Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astronomy
Scientific paper
Nov 2003
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2003apj...597..860d&link_type=abstract
The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 597, Issue 2, pp. 860-869.
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astronomy
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Galaxies: Active, Galaxies: Individual: Ngc Number: Ngc 1241, Galaxies: Kinematics And Dynamics, Galaxies: Spiral, Galaxies: Structure, Methods: Numerical, Techniques: Spectroscopic
Scientific paper
We studied the spiral pattern in the inner 6.5" (1''=257 pc) central regions of the interacting active nucleus galaxy NGC 1241 using Gemini North Telescope high-resolution Ks- and J-band images and Hubble Space Telescope (HST) Paα and H- and (V+R)-band images with high resolution in the range from ~0.1" to ~0.3" along with intermediate to large-scale spectroscopy using the Multifunction Spectrograph at the Córdoba Observatory in Argentina. Our analysis of Paα emission images revealed a faint two-armed leading spiral pattern ending in the 5.6"×3.4" clumpy ring discovered by Böker and coworkers, harboring a 1.6" long barlike structure almost perpendicular to the large-scale bar of NGC 1241. When we applied two-dimensional Fourier analysis at circumnuclear scales, we found that a two-arm trailing mode was dominant in Ks- and J-band images while the (V+R)-band images showed more complex structural features with a strong one-armed trailing mode. One-dimensional Fourier analysis showed a corotation (CR) located outward from the edge of the Paα bar. Our kinematics data gave an angular speed ΩCN of 350+/-50 km s-1 kpc-1 for the trailing mode pattern. The rotation curve showed that the circumnuclear ring is located just inside the large-scale pattern inner Lindblad resonance (ILR), which has a radius of about r~1 kpc. We also found, within the uncertainties present in such measurements, that the outer Lindblad resonance (OLR) of the circumnuclear pattern is coincident with the large-scale pattern ILR, indicating a possible connection between circumnuclear and global dynamics. Nevertheless, the estimated high molecular gas fraction (>=13%) and the inner pattern high angular speed at the central region of NGC 1241 point to a nuclear bar formation via self-gravitational instability.
Carranza Gustavo
Diaz Ruben J.
Dottori Horacio
Vera-Villamizar Nelson
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