A molecular absorption line survey towards the AGN of Hydra-A

Author:

Rose Tom1ORCID,Edge A C1,Combes F2,Hamer S3ORCID,McNamara B R4,Russell H5,Gaspari M6ORCID,Salomé P2,Sarazin C7,Tremblay G R8,Baum S A910,Bremer M N11,Donahue M12,Fabian A C13ORCID,Ferland G14,Nesvadba N15,O’Dea C916ORCID,Oonk J B R171819,Peck A B20

Affiliation:

1. Centre for Extragalactic Astronomy, Durham University, Durham DH1 3LE, UK

2. LERMA, Observatoire de Paris, PSL Research University, College de France, CNRS, Sorbonne University, Paris, France

3. Department of Physics, University of Bath, North Road, Bath BA2 7AY, USA

4. Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Waterloo, Waterloo ON N2L 3G1, Canada

5. Centre for Astronomy & Particle Theory, University of Nottingham, Nottingham NG7 2RD, UK

6. Department of Astrophysical Sciences, 4 Ivy Lane, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA

7. Department of Astronomy, University of Virginia, 530 McCormick Road, Charlottesville, VA 22904, USA

8. Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian, 60 Garden Str, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA

9. Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg MB R3T 2N2, Canada

10. Chester F. Carlson Center for Imaging Science, Rochester Institute of Technology, 84 Lomb Memorial Dr., NY 14623, USA

11. HH Wills Physics Laboratory, Tyndall Avenue, Bristol BS8 1TL, UK

12. Physics and Astronomy Department, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824, USA

13. Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge University, Madingly Road, Cambridge CB3 0HA, UK

14. Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40506, USA

15. Université Côte d’Azur, Observatoire de la Côte d’Azur, CNRS, Laboratoire Lagrange, Bd de l’Observatoire, CS 34229, F-06304 Nice cedex 4, France

16. School of Physics and Astronomy, Rochester Institute of Technology, 85 Lomb Memorial Drive, USA

17. SURFsara, P.O. Box 94613, NL-1090 GP Amsterdam, the Netherlands

18. ASTRON, Netherlands Institute for Radio Astronomy, NL-7990AA Dwingeloo, the Netherlands

19. Leiden Observatory, Leiden University, Niels Borhweg 2, NL-2333 CA Leiden, the Netherlands

20. Gemini Observatory, Northern Operation Center, 67-0 N. A’Ohoku Place, Hilo, HI, USA

Abstract

ABSTRACT We present Atacama Large Millimetre/submillimetre Array observations of the brightest cluster galaxy Hydra-A, a nearby (z = 0.054) giant elliptical galaxy with powerful and extended radio jets. The observations reveal CO(1−0), CO(2–1), 13CO(2–1), CN(2–1), SiO(5–4), HCO+(1–0), HCO+(2–1), HCN(1–0), HCN(2–1), HNC(1–0), and H2CO(3–2) absorption lines against the galaxy’s bright and compact active galactic nucleus. These absorption features are due to at least 12 individual molecular clouds that lie close to the centre of the galaxy and have velocities of approximately −50 to +10 km s−1 relative to its recession velocity, where positive values correspond to inward motion. The absorption profiles are evidence of a clumpy interstellar medium within brightest cluster galaxies composed of clouds with similar column densities, velocity dispersions, and excitation temperatures to those found at radii of several kpc in the Milky Way. We also show potential variation in a ∼10 km s−1 wide section of the absorption profile over a 2 yr time-scale, most likely caused by relativistic motions in the hot spots of the continuum source that change the background illumination of the absorbing clouds.

Funder

STFC

Princeton University

NASA

Publisher

Oxford University Press (OUP)

Subject

Space and Planetary Science,Astronomy and Astrophysics

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