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Jaffe W Meisenheimer K Röttgering HJ Leinert Ch Richichi A Chesneau O Fraix-Burnet D Glazenborg-Kluttig A Granato GL Graser U Heijligers B Köhler R Malbet F Miley GK Paresce F Pel JW Perrin G Przygodda F Schoeller M Sol H Waters LB Weigelt G Woillez J De Zeeuw PT 《Nature》2004,429(6987):47-49
Active galactic nuclei (AGNs) display many energetic phenomena--broad emission lines, X-rays, relativistic jets, radio lobes--originating from matter falling onto a supermassive black hole. It is widely accepted that orientation effects play a major role in explaining the observational appearance of AGNs. Seen from certain directions, circum-nuclear dust clouds would block our view of the central powerhouse. Indirect evidence suggests that the dust clouds form a parsec-sized torus-shaped distribution. This explanation, however, remains unproved, as even the largest telescopes have not been able to resolve the dust structures. Here we report interferometric mid-infrared observations that spatially resolve these structures in the galaxy NGC 1068. The observations reveal warm (320 K) dust in a structure 2.1 parsec thick and 3.4 parsec in diameter, surrounding a smaller hot structure. As such a configuration of dust clouds would collapse in a time much shorter than the active phase of the AGN, this observation requires a continual input of kinetic energy to the cloud system from a source coexistent with the AGN. 相似文献
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Miley GK Overzier RA Tsvetanov ZI Bouwens RJ Benítez N Blakeslee JP Ford HC Illingworth GD Postman M Rosati P Clampin M Hartig GF Zirm AW Röttgering HJ Venemans BP Ardila DR Bartko F Broadhurst TJ Brown RA Burrows CJ Cheng ES Cross NJ De Breuck C Feldman PD Franx M Golimowski DA Gronwall C Infante L Martel AR Menanteau F Meurer GR Sirianni M Kimble RA Krist JE Sparks WB Tran HD White RL Zheng W 《Nature》2004,427(6969):47-50
The most massive galaxies and the richest clusters are believed to have emerged from regions with the largest enhancements of mass density relative to the surrounding space. Distant radio galaxies may pinpoint the locations of the ancestors of rich clusters, because they are massive systems associated with 'overdensities' of galaxies that are bright in the Lyman-alpha line of hydrogen. A powerful technique for detecting high-redshift galaxies is to search for the characteristic 'Lyman break' feature in the galaxy colour, at wavelengths just shortwards of Lyalpha, which is due to absorption of radiation from the galaxy by the intervening intergalactic medium. Here we report multicolour imaging of the most distant candidate protocluster, TN J1338-1942 at a redshift z approximately 4.1. We find a large number of objects with the characteristic colours of galaxies at that redshift, and we show that this excess is concentrated around the targeted dominant radio galaxy. Our data therefore indicate that TN J1338-1942 is indeed the most distant cluster progenitor of a rich local cluster, and that galaxy clusters began forming when the Universe was only ten per cent of its present age. 相似文献
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