Bipolar Nuclear Outflow from the Seyfert 1 Galaxy NGC 5548

Details Bipolar Nuclear Outflow from the Seyfert 1 Galaxy NGC 5548 Bipolar Nuclear Outflow from the Seyfert 1 Galaxy NGC 5548

Dec 1994

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1994aas...18510807w&link_type=abstract

American Astronomical Society, 185th AAS Meeting, #108.07; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 26, p.1501

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The S0/Sa galaxy NGC 5548 hosts a Seyfert 1 nucleus. Echo mapping of its broad optical-line-emitting region yields a radial extent R <~ 20 light days = (1)/(60) pc, or 70 h microarcseonds for H_0 = 100 h km s(-1) Mpc(-1) (Peterson 1993). Using data from larger radii, what boundary conditions can be imposed on the geometry and velocity field of the broad line region? R <~ 1400 h(-1) pc: Bipolar radio continuum lobes straddle a central radio component in NGC 5548. These lobes, which emit optically-thin synchrotron radiation with a 4-cm power of 10(21) h(-2) W Hz(-1) , trace bipolar outflow from the nucleus (Wilson & Ulvestad 1982; Wrobel 1994). R <~ 720 h(-1) pc: The radio lobes of NGC 5548 share the elongation position angle of the [OIII] narrow-line gas, with the broadest known line widths occuring NW of the nucleus at these radii (Wilson et al. 1989). This hints that some narrow-line gas receives additional mechanical energy from the bipolar outflow feeding the radio lobes, a situation analogous to the narrow-line superbubble in NGC 3079 (Veilleux et al. 1994). R <~ 10 h(-1) pc: Blueshifted absorption in the broad CIV lines proves that some gas is flowing out of the nucleus of NGC 5548, with observed speeds of 1200 km s(-1) relative to systemic (Shull & Sachs 1993). This absorption line outflow may have, or be able to achieve, a bipolar shape via the disk-focusing scheme proposed for NGC 3079 (Duric & Seaquist 1988; Veilleux et al. 1994).

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