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哈勃空间望远镜对低光度活动星系核附近窄线区的光谱观测

Hubble Space Telescope Spectroscopic Observations of the Narrow-Line Region in Nearby Low-Luminosity Active Galactic Nuclei

Jonelle L. Walsh, Aaron J. Barth, Luis C. Ho, Alexei V. Filippenko, Hans-Walter Rix, Joseph C. Shields, Marc Sarzi, Wallace L. W. Sargent

摘要:

本文介绍了14个邻近低光度活动星系核的STIS观测结果,其中包括13个LINER和1个Seyfert,它们是在以星系核为中心的多个平行狭缝位置拍摄的,覆盖了H-α光谱区。对于每个星系,我们测量发射线的速度,线宽和强度,绘制出内部窄线区域的结构。速度场之间存在着广泛的差异:在少数星系中,气体明显处于盘状旋转中,而在其他星系中,气体运动学出现混乱或由具有多个速度分量的径向流主导。[S II]线比率表明气体密度的径向分层,在大多数1型物体中,内部10-20 pc内急剧增加。我们研究如何[N II] 6583线宽度变化作为一个函数的孔径大小在一个范围内的空间尺度,从规模相当于黑洞的影响范围的尺度为主的宿主星系的隆起。对于大多数星系的样本中,我们发现,发射线速度色散是最大的黑洞的引力影响范围内,并减少与增加孔径大小的值类似的鼓包恒星速度色散测量地面孔径。未来的动力学模型,以确定黑洞质量的一些对象在这个样本可能是值得的,虽然混乱的运动将限制质量测量的准确性。

英文摘要:

(Abridged) We present STIS observations of 14 nearby low-luminosity active galactic nuclei, including 13 LINERs and 1 Seyfert, taken at multiple parallel slit positions centered on the galaxy nuclei and covering the H-alpha spectral region. For each galaxy, we measure the emission-line velocities, line widths, and strengths, to map out the inner narrow-line region structure. There is a wide diversity among the velocity fields: in a few galaxies the gas is clearly in disk-like rotation, while in other galaxies the gas kinematics appear chaotic or are dominated by radial flows with multiple velocity components. The [S II] line ratio indicates a radial stratification in gas density, with a sharp increase within the inner 10-20 pc, in the majority of the Type 1 objects. We examine how the [N II] 6583 line width varies as a function of aperture size over a range of spatial scales, extending from scales comparable to the black hole's sphere of influence to scales dominated by the host galaxy's bulge. For most galaxies in the sample, we find that the emission-line velocity dispersion is largest within the black hole's gravitational sphere of influence, and decreases with increasing aperture size toward values similar to the bulge stellar velocity dispersion measured within ground-based apertures. Future dynamical modeling in order to determine black hole masses for a few objects in this sample may be worthwhile, although disorganized motion will limit the accuracy of the mass measurements.

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