3D NIR spectroscopy at subarcsecond resolution

Details 3D NIR spectroscopy at subarcsecond resolution 3D NIR spectroscopy at subarcsecond resolution

Jan 2006

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2006newar..49..547d&link_type=abstract

New Astronomy Reviews, Volume 49, Issue 10-12, p. 547-552.

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

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We present a scientific case approached through high quality 3D NIR spectroscopy performed with CIRPASS, attached to the Gemini South telescope. A binary mass concentration at the nucleus of the galaxy M 83 was suggested by Thatte et al. [A&A 364 (2000) L47] and Mast et al. [BAAA 45 (2002) 98. Astroph#0505264] determined the possible position of the hidden secondary mass concentration with 2D H-alpha kinematics. The preliminary results of the NIR study presented here are based in almost 1500 spectra centered in the wavelength 1.3 μm, with a spectral resolving power of 3200. They allow us to unveil, with 0.36″ (6.4 pc) sampling and subarcsecond resolution, the velocity field in a region of 13″ × 9″ around the optical nucleus. We confirm that the optical nucleus is not located at the most important center of symmetry of the ionized gas velocity field. The largest black hole that could fit to the circular motion in this kinematic center should have a mass not larger than 3 × 106(sin i)-1 M&sun; solar masses.

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