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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…

We present near-infrared emission-line flux distributions, excitation and kinematics, as well as stellar kinematics, of the inner 520x520 pc2$ of the Seyfert 2 galaxy NGC5929. The observations were performed with the Gemini's Near-Infrared…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-18 Rogemar A. Riffel , Thaisa Storchi-Bergmann , Rogerio Riffel

We present a 3-dimensional data cube of the K band continuum and the Br-gamma, H2 S(0) and S(1) lines within the central 18.5" x 13.8" (520 pc x 390 pc) region of NGC 6946. Data were obtained using OSIRIS, a near-infrared Integral Field…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 Chao-Wei Tsai , Jean L. Turner , Sara C. Beck , David S. Meier , Shelley A. Wright

We have produced radio maps, using the ATCA, of the central regions of six southern Seyfert 2 galaxies (NGC 1365, 4945, 6221, 6810, 7582, and Circinus) with circumnuclear star formation, to estimate the relative contribution of star…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Duncan Forbes , Ray Norris

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

The recent detection of high-energy neutrinos by IceCube in the direction of the nearby Seyfert/starburst galaxy NGC 1068 implies that radio-quiet active galactic nuclei can accelerate cosmic-ray ions. Dedicated multi-messenger analyses…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-09-18 Marco Ajello , Kohta Murase , Alex McDaniel

We present adaptive optics-assisted J- and K-band integral field spectroscopy of the inner 300 x 300 pc of the Seyfert 2 galaxy NGC1068. The data were obtained with the Gemini NIFS integral field unit spectrometer, which provided us with…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 X. Mazzalay , A. Rodríguez-Ardila , S. Komossa , Peter J. McGregor

(Abbr.) We present high resolution (R~20000) spectra in the blue and the far red of cicumnuclear star-forming regions (CNSFRs) in three early type spirals (NGC3351, NGC2903 and NGC3310) which have allowed the study of the kinematics of…

We present near-infrared spectra with resolutions of lambda/dlambda~1200 in the emission lines of Pa-beta, [FeII] (1.2567um), Br-gamma, and H2 v=1-0S(1) of the nuclei and circumnuclear regions of the four Seyfert 2 galaxies Mk 1066, NGC…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 R. A. Knop , L. Armus , K. Matthews , T. W. Murphy , B. T. Soifer

Preliminary results from spectrophotometric observations of Circumnuclear Star Forming Regions (CNSFRs) in the spiral galaxies NGC 2903, NGC 3351 and NGC 3504 are presented. The analysis is focused both on the determination of elemental…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Castellanos , A. I. Diaz , M. Alvarez-Alvarez , E. Terlevich

Using the ALMA archival data of both CO(6--5) line and 689 GHz continuum emission towards the archetypical Seyfert galaxy, NGC 1068, we identified a distinct continuum peak separated by 14 pc from the nuclear radio component S1 in…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-10-26 Ray S. Furuya , Yoshiaki Taniguchi

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 optical broad- and narrow-band imaging of a sample of a dozen barred galaxies. These images are analyzed in conjunction with our previously published near-infrared imaging of their central regions and with literature values for,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 J. H. Knapen , D. Perez-Ramirez , S. Laine

We investigate the star formation-AGN connection in the Seyfert 1 NGC 7469 using James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) mid-infrared spectroscopic integral field unit (IFU) data. We use the IFU data to generate maps of different emission lines…

We present an analysis of the Seyfert 2 galaxy NGC 1068 with archive data from SINFONI-VLT, in the HK bands with pixel scales of 0.1 (data set 1 - DS1) and 0.025 (DS2) arcsec. The data are revisited with a sophisticated data treatment, such…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-07-17 D. May , J. E. Steiner

The physical conditions in the inner narrow line region (NLR) of the Seyfert 2 galaxy NGC 1068 are examined using HST/STIS ultraviolet and optical spectra and photoionization models. 1) The emission-line gas in the blueshifted northeast…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Steven B. Kraemer , D. Michael Crenshaw

We present early results of the Herschel PACS (70 and 160 \micron{}) and SPIRE (250, 350, and 500 \micron{}) survey of 313 low redshift ($\rm{z} < 0.05$), ultra-hard X-ray (14--195 keV) selected AGN from the 58 month Swift/BAT catalog.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-12-08 Richard F. Mushotzky , T. Taro Shimizu , Marcio Melendez , Michael Koss

We have obtained HST FOC f/48 long-slit spectroscopy of the inner 4" of the Narrow Line Region of NGC 1068 between 3500-5400A with a spectral resolution of 1.78A/pixel. At a spatial scale of 0.0287" per pixel these data provide an order of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 D. J. Axon , A. Marconi , A. Capetti , F. D. Macchetto , E. J. Schreier , A. Robinson

We have used the Gemini Near-infrared Integral Field Spectrograph (NIFS) to map the age distribution of the stellar population in the inner 400 pc of the Seyfert 2 galaxy Mrk 1157 (NGC 591), at a spatial resolution of 35 pc. We have…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 Rogério Riffel , Rogemar André Riffel , Fabricio Ferrari , Thaisa Storchi-Bergmann

We investigated the kinematic and excitation structure of the NGC 1068 narrow-line region (NLR). We obtained profiles of several emission lines, [OIII]$\lambda$5007, H$\beta$, [OI]$\lambda$6300 and [FeVII]$\lambda$6087 at high-velocity…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-13 Shinobu Ozaki