Kinematics and excitation of the nuclear spiral in the active galaxy Arp 102B
| Autor: | Preeti Kharb, Andrew Robinson, Rogemar A. Riffel, Guilherme S. Couto, Thaisa Storchi-Bergmann, David J. Axon |
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| Rok vydání: | 2013 |
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Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
Active galactic nucleus Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena media_common.quotation_subject Bent molecular geometry FOS: Physical sciences Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics Astrophysics 01 natural sciences law.invention Telescope Integral field spectrograph law 0103 physical sciences Astrophysics::Solar and Stellar Astrophysics 010306 general physics 010303 astronomy & astrophysics Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics media_common Physics Astronomy Astronomy and Astrophysics Galaxy Redshift Space and Planetary Science Sky Outflow Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics |
| Zdroj: | Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 435:2982-3000 |
| ISSN: | 1365-2966 0035-8711 |
| Popis: | We present a two-dimensional analysis of the gaseous excitation and kinematics of the inner 2.5 x 1.7 kpc^2 of the LINER/Seyfert 1 galaxy Arp 102B, from optical spectra obtained with the GMOS integral field spectrograph on the Gemini North telescope at a spatial resolution of 250 pc. Emission-line flux maps show the same two-armed nuclear spiral we have discovered in previous observations with the HST-ACS camera. One arm reaches 1 kpc to the east and the other 500 pc to the west, with a 8.4 GHz VLA bent radio jet correlating with the former. The gas density is highest (500 - 900 cm^(-3)) at the nucleus and in the northern border of the east arm, at a region where the radio jet seems to be deflected. Channel maps show blueshifts but also some redshifts at the eastern arm and jet location which can be interpreted as originated in the front and back walls of an outflow pushed by the radio jet, suggesting also that the outflow is launched close to the plane of the sky. We estimate a mass outflow rate along the east arm of 0.26 - 0.32 Msun yr^(-1) (depending on the assumed outflow geometry), which is between one and two orders of magnitude higher than the mass accretion rate to the active nucleus, implying that there is mass-loading of the nuclear outflow from circumnuclear gas. The power of this outflow is 0.06 - 0.3%Lbol. We propose a scenario in which gas has been recently captured by Arp 102B in an interaction with Arp 102A, settling in a disk rotating around the nucleus of Arp 102B and triggering its nuclear activity. A nuclear jet is pushing the circumnuclear gas, giving origin to the nuclear arms. A blueshifted emitting gas knot is observed at 300 pc south-east from the nucleus and can be interpreted as another (more compact) outflow, with a possible counterpart to the north-west. 20 pages, 13 figures, 1 table; accepted by MNRAS |
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