Red quasars are a population, characterized by significant extinction in UV, which could be explained by absorption of dusty gas on a scale of a few kpc. We show that the enhanced radiation-pressure drives the dusty gas to supersonically expand and produces shocks. The shocks energize electrons to be relativistic via the first Fermi acceleration. As a balance of shock acceleration and synchrotron emission and inverse Compton scattering, the maximum Lorentz factor of the electrons reaches as ∼106. The shocked interstellar medium appears as extended multiwavelength fuzz, in which synchrotron emission from the electrons peaks at near infrared or UV bands and inverse Compton scattering around 1.0GeV−0.1TeV. Future multiwavelength images of the fuzz would provide new clues to study the details of radiative feedback if red quasars could be a certain phase in evolutionary chains of galaxies.
@article{arxiv.0806.1530,
title = {Extended multiwavelength fuzz around red quasars: observational appearance of radiative feedback in action},
author = {Jian-Min Wang},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0806.1530},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
4 emulateapj.sty page with one Figure and one Table. Accepted by the ApJ Letters