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A Dissection of Spatially Resolved AGN Feedback across the Electromagnetic Spectrum

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arxiv 1911.05805 v1 pith:MLBG34MU submitted 2019-11-13 astro-ph.GA

A Dissection of Spatially Resolved AGN Feedback across the Electromagnetic Spectrum

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We present optical SuperNova Integral Field Spectrograph (SNIFS) integral field spectroscopy, Hubble Space Telescope optical imaging, Chandra X-ray imaging, and Very Large Array radio interferometry of the merging galaxy 2MASX J04234080+0408017, which hosts a Seyfert 2 active galactic nucleus (AGN) at z = 0.046. Our observations reveal that radiatively driven, ionized gas outflows are successful to distances > 10 kpc due to the low mass of the host system, encompassing the entirety of the observed optical emission. We also find that at large radii, where observed velocities cannot be reproduced by radiative driving models, high velocity kinematics are likely due to mechanical driving from AGN winds impacting high density host material. This impacting deposits sufficient energy to shock the host material, producing thermal X-ray emission and cosmic rays, which in turn promote the formation of in situ radio structure in a pseudo-jet morphology along the high density lanes.

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