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A Supernova Factory in Mrk 273? | | M. Bondi
; M-A. Perez-Torres
; D. Dallacasa
; T.W.B. Muxlow
; | | Date: |
18 May 2005 | | Journal: | Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc. 361 (2005) 748-752 | | Subject: | astro-ph | | Affiliation: | INAF-IRA, Bologna, Italy, Instituto de Astrofisica de Andalucia CSIC, Granada, Spain, Dipartimento di Astronomia, Universita` di Bologna, Italy, Jodrell Bank Observatory, Macclesfield, U.K | | Abstract: | We report on 1.6 and 5.0 GHz observations of the ultraluminous infrared galaxy (ULIRG) Mrk 273, using the European VLBI Network (EVN) and the Multi-Element Radio-Linked Interferometer Network (MERLIN). We also make use of published 1.4 GHz VLBA observations of Mrk 273 by Carilli & Taylor (2000). Our 5 GHz images have a maximum resolution of 5-10 mas, which corresponds to linear resolutions of 3.5-7 pc at the distance of Mrk 273, and are the most sensitive high-resolution radio observations yet made of this ULIRG. Component N1, often pinpointed as a possible AGN, displays a steep spectral index ($alpha = 1.2 pm 0.1; S_
u propto
u^{-alpha}$); hence it is very difficult to reconcile with N1 being an AGN, and rather suggests that the compact nonthermal radio emission is produced by an extremely high luminous individual radio supernova (RSN), or a combination of unresolved emission from nested supernova remnants (SNR), luminous RSNe, or both. Component N2 is partly resolved out into several compact radio sources --none of which clearly dominates-- and a region of extended emission about 30 pc in size. The integrated spectral index of this region is flat ($alpha = 0.15 pm 0.1$), which can be interpreted as due to a superposition of several unresolved components, e.g., RSNe or SNRs, whose radio emission peaks at different frequencies and is partially free-free absorbed. The overall extended radio emission from component N is typical of nonthermal, optically thin radio emission ($alpha = 0.8 pm 0.1$), and its 1.4 GHz luminosity ($L_{1.4
m GHz} = (2.2 pm 0.1) imes 10^{23} $ WHz$^{-1}$) is consistent with being produced by relativistic electrons diffused away from supernova remnants in an outburst. | | Source: | arXiv, astro-ph/0505370 | | Services: | Forum | Review | PDF | Favorites | |
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