited On: | 2016-03-10 |
| Last Modified: | 2017-11-01 |
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