Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2005-07-18
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
16 pages, 17 figures, accepted by A&A, high resolution version of the paper available at <http://hera.ph1.uni-koeln.de/~krips/
Scientific paper
10.1051/0004-6361:20041731
We present the first interferometric observations of CO(1-0) and CO(2-1) line emission from the warped LINER NGC3718, obtained with the IRAM PdBI. This L1.9 galaxy has a prominent dust lane and on kpc scales, a strongly warped atomic and molecular gas disk. The molecular gas is closely associated with the dust lane across the nucleus and its kinematic center is consistent with the mm continuum AGN. A comparison of our interferometric mosaic data, which fully cover the ~9kpc warped disk, with a previously obtained IRAM 30m single dish CO(1-0) map shows that the molecular gas distribution in the disk is heavily resolved by the PdBI map. After applying a short-spacing correction with the IRAM 30m data, we find in total six main source components within the dust lane: one associated with the nucleus, four symmetrically positioned on either side at galactocentric distances of about 1.3kpc and 4.0kpc from the center, and a sixth on the western side at ~3kpc with only a very weak eastern counterpart. In the framework of a kinematic model using tilted rings, we interpret the five symmetric source components as locations of strong orbital crowding. We further find indications that the warp appears not only on kpc scales, but continues down to 250pc. Besides the sixth feature on the western side, the lower flux of the eastern components compared to the western ones indicates an intrinsic large scale asymmetry in NGC3718 that cannot be explained by the warp. Indications for a small scale asymmetry are also seen in the central 600pc. These asymmetries might be evidence for a tidal interaction with a companion galaxy (large scales) and gas accretion onto the nucleus (small scales). Our study of NGC3718 is part of the NUGA project that aims at investigating the different processes of gas accretion onto AGN.
Baker Andrew Jordan
Boone Frederic
Combes François
Eckart Andreas
Englmaier P. P.
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