Multi-phase black-hole feedback and a bright [CII] halo in a Lo-BAL quasar at $z\sim6.6$
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| author | Bischetti, Manuela Choi, Hyunseop Fiore, Fabrizio Feruglio, Chiara Carniani, Stefano D'Odorico, Valentina Bañados, Eduardo Chen, Huanqing Decarli, Roberto Gallerani, Simona Hlavacek-Larrondo, Julie Lai, Samuel Leighly, Karen M. Mazzucchelli, Chiara Perreault-Levasseur, Laurence Tripodi, Roberta Walter, Fabian Wang, Feige Yang, Jinyi Zanchettin, Maria Vittoria Zhu, Yongda |
| author_facet | Bischetti, Manuela Choi, Hyunseop Fiore, Fabrizio Feruglio, Chiara Carniani, Stefano D'Odorico, Valentina Bañados, Eduardo Chen, Huanqing Decarli, Roberto Gallerani, Simona Hlavacek-Larrondo, Julie Lai, Samuel Leighly, Karen M. Mazzucchelli, Chiara Perreault-Levasseur, Laurence Tripodi, Roberta Walter, Fabian Wang, Feige Yang, Jinyi Zanchettin, Maria Vittoria Zhu, Yongda |
| contents | Although the mass growth of supermassive black holes during the Epoch of Reionisation is expected to play a role in shaping the concurrent growth of their host-galaxies, observational evidence of feedback at z$\gtrsim$6 is still sparse. We perform the first multi-scale and multi-phase characterisation of black-hole driven outflows in the $z\sim6.6$ quasar J0923+0402 and assess how these winds impact the cold gas reservoir. We employ the SimBAL spectral synthesis to fit broad absorption line (BAL) features and find a powerful ionized outflow on $\lesssim210$ pc scale, with a kinetic power $\sim2-100$\% of the quasar luminosity. ALMA observations of [CII] emission allow us to study the morphology and kinematics of the cold gas. We detect high-velocity [CII] emission, likely associated with a cold neutral outflow at $\sim0.5-2$ kpc scale in the host-galaxy, and a bright extended [CII] halo with a size of $\sim15$ kpc. For the first time at such an early epoch, we accurately constrain the outflow energetics in both the ionized and the atomic neutral gas phases. We find such energetics to be consistent with expectations for an efficient feedback mechanism, and both ejective and preventative feedback modes are likely at play. The scales and energetics of the ionized and atomic outflows suggest that they might be associated with different quasar accretion episodes. The results of this work indicate that strong black hole feedback is occurring in quasars at $z\gtrsim6$ and is likely responsible for shaping the properties of the cold gas reservoir up to circum-galactic scales. |
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| spellingShingle | Multi-phase black-hole feedback and a bright [CII] halo in a Lo-BAL quasar at $z\sim6.6$ Bischetti, Manuela Choi, Hyunseop Fiore, Fabrizio Feruglio, Chiara Carniani, Stefano D'Odorico, Valentina Bañados, Eduardo Chen, Huanqing Decarli, Roberto Gallerani, Simona Hlavacek-Larrondo, Julie Lai, Samuel Leighly, Karen M. Mazzucchelli, Chiara Perreault-Levasseur, Laurence Tripodi, Roberta Walter, Fabian Wang, Feige Yang, Jinyi Zanchettin, Maria Vittoria Zhu, Yongda Astrophysics of Galaxies Although the mass growth of supermassive black holes during the Epoch of Reionisation is expected to play a role in shaping the concurrent growth of their host-galaxies, observational evidence of feedback at z$\gtrsim$6 is still sparse. We perform the first multi-scale and multi-phase characterisation of black-hole driven outflows in the $z\sim6.6$ quasar J0923+0402 and assess how these winds impact the cold gas reservoir. We employ the SimBAL spectral synthesis to fit broad absorption line (BAL) features and find a powerful ionized outflow on $\lesssim210$ pc scale, with a kinetic power $\sim2-100$\% of the quasar luminosity. ALMA observations of [CII] emission allow us to study the morphology and kinematics of the cold gas. We detect high-velocity [CII] emission, likely associated with a cold neutral outflow at $\sim0.5-2$ kpc scale in the host-galaxy, and a bright extended [CII] halo with a size of $\sim15$ kpc. For the first time at such an early epoch, we accurately constrain the outflow energetics in both the ionized and the atomic neutral gas phases. We find such energetics to be consistent with expectations for an efficient feedback mechanism, and both ejective and preventative feedback modes are likely at play. The scales and energetics of the ionized and atomic outflows suggest that they might be associated with different quasar accretion episodes. The results of this work indicate that strong black hole feedback is occurring in quasars at $z\gtrsim6$ and is likely responsible for shaping the properties of the cold gas reservoir up to circum-galactic scales. |
| title | Multi-phase black-hole feedback and a bright [CII] halo in a Lo-BAL quasar at $z\sim6.6$ |
| topic | Astrophysics of Galaxies |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.12443 |