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PKS 0529-549
Observation data (J2000.0 epoch)
ConstellationPictor
Right ascension05h 30m 25.21s
Declination-54d 54m 22.1s
Redshift2.574360
Heliocentric radial velocity771,774 km/s
Distance10.782 Gly (light travel time distance)
Apparent magnitude (V)0.171
Apparent magnitude (B)0.227
Surface brightness20.0
Notable featuresRadio galaxy, starburst galaxy
Other designations
PGC 2824392, PKS B0529-549, MRC 0529-549, PMMM 052927.1-545647, SUMSS J053025-545422

PKS 0529-549 known as MRC 0529-549 and PKS B0529-549, is a radio galaxy located in the constellation Pictor. At the redshift of 2.57, the object is located nearly 10.8 billion light-years away from Earth.[1]

Characteristics[edit]

PKS 0529-549 is one of the high redshift radio galaxies (HzRGs) found.[2][3][4] Detected from high-resolution 12-mm and 3-cm images, obtained by the Australia Telescope Compact Array, the galaxy is found to have a Type-II active galactic nucleus (AGN) showing two radio lobes. With a rest-frame of -9600 rad m-2, the eastern radio lobe holds a record for the highest Faraday rotation measure to date, signifying a strong magnetic field or either a dense circumgalactic medium.[5]

The host galaxy for PKS 0529-549 is a starburst galaxy[6] in the final stages of merging with another galaxy.[7] The result of this galaxy merger would be progenitor of an elliptical galaxy, in which causes increasing luminosity due to high star formation in its regions.[8] Signs of star formation included a plethora of absorption line features detected through using the deep X-shooter spectrum, stellar photospheric and wind features indicating presence of OB-type stars as well as both emission lines and low-ionization absorption features.[7]

From further observations, PKS 0529-549 has an energetic source of radiation located throughout most of the electromagnetic spectrum. Such HzRGs like PKS 0529-549 are extremely massive, including old stars (up to ~ 1012 M○), hot gas (up to ~ 1012 M○) and molecular gas (up to ~ 1011 M○).[9] Furthermore, galaxies with M⋆ ≳1011 M⊙ at z ≃ 2–3 tend to have star formation rates of order of ∼100 M⊙ yr−1. This suggests PKS 0529-549 lies above the mean SFR–M⋆ relation, in the so-called star-forming main sequence.[10]

Like most HzRGs, PKS 0529-549 is known to host large reservoirs of interstellar dust and gas.[11] Apart from that, the galaxy is found to exhibit both hot dust emission at 8.0 μm, with a significant internal visual extinction (~1.6 mag), inferred from Spitzer Space Telescope near/mid-IR imaging.[5]

Observations[edit]

According to researchers who observed PKS 0529-549 from Atacama Large Millimeter Array in Chile, it contains chlorine [C I] and doubly ionized oxygen [O III] which display regular velocity gradients. However, their systemic velocities and kinematic PAs differ by ∼300 km s−1 and ∼30°, respectively. The [C I] is consistent with a rotating disc, meaning it is aligned together with both the stellar and dust components, while the [O III] has a possible outflow trace, that is aligned with two active galactic nuclei-driven radio lobes in the host galaxy of PKS 0529–549.

Moreover, the [C I] cube is reproduced through a 3D disc model with Vrot ≃ 310 km s−1 and σV ≲ 30 km s−1⁠, giving Vrot/σV ≳10, comparable to local spiral galaxies.[12][13] This indicates that the [C I] disc of PKS 0529-549 is not particularly turbulent[14] and indeed remarkable considering that PKS 0529-549 is has a star formation at the rate of at ∼1000 M⊙ yr−1. Not to mention, it hosts a powerful radio-loud active galactic nucleus, with large amount of energy injected into its interstellar medium.[15]

PKS 0529-549 is known to lie on the local baryonic Tully–Fisher relation. This is interesting since it has both estimates of both M⋆ and Mmol, other than Vrot and σV according to researchers who studied the galaxy. The stellar mass of PKS 0529-549 according to them, are estimated to be M⋆/L[3.6] = 0.5 M○/L○ which is similar for all galaxies, as expected from stellar population synthesis models with a Kroupa IMF.[16]

Researchers further measured the rotation velocities along the flat part of the rotation curve (Vflat) in PKS 0529–549. This is probed by deep H I observations by Spitzer Photometry and Accurate Rotation Curves.[17] In the case, Vrot is an intensity-weighted estimate over the semimajor axis, since the [C I] emission is resolved with ∼2 beams. Thus, one might wonder whether they are probing Vflat. Local galaxies that have similar masses as PKS 0529-549 normally have rotation curves, peaking at very small radii (R ≲ 1 kpc). These tend to decline by around ∼20–30 percent before reaching Vflat.[18] This suggests some massive galaxies like PKS 0529-549 are in place and kinematically relaxed at z ≃ 2.6, when the universe was only ∼2.5 billion years old.[14]

References[edit]

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