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Aug 2006
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Cosmic Particle Acceleration, 26th meeting of the IAU, Joint Discussion 1, 16-17 August, 2006, Prague, Czech Republic, JD01, #31
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The narrow line regions of active galaxies have the potential to provide key information about the nature of the central energy sources, the triggering and fueling of the activity, and the dynamical and/or chemical evolution of the narrow line region (NLR). However, if we are to use them in this way, it is crucial to understand the dominant physical mechanism of emission line region. Since Dopita et al.1995,1996 suggested that their radiative shock model is capable of explaining to some extent the spectrum of Seyfert 2 galaxies, detailed observations of individual NLR or extended narrow line region (ENLR) have been performed to clarify the actual ionization mechanism for individual object. It is probably fair to say that at present time, although individual studies may favor gas models photoionized by nonthermal power law photons or other ionization scenario, no clear-cut answer has yet emerged. For the purpose of investigating the importance of shock ionization around NLR we performed optical long-slit spectroscopic observation of Seyfert 2 galaxy, NGC7319, using Subaru telescope during guaranteed time of Faint Object Camera And Spectrograph (FOCAS). We confirmed that NGC7319 has the ENLR (~4kpc) with relatively good alignment with radio components and found the distribution of observed regions in the "diagnostic diagrams"(line ratio versus line ratio plot) are approximately consistent with radiative shock ionization models which assumed about shock front velocity of 500km/s. In addition we discovered the clear anti-corelation between the indicators of gas excitation ([OIII]5007/ Hbeta and [SII](6716+6731)/Halpha) and velocity dispersion over whole observed ENLR. Any other photoionization model could not explain gas kinematics-excitation relation and this anti-corelation is strong evidence of radiative shock ionization, which is probably induced by interaction between jet plasma and NLR clouds. The evidence of the importance of jet-induced shock ionization even for radio quiet active galaxy (radio loudness ~ 0.4) suggests the generally accepted picture of active galactic nuclei can change for other many radio loud and partially radio quiet active galaxies.
Aoki K. A.
Hashimoto T. H.
Iye M. I.
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