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2017ApJ...834..184C - Astrophys. J., 834, 184-184 (2017/January-2)

A nearly naked supermassive black hole.

CONDON J.J., DARLING J., KOVALEV Y.Y. and PETROV L.

Abstract (from CDS):

During a systematic search for supermassive black holes (SMBHs) not in galactic nuclei, we identified the compact, symmetric radio source B3 1715+425 with an emission-line galaxy offset ~8.5 kpc from the nucleus of the brightest cluster galaxy (BCG) in the redshift z = 0.1754 cluster ZwCl 8193. B3 1715+425 is too bright (brightness temperature Tb∼3×1010 K at observing frequency ν=7.6 GHz) and too luminous (1.4 GHz luminosity L1.4GHz∼1025 W Hz–1) to be powered by anything but an SMBH, but its host galaxy is much smaller (∼0.9 kpc×0.6 kpc full width between half-maximum points) and optically fainter (R-band absolute magnitude Mr~-18.2) than any other radio galaxy. Its high radial velocity vr~1860 km s–1 relative to the BCG, continuous ionized wake extending back to the BCG nucleus, and surrounding debris indicate that the radio galaxy was tidally shredded passing through the BCG core, leaving a nearly naked SMBH fleeing from the BCG with space velocity v 2000 km s–1. The radio galaxy has mass M 6×109 M and infrared luminosity LIR∼3×1011 L close to its dust Eddington limit, so it is vulnerable to further mass loss from radiative feedback.

Abstract Copyright: © 2017. The American Astronomical Society. All rights reserved.

Journal keyword(s): black hole physics - galaxies: active - galaxies: clusters: individual: ZwCl 8193 - galaxies: interactions - galaxies: nuclei - galaxies: peculiar - galaxies: peculiar

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