Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
Aug 1998
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1998a%26a...336..823m&link_type=abstract
Astronomy and Astrophysics, v.336, p.823-828 (1998)
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
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Galaxies: Individual: Ngc 7469, Galaxies: Seyfert, Galaxies: Nuclei, Infrared: Galaxies
Scientific paper
The use of adaptive optics has allowed to reach in the infrared an angular resolution around 0.35'', allowing to study the temperature, mass and distribution of the dust component within the 400 pc radius central region of \ngc. We have obtained L and L' band images which show an unresolved core (r<55 pc) embedded in an extended emission component. Not to mention the ring of star formation, known to be present at r\ap 1.5'', which cannot be studied from this data set because of its quite low surface brightness and will not be discussed here. We find that about 55% of the 3.5 and 3.8\mic\ flux across the 1.4''x1.4'' central region arises from the unresolved core. The hot and warm dust grain density in the extended component follows an r(-1.5) law, and the dust temperature ranges from 900 K (r\ap 130 pc) to \ap 300 K (r\ap 400 pc). The mass of hot (T=900 K) dust within a r\ap 200 pc central region is \ap 0.05 Msun and it accounts for 36% of the 2.2\mic\ emission in this region. These results are in good agreement with a composite model of active nucleus including a parsec scale dusty torus surrounded by an extended hot dust region located in the NLR and heated by the central engine. Based on observations collected at the European Southern Observatory, La Silla, Chile.
Alloin Danielle
Marco Olivier
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