Tololo 1247-232

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Tololo 1247-232 (T1247)
J2000 epoch)
ConstellationHydra
Right ascension12h 50m 18.80s
Declination−23° 33′ 57.0″
Redshift0.0480
Distance652 million
Apparent magnitude (V)−21
Characteristics
TypeStarburst galaxy
Notable featuresLyman Continuum leaker
Other designations
Tol 1247, EC 12476-2317, To 1247,
PGC 83589

Tololo 1247-232 (Tol 1247 or T1247) is a small galaxy at a distance of 652 million light-years (200 million parsecs) (redshift z=0.0480).[1] It is situated in the southern equatorial constellation of Hydra. Visually, Tol 1247 appears to be an irregular or possibly a barred spiral galaxy.[2] Tol 1247 is named after the surveys that were carried at the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory (CTIO), the first of which was in 1976.[3] It is one of nine galaxies in the local universe known to emit Lyman continuum photons.[4][5][6]

Background

The Victor M. Blanco Telescope at CTIO

Tol 1247-232 (T1247) was first described in 1985.[7] It was observed in the infrared using the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory (CTIO) 4m telescope, as part of a study of regions of intense star formation.[7]

Six years later, T1247 was identified as an HII galaxy in the paper 'A spectrophotometric catalogue of HII galaxies', a study of 425 emission-line galaxies.

Wolf–Rayet galaxy.[2]

Lyman continuum leakage

T1247 is one of nine galaxies in the local universe that have been identified as leaking Lyman continuum (LyC) photons.[1][4][9] The first published detection of Lyman continuum photons from T1247 was made in 2013 by Leitet et al. using data from the Far Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer (FUSE). It was the second-known LyC-leaking source in the local universe.[1]

An image from the HST WFC (using the UVIS channel) taken in 2013 as part of Program 13027

LyC leakage is crucial to the process known as

active galactic nuclei (AGN) and starbursts in dwarf galaxies. AGNs are known to produce large amounts of LyC emission, but in the early universe the number of AGNs is unknown, and often believed to be too small to power the reionization. On the other side, dwarf starbursts are known to be numerous in the early universe, but their LyC emission is unknown. For that reason local galaxies such as TOL1247 are studied in detail, in order to understand physical processes that produce escaping LyC photons. In TOL1247 it was found that bulk of the LyC photons emerges from two massive stellar clusters located in the central region of the galaxy.[11] The escape is supported by the structure of the interstellar medium of the galaxy, which appears to be clumpy and highly ionized. Although Puschnig et al. (2017) could verify that LyC indeed escapes from TOL1247, their new spectroscopic data obtained with the Cosmic Origins Spectrograph of the Hubble Space Telescope indicates a relatively low number of escaping LyC photons (only 1.5% escape fraction).[11] Thus, if galaxies in the early universe were similar to TOL1247, they would indeed contribute to reionization
, but not sufficiently to explain the second major phase-change in the universe.

See also

References

  1. ^
    S2CID 118476876
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  2. ^ a b c d U. Christoffer Fremling (6 June 2013). "Leakage of ionizing radiation from the nearby galaxy Tololo 1247-232" (PDF). The University of Stockholm. pp. 1–117. Retrieved 4 February 2015.
  3. doi:10.1086/190397
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  4. ^
    PMID 26762452
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  5. S2CID 3033749
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  6. doi:10.1093/mnras/stw1205
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  7. ^
    Bibcode:1985RMxAA..11...91M
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  8. Bibcode:1991A&AS...91..285T
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  9. S2CID 206557611
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  10. S2CID 1386346
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  11. ^
    doi:10.1093/mnras/stx951
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