Kinematics and Mass Modelling of NGC 1068 |
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Authors: | Walter Dehnen Jonathan Bland-Hawthorn Andreas Quirrenbach Gerald N Cecil |
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Institution: | (1) Theoretical Physics, Oxford;(2) Anglo-Australian Observatory, Australia;(3) Max-Planck-Institut für Extraterrestrische Physik, Germany;(4) University of North Carolina, USA |
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Abstract: | We present the kinematics of the ionized gas over the inner 140″ (10 kpc) from observations with the HIFI Fabry-Perot interferometer.
There is clear evidence for density wave streaming and bar-driven streaming across the field, with bi-symmetric arms that
penetrate to within 200 pc of the nucleus. CO maps show linear structures along (although slightly offset from) the bar consistent
with a strong shock. Along the spiral arms which encircle the bar, the H II regions lie downstream of the CO gas in the rest
frame of the bar, as do the dust lanes, only if the gas outruns the stellar bar. As a first step towards understanding the
details of the gas kinematics, and attempting to determine the mass inflow rate towards the nucleus, we build a mass model
for the central disk constrained by near-infrared images. We plan to use this model as gravitational background potential
for hydrodynamical simulations of the gas response to the bar. Comparing these with the data presented should enable us to
constrain various quantities such as pattern speed, stellar mass-to-light ratio, central mass concentration, and gas fueling
rate.
This revised version was published online in July 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date. |
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