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We present near-infrared interferometric data on the Seyfert 2 galaxy NGC 1068, obtained with the GRAVITY instrument on the European Southern Observatory Very Large Telescope Interferometer. The extensive baseline coverage from 5 to 60…

The central region of the Seyfert 2 galaxy NGC 1068 is imaged in the mid infrared (MIR) using the Mid-Infrared Test Observation System on the 8.2 m Subaru Telescope. The oversampling pixel scale associated with shift-and-add method shows…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Daigo Tomono , Yoshiyuki Doi , Tomonori Usuda , Tetsuo Nishimura

We present new interferometer observations of the 12CO(1-0) and 12CO(2-1) line emission of NGC 1068 with a resolution of 0.7''. The molecular gas in the inner 5'' is resolved into a ring with two bright knots east and west of the nuclear…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 E. Schinnerer , A. Eckart , L. J. Tacconi , R. Genzel , D. Downes

We present high angular resolution (0.5-2.0") observations of the mm continuum and the 12CO(J=3-2), 13CO(J=3-2), 13CO(J=2-1), C18O(J=2-1), HCN(J=3-2), HCO+(J=4-3) and HCO+(J=3-2) line emission in the circumnuclear disk (r=100pc) of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 M. Krips , S. Martin , A. Eckart , R. Neri , S. Garcia-Burillo , S. Matsushita , A. Peck , I. Stoklasova , G. Petitpas , A. Usero , F. Combes , E. Schinnerer , L. Humphreys , A. J. Baker

We present new interferometric data obtained with MIDI (MID infrared Interferometric instrument) for the Seyfert II galaxy NGC 1068, with an extensive coverage of sixteen uv points. These observations resolve the nuclear mid-infrared…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2009-11-13 David Raban , Walter Jaffe , Huub Röttgering , Klaus Meisenheimer , Konrad R. W. Tristram

We present the results of a series of observations of the near- and mid-infrared polarisation properties of the Seyfert 2 galaxy NGC1068. Our data agree well with previously published results in showing the need for a separate polarisation…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-03-10 S. L. Lumsden , T. J. T. Moore , C. Smith , T. Fujiyoshi , J. Bland-Hawthorn , M. J. Ward

To understand the relation between the small "obscuring torus" and dusty structures at larger scales (5-10 pc) in NGC 1068, we use ESO's Mid-Infrared Interferometer (MIDI) with the 1.8 m Auxiliary Telescopes to achieve the necessary spatial…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2014-05-14 N. López-Gonzaga , W. Jaffe , L. Burtscher , K. R. W. Tristram , K. Meisenheimer

We present a new analysis of the very first mid-infrared N-band long-baseline interferometric observations of an extragalactic source: the nucleus of the Seyfert 2 galaxy NGC 1068, obtained with MIDI (Mid-InfrareD Interferometer), the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 A. Poncelet , G. Perrin , H. Sol

Sub-arcsecond IRAM Plateau de Bure mm-interferometric observations of the 12CO (2-1) line emission in the Seyfert~1 NGC 3227 and the Seyfert~2 NGC 1068 have revealed complex kinematic systems in the inner 100 pc to 300 pc that are not…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 E. Schinnerer , A. Eckart , L. J. Tacconi

High-energy neutrinos are detected by the IceCube Observatory in the direction of NGC 1068, the archetypical type II Seyfert galaxy. The neutrino flux, surprisingly, is more than an order of magnitude higher than the $\gamma$-ray upper…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-10-03 Ke Fang , Enrique Lopez Rodriguez , Francis Halzen , John S. Gallagher

We describe ISO and BIMA observations of the z=0.04 Seyfert 1 ring galaxy NGC985 which suggest close parallels with some quasar host galaxies. NGC985 contains two closely spaced nuclei embedded in an R$^{1/4}$--law stellar bulge and an…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 P. N. Appleton , V. Charmandaris , Y. Gao , F. Combes , F. Ghigo , C. Horellou , I. F. Mirabel

We present 12.8 microns images of the core of NGC 1068 obtained with the BURST mode of the VLT/VISIR. We trace structures under the diffraction limit of one UT and we investigate the link between dust in the vicinity of the central engine…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 A. Poncelet , C. Doucet , G. Perrin , H. Sol , P. O. Lagage

An examination of the positions and redshifts of the compact, QSO-like objects reported near the Seyfert 2 galaxy NGC 1068 has revealed many relationships that suggest strongly that the objects have been ejected from the galaxy. Although…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 M. B. Bell

We performed stellar population synthesis on the nuclear and extended regions of NGC 1068 by means of near-infrared spectroscopy to disentangle their spectral energy distribution components. This is the first time that such a technique is…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 Lucimara Martins , Rogério Riffel , Alberto Rodríguez-Ardila , Ruth Gruenwald , Ronaldo de Souza

We report sub arc-second resolution X-ray imaging-spectroscopy of the archetypal type 2 Seyfert galaxy NGC 1068 with the Chandra X-ray Observatory. The observations reveal the detailed structure and spectra of the 13 kpc-extent nebulosity…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 A. J. Young , A. S. Wilson , P. L. Shopbell

The first complete far-infrared spectrum (43-197um) of the Seyfert 2 galaxy NGC 1068 as observed with the LWS onboard ISO is reported. In addition to the expected ionic fine structure emission lines, the OH rotational lines at 79, 119 and…

The ISO-SWS 2.5-45 um infrared spectroscopic observations of the nucleus of the Seyfert 2 galaxy NGC 1068 (see companion paper) are combined with a compilation of UV to IR narrow emission line data to determine the spectral energy…

The central region of NGC 1068 is one of the closest and most studied Active Galactic Nucleus. It is known to be of type 2, meaning that its accretion disk is obscured by a large amount of dust and gas. The main properties of the obscuring…

The results of high-resolution spectral-line observations of dense molecular gas are presented towards the nuclear region of the type 2 Seyfert galaxy NGC1068. MERLIN observations of the 22 GHz H2O maser were made for imaging the known…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-01-03 Yoshiaki Hagiwara , Willem A. Baan , Masatoshi Imanishi , Philip Diamond

We present the results of the latest NuSTAR monitoring campaign of the Compton-thick Seyfert 2 galaxy NGC 1068, composed of four $\sim$50 ks observations performed between July 2017 and February 2018 to search for flux and spectral…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-01-17 A. Zaino , S. Bianchi , A. Marinucci , G. Matt , F. E. Bauer , W. N. Brandt , P. Gandhi , M. Guainazzi , K. Iwasawa , S. Puccetti , C. Ricci , D. J. Walton
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