Bubbles, Bow-Shocks, and Bullets over Broad-lines: Three Ionized Outflows Resolved with HST

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Jun 2002

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2002rmxac..13..170c&link_type=abstract

Emission Lines from Jet Flows, Isla Mujeres, Q.R., México, November 13-17, 2000 (Eds. W. J. Henney, W. Steffen, A. C. Raga, and

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Galaxies: Active, Galaxies: Jets, Galaxies: Kinematics And Dynamics, Hydrodynamics, Ism: Jets And Outflows

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HST images and spectra of high-velocity outflows from three AGN: (1) Show 5 arcsec -long bow shock/Mach disk complexes at the ends of the active radio jet in NGC 4258. We argue that the jet has precessed to its current orientation seen at VLBI-scales. (2) Fully resolve [O III]5007Å and H beta line profiles in the NLR of NGC 1068, and show compact knots with blueshifted radial velocities >3100 km s-1 relative to ambient gas. The knots lie several arcseconds outside the nucleus, on and away from the radio jet, and are kinematically contiguous with brighter clouds moving 200-800 km s-1 relative to systemic. We argue that the knots are ablata streams undergoing radiative acceleration from jet-agitated, massive clouds. They are good candidates for ``intrinsic UV absorbers" seen in other AGN . (3) Resolve many of the filaments that form the 1 kpc-diameter superbubble of NGC 3079. Combining with ground-based Fabry-Perot spectra, we constrain gas densities, gas filling factors, and space velocities, thereby bounding the total ionized mass, momentum, and KE of this wide-angle outflow. The broadest emission line profiles lie at the base of the superbubble, and coincide with the axis of the VLBI-scale jet. However, the bulk of the superbubble, by its resemblance to hydro simulations and by its pattern of magnetic fields, appears to be inflated by a nuclear wind of mechanical luminosity 10^43 erg s-1.

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