Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astronomy
Scientific paper
Dec 1993
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1993aas...18311902s&link_type=abstract
American Astronomical Society, 183rd AAS Meeting, #119.02D; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 25, p.1471
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astronomy
Scientific paper
We have used high resolution infrared spectroscopy to measure the mass in the nuclear regions of five very luminous infrared galaxies: NGC 1614, NGC 3690, IC 694, NGC 6240, and Zw 475.056. The masses were determined from the kinematics of the stellar component. We used FSpec at the Steward Observatory 2.3 m telescope to observe the 2.3 microns CO bandhead at a resolution of 3500. Our methods were validated by observations of M 31, whose nuclear kinematics are well understood. We are testing whether the H2 masses derived from mm CO observations are realistic by comparing them to our dynamical masses. We have are using the mass to bolometric luminosity ratio to determine if enough mass is present to allow a stellar origin for all of the luminosity. At least some of the galaxies we observed may be powered entirely by a starburst. The strength of the CO bands suggest that the K band flux is dominated by stars, not hot dust or an AGN. LMS thanks NASA for support through the Graduate Student Researchers Program. FSpec is supported by NSF grant AST-9116442.
Rieke Marcia J.
Shier Lisa Marie
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