NGC 7469 as seen by MEGARA: new results from high-resolution IFU spectroscopy

Autor: Isabel Márquez, Laura Hermosa-Muñoz, África Castillo-Morales, R. Cedazo, Josefa Masegosa, Sergio Pascual, Eleazar R. Carrasco, J. Iglesias, M. L. García-Vargas, A. Gil de Paz, P. Gómez-Alvarez, Nicolás Cardiel, I. Martínez-Delgado, Sara Cazzoli, Jesús Gallego, Ana Pérez-Calpena
Přispěvatelé: Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades (España), European Commission, Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad (España)
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2020
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Zdroj: Digital.CSIC. Repositorio Institucional del CSIC
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E-Prints Complutense: Archivo Institucional de la UCM
Universidad Complutense de Madrid
E-Prints Complutense. Archivo Institucional de la UCM
Popis: We present our analysis of high-resolution (R similar to 20 000) GTC/MEGARA integral-field unit spectroscopic observations, obtained during the commissioning run, in the inner region (12.5 arcsec x 11.3 arcsec) of the active galaxy NGC7469, at spatial scales of 0.62 arcsec. We explore the kinematics, dynamics, ionization mechanisms, and oxygen abundances of the ionized gas, by modelling the H alpha-[N II] emission lines at high signal-to-noise (> 15) with multiple Gaussian components. MEGARA observations reveal, for the first time for NGC 7469, the presence of a very thin (20 pc) ionized gas disc supported by rotation (V/sigma = 4.3), embedded in a thicker (222 pc), dynamically hotter (V/sigma = 1.3) one. These discs nearly corotate with similar peak-to-peak velocities (163 versus 137 km s(-1)), but with different average velocity dispersion (38 +/- 1 versus 108 +/- 4 km s(-1)). The kinematics of both discs could be possibly perturbed by star-forming regions. We interpret the morphology and the kinematics of a third (broader) component (sigma > 250 km s(-1)) as suggestive of the presence of non-rotational turbulent motions possibly associated either to an outflow or to the lense. For the narrow component, the [N II]/H alpha ratios point to the star-formation as the dominant mechanism of ionization, being consistent with ionization from shocks in the case of the intermediate component. All components have roughly solar metallicity. In the nuclear region of NGC7469, at r
This paper is based on observations made with the Gran Telescopio Canarias (GTC), installed in the Spanish Observatorio del Roque de los Muchachos of the Instituto de Astrof ' isica de Canarias, in the island of La Palma. This work is based on data obtained with MEGARA instrument, funded by European Regional Development Funds (ERDF), trough Programa Operativo Canarias FEDER 2014-2020. SC, IM, JM, and LHM acknowledge financial support by the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness (MEC) under grant no. AYA2016-76682-C3. We also acknowledge financial support from the State Agency for Research of the Spanish MCIU through the `Center of Excellence Severo Ochoa' award to the Instituto de Astrof ' isica de Andaluc ' ia (SEV-2017-0709). AGdP, JG, ACM, SP, andNCacknowledge financial support from the Spanish MEC under grant no. AYA2016-75808-R. This research has made use of the NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database (NED), which is operated by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, under contract with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. We acknowledge the usage of the HyperLeda database (http://leda.univ-lyon1.fr). This paper made use of the plotting package JMAPLOT, developed by Jesus Maiz-Apellaniz available at: http://jmaiz.iaa.es/software/jmaplot/current/html/jmaplot overview.html. The authors acknowledge the anonymous referee for her/his instructive comments that helped to improve the presentation of this paper. SC thanks R. Amorin and R. Schodel for their useful comments.
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