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Discovery of a Pseudobulge Galaxy Launching Powerful Relativistic Jets




AuthorsJari K. Kotilainen, Jonathan León-Tavares, Alejandro Olguín-Iglesias, Maarten Baes, Christopher Anórve, Vahram Chavushyan, Luis Carrasco

PublisherIOP Science

Publication year2016

JournalAstrophysical Journal

Journal acronymApJ

Article number157

Volume832

Issue2

Number of pages8

ISSN0004-637X

DOIhttps://doi.org/10.3847/0004-637X/832/2/157

Self-archived copy’s web addresshttps://arxiv.org/abs/1609.02417


Abstract

Supermassive black holes launching plasma jets at close to the speed of light, producing gamma-rays, have ubiquitously been found to be hosted by massive elliptical galaxies. Since elliptical galaxies are generally believed to be built through galaxy mergers, active galactic nuclei (AGN) launching relativistic jets are associated with the latest stages of galaxy evolution. We have discovered a pseudobulge morphology in the host galaxy of the gamma-ray AGN PKS 2004-447. This is the first gamma-ray emitter radio-loud AGN found to have been launched from a system where both the black hole and host galaxy have been actively growing via secular processes. This is evidence of an alternative black hole-galaxy co-evolutionary path to develop powerful relativistic jets, which is not merger driven.


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