Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2003-04-05
Astron.J. 126 (2003) 143
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
23 pages, 7 figures, A.J. in press
Scientific paper
10.1086/375647
Images at 12.5 microns of nuclei of three nearby Seyfert galaxies -- NGC 1275, NGC 4151 and NGC 7469 -- have been obtained with the Keck 10-m Telescope. NGC 7469 is resolved and deconvolution delineates a structure <0.04"x0.08" or <13x26 pc at a position angle of 135deg. From a comparison with structure seen at millimeter wavelengths, this structure is interpreted as a disk aligned with the molecular gas in the central few hundred parsecs of the galaxy. NGC 1275 and NGC 4151 are not resolved; limits on the sizes of these nuclei are 0.08" and 0.16", corresponding to physical spatial scales of 28 and 10 pc. The lower limits to the brightness temperatures implied by these size limits and the measured flux densities are within ~50K of the 12 micron to 25 micron color temperatures of these systems as inferred from IRAS observations. The angular size limits are within a factor of 2.5 of the sizes required to spatially resolve thermal emission from dust heated by a central luminosity source. These sizes preclude significant contributions to the nuclear infrared emission from star forming regions.
Armus Lee
Bock James Joseph
Egami Eiichi E.
Marsh Ken
Matthews Keith
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