Ionized gas within roughly 600 pc of the supermassive black hole in PKS 0745-191 is chaotic and non-rotating, with a sharp central velocity dispersion that suggests a black hole of about 1.5e10 solar masses.
Complex Velocity Structure of Nebular Gas in Active Galaxies Centred in Cooling X-ray Atmospheres
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[OII] emission maps obtained with the Keck Cosmic Web Imager (KCWI) are presented for four galaxies centered in cooling X-ray cluster atmospheres. Nebular emission extending tens of kpc is found in systems covering a broad range of atmospheric cooling rates, cluster masses, and dynamical states. Abell 262's central galaxy hosts a kpc-scale disk. The nebular gas in RXJ0820.9+0752 is offset and redshifted with respect to the central galaxy by $10-20$ kpc and 150 km s$^{-1}$, respectively. The nebular gases in PKS 0745-191 and Abell 1835 are being churned to higher velocity dispersion by X-ray bubbles and jets. The churned gas is enveloped by larger scale, lower velocity dispersion (quiescent) nebular emission. The mean line-of-sight speeds of the churned gas, quiescent gas, and the central galaxy each differ by up to $\sim 150$ km s$^{-1}$; nebular speeds upward of $800$ km s$^{-1}$ are found. Gases with outwardly-rising speeds upward of several hundred km s$^{-1}$ are consistent with being advected behind and being lifted by the rising bubbles. The peculiar motion between the galaxy, nebular gas, and perhaps the hot atmosphere from which it presumably condensed is affecting the bubble dynamics, and may strongly affect thermally unstable cooling, the dispersal of jet energy, and the angular momentum of gas accreting onto the galaxies and their nuclear black holes.
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HST Observations within the Sphere of Influence of the Powerful Supermassive Black Hole in PKS0745-191
Ionized gas within roughly 600 pc of the supermassive black hole in PKS 0745-191 is chaotic and non-rotating, with a sharp central velocity dispersion that suggests a black hole of about 1.5e10 solar masses.