The spatially extended LINERs NGC 4579 and 6500

Details The spatially extended LINERs NGC 4579 and 6500 The spatially extended LINERs NGC 4579 and 6500

Aug 1996

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1996mnras.281.1105g&link_type=abstract

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 281, Issue 4, pp. 1105-1123.

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

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Galaxies: Active, Galaxies: Individual: Ngc 4579, Galaxies: Individual: Ngc 6500, Galaxies: Nuclei

Scientific paper

Narrow-band Hα+[NII] imaging and long-slit spectroscopy at intermediate resolution from [NeV] lambda3426 to [SIII] lambda9532 of the LINER galaxies NGC 4579 and 6500 are analysed. Both galaxies show circumnuclear emission, extending 2kpc from the nucleus of NGC 4579 in a loop structure and 1 kpc from the nucleus of NGC 6500 in a bright knot to the north-east, and as diffuse emission to the east. The nuclei and the circumnuclear regions in both galaxies show strong low-ionization lines. The nuclear line ratios [NII] lambda6584/Hα, [OI] lambda6300/Hα and [OII] lambda3727/[OIII] lambda5007 are higher than 0.6, 0.3 and 1, respectively, fitting the definition criteria of a LINER. The circumnuclear gas is kinematically perturbed, showing radial motions; in particular, in NGC 6500 it is compatible with an outflow wind which interacts with the higher density gas in the plane of the galaxy. Comparison of the observed line ratios, particularly [SIII]/[SII] and [OII] lambda7325/Hα, with those of photoionization and shock heating models, indicates that the main excitation mechanism in the extended emission and in the nuclei is due to shocks.

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