Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics – Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2009-11-30
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics
6 pages, 3 figures, to appear in the proceedings of the IAU General Assembly 2009, Rio de Janeiro, S267 Co-evolution of Centra
Scientific paper
Recently, high resolution observations with the help of the near-infrared adaptive optics integral field spectrograph SINFONI at the VLT proved the existence of massive and young nuclear star clusters in the centres of a sample of Seyfert galaxies. With the help of high resolution hydrodynamical simulations with the PLUTO-code, we follow the evolution of such clusters, especially focusing on mass and energy feedback from young stars. This leads to a filamentary inflow of gas on large scales (tens of parsec), whereas a turbulent and very dense disc builds up on the parsec scale. Here, we concentrate on the long-term evolution of the nuclear disc in NGC 1068 with the help of an effective viscous disc model, using the mass input from the large scale simulations and accounting for star formation in the disc. This two-stage modelling enables us to connect the tens of parsec scale region (observable with SINFONI) with the parsec scale environment (MIDI observations). At the current age of the nuclear star cluster, our simulations predict disc sizes of the order of 0.8 to 0.9 pc, gas masses of 1.0e6 Msun and mass transfer rates through the inner boundary of 0.025 Msun/yr in good agreement with values derived from observations.
Burkert Andreas
Camenzind Max
Davies Richard I.
Krause Marita
Meisenheimer Klaus
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