Aperture Synthesis CO(J=1-0) Observations and Near-Infrared Photometry of the Non-Barred Seyfert Galaxy NGC 5033

Details Aperture Synthesis CO(J=1-0) Observations and Near-Infrared Photometry of the Non-Barred Seyfert Galaxy NGC 5033 Aperture Synthesis CO(J=1-0) Observations and Near-Infrared Photometry of the Non-Barred Seyfert Galaxy NGC 5033

2003-01-21

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0301417v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

23 pages, 14 figures, accepted for publication in PASJ. For high resolution figures see http://www.nro.nao.ac.jp/~f0151kk/n503

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Aperture synthesis observations of CO(J=1-0) emission and near-infrared broad-band photometry of the non-barred Seyfert galaxy NGC 5033 (D = 18.7 Mpc) were performed. Our 3".9 x 3".6 resolution CO observations reveal a perturbed distribution and the kinematics of molecular gas in the center of NGC 5033; we find the characteristic gaseous features that are widely observed in barred spiral galaxies, such as two bright CO peaks near the center (separated by ~ 3'' or 270 pc from the nucleus), two offset ridges of CO emission emanating from the CO peaks, and a CO ring (with a radius of ~ 14'' or 1.3 kpc). Double-peaked velocity profiles are also evident near the two CO peaks, implying that these CO peaks are orbit crowding zones in a barred/oval potential. Although NIR data only give an upper limit of the possible bar lengths, due to a large inclination of the NGC 5033 disk (i = 68 deg), our CO data clearly suggests the presence of a small (the semi-major axis of about 12'' - 15'' or 1.1 - 1.4 kpc) nuclear bar (or oval structure) in the center of the ``non-barred'' galaxy NGC 5033. Our results demonstrate that high-resolution CO imaging-spectroscopy is useful to search for nuclear bars, even in highly inclined systems where isophoto fitting techniques are not applicable. We find that the gas mass-to-dynamical mass ratio, M_gas/M_dyn, is small (< 1%) within a radius of 2'' or 180 pc, in contrast to starburst nuclei. This implies that the starburst does not cohabitate in the type-1.5 Seyfert nucleus of N GC 5033.

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