Broad-band and Hα surface photometry of the central regions of nearby active galaxies - I. Observations

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Feb 2000

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2000mnras.312....2s&link_type=abstract

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 312, Issue 1, pp. 2-32.

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

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Galaxies: Active, Galaxies: Fundamental Parameters, Galaxies: Photometry

Scientific paper

Broad-band V, R and I and narrow-band Hα CCD surface photometry of a sample of 24 active and three normal nearby galaxies is presented, in order to study their morphological and structural properties. This first paper presents the observations, data reduction and processing techniques used; the main characteristics of the central regions of the sample galaxies are derived from broad-band and Hα images; broad-band surface brightness and colour profiles are presented; based on the inspection of individual images and the examination of the radial variation of ellipticity and polar angle, the morphological class of the sample objects is revised: several objects previously classified as non-barred or unclassified are found to be barred galaxies. A high fraction (~71per cent) of the objects that present any kind of nuclear activity are barred. This proportion is even higher (~87per cent) if only Seyfert galaxies are considered. This result can reinforce the clues about the connection between bars and nuclear activity as a fuelling mechanism that can trigger and sustain nuclear activity.

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