Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
1997-06-20
Astrophys.Space Sci.248:33-42,1997
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
10 pages, LaTeX, uses crckapb.sty, 10 postscript figures, to appear in Proceedings of the NGC 1068 Workshop, eds. Gallimore an
Scientific paper
10.1023/A:1000524016349
We present the kinematics of the ionized gas over the inner 140 arcsec (10 kpc) of NGC 1068 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 HII 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 hydro-dynamical 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.
Bland-Hawthorn Jonathan
Cecil Gerald
Dehnen Walter
Quirrenbach Andreas
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