The Astrophysical Journal (Jan 2023)
First Results from the JWST Early Release Science Program Q3D: The Warm Ionized Gas Outflow in z ∼ 1.6 Quasar XID 2028 and Its Impact on the Host Galaxy
- Sylvain Veilleux,
- Weizhe Liu,
- Andrey Vayner,
- Dominika Wylezalek,
- David S. N. Rupke,
- Nadia L. Zakamska,
- Yuzo Ishikawa,
- Caroline Bertemes,
- Jorge K. Barrera-Ballesteros,
- Hsiao-Wen Chen,
- Nadiia Diachenko,
- Andy D. Goulding,
- Jenny E. Greene,
- Kevin N. Hainline,
- Fred Hamann,
- Timothy Heckman,
- Sean D. Johnson,
- Hui Xian Grace Lim,
- Dieter Lutz,
- Nora Lützgendorf,
- Vincenzo Mainieri,
- Roberto Maiolino,
- Ryan McCrory,
- Grey Murphree,
- Nicole P. H. Nesvadba,
- Patrick Ogle,
- Swetha Sankar,
- Eckhard Sturm,
- Lillian Whitesell
Affiliations
- Sylvain Veilleux
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- Department of Astronomy and Joint Space-Science Institute, University of Maryland , College Park, MD 20742, USA
- Weizhe Liu
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- Department of Astronomy, Steward Observatory, University of Arizona , Tucson, AZ 85719, USA ; [email protected]
- Andrey Vayner
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Bloomberg Center, Johns Hopkins University , Baltimore, MD 21218, USA
- Dominika Wylezalek
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- Zentrum für Astronomie der Universität Heidelberg, Astronomisches Rechen-Institut , Mönchhofstraße 12-14, D-69120 Heidelberg, Germany
- David S. N. Rupke
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- Department of Physics, Rhodes College , Memphis, TN 38112, USA
- Nadia L. Zakamska
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Bloomberg Center, Johns Hopkins University , Baltimore, MD 21218, USA; Institute for Advanced Study , Princeton, NJ 08540, USA
- Yuzo Ishikawa
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Bloomberg Center, Johns Hopkins University , Baltimore, MD 21218, USA
- Caroline Bertemes
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- Zentrum für Astronomie der Universität Heidelberg, Astronomisches Rechen-Institut , Mönchhofstraße 12-14, D-69120 Heidelberg, Germany
- Jorge K. Barrera-Ballesteros
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- Instituto de Astronomía, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México , AP 70-264, CDMX 04510, Mexico
- Hsiao-Wen Chen
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- Department of Astronomy & Astrophysics, The University of Chicago , 5640 South Ellis Avenue, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
- Nadiia Diachenko
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Bloomberg Center, Johns Hopkins University , 3400 North Charles Street, Baltimore, MD 21218, USA
- Andy D. Goulding
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- Department of Astrophysical Sciences, Princeton University , 4 Ivy Lane, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA
- Jenny E. Greene
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- Department of Astrophysical Sciences, Princeton University , 4 Ivy Lane, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA
- Kevin N. Hainline
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- Steward Observatory, University of Arizona , 933 North Cherry Avenue, Tucson, AZ 85721, USA
- Fred Hamann
- Department of Physics & Astronomy, University of California , Riverside, CA 92521, USA
- Timothy Heckman
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Bloomberg Center, Johns Hopkins University , Baltimore, MD 21218, USA
- Sean D. Johnson
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- Department of Astronomy, University of Michigan , Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
- Hui Xian Grace Lim
- Department of Physics, Rhodes College , Memphis, TN 38112, USA
- Dieter Lutz
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- Max-Planck-Institut für Extraterrestrische Physik , Giessenbachstrasse 1, D-85748 Garching, Germany
- Nora Lützgendorf
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- European Space Agency, Space Telescope Science Institute , Baltimore, MD 21218, USA
- Vincenzo Mainieri
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- European Southern Observatory , Karl-Schwarzschild-Straße 2, D-85748 Garching bei München, Germany
- Roberto Maiolino
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- Kavli Institute for Cosmology, University of Cambridge , Cambridge, CB3 0HE, UK; Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge , Cambridge, CB3 0HE, UK
- Ryan McCrory
- Department of Physics, Rhodes College , Memphis, TN 38112, USA
- Grey Murphree
- Department of Physics, Rhodes College , Memphis, TN 38112, USA; Institute for Astronomy, University of Hawai’i , Honolulu, HI 96822, USA
- Nicole P. H. Nesvadba
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- Université de la Côte d’Azur, Observatoire de la Côte d’Azur , CNRS, Laboratoire Lagrange, Bd de l’Observatoire, CS 34229, Nice cedex 4 F-06304, France
- Patrick Ogle
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- Space Telescope Science Institute , 3700, San Martin Drive, Baltimore, MD 21218, USA
- Swetha Sankar
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Bloomberg Center, Johns Hopkins University , 3400 North Charles Street, Baltimore, MD 21218, USA
- Eckhard Sturm
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- Max-Planck-Institut für Extraterrestrische Physik , Giessenbachstrasse 1, D-85748 Garching, Germany
- Lillian Whitesell
- Department of Physics, Rhodes College , Memphis, TN 38112, USA
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ace10f
- Journal volume & issue
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Vol. 953,
no. 1
p. 56
Abstract
Quasar feedback may regulate the growth of supermassive black holes, quench coeval star formation, and impact galaxy morphology and the circumgalactic medium. However, direct evidence for quasar feedback in action at the epoch of peak black hole accretion at z ≈ 2 remains elusive. A good case in point is the z = 1.6 quasar WISEA J100211.29+013706.7 (XID 2028), where past analyses of the same ground-based data have come to different conclusions. Here, we revisit this object with the integral-field unit of the Near Infrared Spectrograph on board the JWST as part of Early Release Science program Q3D. The excellent angular resolution and sensitivity of the JWST data reveal new morphological and kinematic substructures in the outflowing gas plume. An analysis of the emission-line ratios indicates that photoionization by the central quasar dominates the ionization state of the gas with no obvious sign for a major contribution from hot young stars anywhere in the host galaxy. The rest-frame near-UV emission aligned along the wide-angle cone of outflowing gas is interpreted as a scattering cone. The outflow has cleared a channel in the dusty host galaxy, through which some of the quasar ionizing radiation is able to escape and heat the surrounding interstellar and circumgalactic media. Although the warm ionized outflow is not powerful enough to impact the host galaxy via mechanical feedback, radiative feedback by the active galactic nucleus, aided by the outflow, may help to explain the unusually small molecular gas mass fraction in the galaxy host.
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