2024MNRAS.529.4500M -
Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc., 529, 4500-4511 (2024/April-3)
Properties of a fading AGN from SDSS-IV MaNGA.
MO H., CHEN Y.-M., ZHANG Z.-Y., MOISEEV A., BIZYAEV D., SHI Y., GU Q.-S., BAO M., CAO X. and LI S.-L.
Abstract (from CDS):
We identify a fading AGN SDSS J220141.64+115124.3 from the internal Product Launch-11 (MPL-11) in Mapping Nearby Galaxies at Apache Point Observatory (MaNGA) survey. The central region with a projected radius of $\sim$2.4 kpc is characterized as LINER-like line ratios while the outskirts extended to $\sim$15 kpc show Seyfert-like line ratios. The ${\rm{[O {\small III}]}}$$\lambda$5007 luminosity of the Seyfert regions is a factor of 37 (2) higher than the LINER regions without (with) dust attenuation correction, suggesting that the AGN activity decreases at least $\sim$8 $\times$ 10$^3$ yr ($\sim$2.4 kpc/light-speed) ago. We model the emission line spectra in the central region with double Gaussian components (a narrow core and a broad wing) and analyse the properties of each component. The narrow core component mostly co-rotates with the stellar disc, whereas the broad wing component with a median of the velocity dispersion $\sim$300 km s$^{-1}$ is related to a wind outflow. The kinematic position angle (PA) of the ionized gas shows an $\sim 20^{\circ }$ twist from the galaxy centre to 1.5 effective radius. The median of the PA difference between the gas and stellar components is as large as $\sim 50^{\circ }$ within 0.4 effective radius. The tidal feature in DESI image and star-gas misalignment suggest this galaxy is a merger remnant. Combining all these observational results as well as public available X-ray and MIR luminosities, we confirm this is a fading AGN, the merger process kick-started the central engine to quasar phase which ionized gas composed of tidal debris, and now the activity of the central black hole decreases. The discontinuity in ${\rm{[O {\small III}]}}$$\lambda$5007 flux and EQW maps is due to multiple AGN outbursts triggered by merger remnant gas inflows.
Abstract Copyright:
© The Author(s) 2024. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of Royal Astronomical Society.
Journal keyword(s):
galaxies: active - galaxies: evolution - galaxies: individual: SDSS J220141.64+115124.3 - galaxies: nuclei
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