Observations of the neutral gas and dust in the radio galaxy 3C305

Details Observations of the neutral gas and dust in the radio galaxy 3C305 Observations of the neutral gas and dust in the radio galaxy 3C305

2002-10-10

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0210228v1

Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc. 338 (2003) 643

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

13 pages, 11 figures, accepted by MNRAS

Scientific paper

10.1046/j.1365-8711.2003.06075.x

We present MERLIN and Hubble Space Telescope (HST) observations of the central region of the nearby radio galaxy 3C305 and use them to study the gas and dust in this object. The MERLIN observations are of neutral hydrogen (HI) absorption against the strong non-thermal 20cm continuum seen towards the central 4kpc of 3C305. Our 0.2-arcsec (160 pc) resolution observations show that the HI absorption is highly localised against the south-western radio-emission with column densities 1.9x10^21/cm2. The absorption is broad and red-shifted by 130 km/s relative to the systemic velocity. The HST images in 430nm, 702nm, [OIII] 500.7nm, [FeII] 1.64um and K-band polarization are presented. Evidence is seen for coincidence of the [FeII] emission with the knot at the end of the radio jet, suggesting the presence of shocks. We compare the optical and radio images in order to investigate the relationship between the dust and neutral gas. An unresolved (0.07-arcsec) nucleus is detected in H and K and its properties are consistent with a quasar reddened by A(V)>4. We propose that the absorption arises in a region of neutral gas and dust whose structure is complex but is broadly consistent with an inclined disc encircling, but not covering, the active galactic nucleus. A comparison of the neutral gas observations and previous emission-line observations suggests that both the neutral and ionised gas are undergoing galactic rotation towards the observer in the north-east and away from the observer in the south-west. We propose that the outflow giving rise to the radio emission has a component towards the observer in the north-east and away from the observer in the south-west.

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