Virgo High-Resolution CO Survey IV. Spiral-Driven Gas Dynamics in the Non-Barred Seyfert Galaxy NGC 4501

Details Virgo High-Resolution CO Survey IV. Spiral-Driven Gas Dynamics in the Non-Barred Seyfert Galaxy NGC 4501 Virgo High-Resolution CO Survey IV. Spiral-Driven Gas Dynamics in the Non-Barred Seyfert Galaxy NGC 4501

2004-06-29

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0406647v1

Publ.Astron.Soc.Jap. 56 (2004) 439-452

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

14 pages, 11 figures

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We report on high-resolution interferometer observations of the 12CO(J=1-0) emission in the central 5 kpc region of the Seyfert 2 galaxy NGC 4501. The observations were made using the Nobeyama Millimeter Array during a long-term CO line survey of Virgo spirals. The major features are: (1) a nuclear concentration with a radius of r~5'' (390 pc), which is resolved into double peaks, and (2) spiral arms which extend out from the nuclear region. The nuclear component has a mass of 1.3x10^8 Mo, which corresponds to ~3.5% of the dynamical mass, and shows a slight non-circular motion. The double peaks are separated by ~4''.7. (370 pc), and located on the root of optical spiral arms in a HST image. The gas arms are associated with the spiral dust lanes, and are linked to the central double peaks. The non-circular motions along the molecular arms indicate the fact that the gas is driven by the density wave, rather than the stochastic processes. We calculated the gas cloud orbits in a stellar spiral potential, and explained the observed CO spiral arms and non-circular motions. We suggest that the central gas condensation arises from spiral-driven gas transfer. We estimated and compared the effect of two possible mechanisms of angular-momentum transfer: galactic shock, and gravitational torques. We discuss that the galactic shock is dominant.

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