The Ringberg Standards for NGC 1068

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Feb 1997

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1997ap%26ss.248....9b&link_type=abstract

Astrophysics and Space Science, Volume 248, Issue 1-2, pp. 9-19

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

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At the end of three days' spirited discussion of the type 2 Seyfert galaxy NGC 1068, what do we think we understand about this object? New observations -- particularly in the infrared and radio -- are helping to resolve old problems, while drawing attention to new ones. It appears that NGC 1068 is a relatively normal spiral galaxy in which large-scale gravitational disturbances are funneling matter into the nucleus. A collimated outflow disturbs the interstellar medium out to kiloparsec scales, but the nucleus itself is hidden behind an opaque screen. Radio observations have now pierced the screen, and suggest that at the center of it all, a 10-20 million solar mass black hole is accreting at close to its Eddington limit.

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