Bipolar blobs as evidence of hidden AGN activities in the low-mass galaxies
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| author | Yao, Yao Wang, Enci He, Zhicheng Lin, Zheyu Rong, Yu Zhang, Hong-Xin Kong, Xu |
| author_facet | Yao, Yao Wang, Enci He, Zhicheng Lin, Zheyu Rong, Yu Zhang, Hong-Xin Kong, Xu |
| contents | We report the evidence of a hidden black hole (BH) in a low-mass galaxy, MaNGA 9885-9102, and provide a new method to identify active BH in low mass galaxies. This galaxy is originally selected from the MaNGA survey with distinctive bipolar H$α$ blobs at the minor axis. The bipolar feature can be associated with AGN activity, while the two blobs are classified as the H II regions on the BPT diagram, making the origins confusing. The Swift UV continuum shows that the two blobs do not have UV counterparts, suggesting that the source of ionization is out of the blobs. Consistent with this, the detailed photoionization models prefer to AGN rather than star-forming origin with a significance of 5.8$σ$. The estimated BH mass is $M_{\rm BH}\sim$7.2$\times 10^5 M_\odot$ from the $M_{\rm BH}-σ_*$ relationship. This work introduces a novel method for detecting the light echo of BHs, potentially extending to intermediate mass, in low metallicity environments where the traditional BPT diagram fails. |
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| spellingShingle | Bipolar blobs as evidence of hidden AGN activities in the low-mass galaxies Yao, Yao Wang, Enci He, Zhicheng Lin, Zheyu Rong, Yu Zhang, Hong-Xin Kong, Xu Astrophysics of Galaxies High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena We report the evidence of a hidden black hole (BH) in a low-mass galaxy, MaNGA 9885-9102, and provide a new method to identify active BH in low mass galaxies. This galaxy is originally selected from the MaNGA survey with distinctive bipolar H$α$ blobs at the minor axis. The bipolar feature can be associated with AGN activity, while the two blobs are classified as the H II regions on the BPT diagram, making the origins confusing. The Swift UV continuum shows that the two blobs do not have UV counterparts, suggesting that the source of ionization is out of the blobs. Consistent with this, the detailed photoionization models prefer to AGN rather than star-forming origin with a significance of 5.8$σ$. The estimated BH mass is $M_{\rm BH}\sim$7.2$\times 10^5 M_\odot$ from the $M_{\rm BH}-σ_*$ relationship. This work introduces a novel method for detecting the light echo of BHs, potentially extending to intermediate mass, in low metallicity environments where the traditional BPT diagram fails. |
| title | Bipolar blobs as evidence of hidden AGN activities in the low-mass galaxies |
| topic | Astrophysics of Galaxies High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.13841 |