The detection of stellar velocity dispersion drops in the central regions of five isolated Seyfert spirals

Details The detection of stellar velocity dispersion drops in the central regions of five isolated Seyfert spirals The detection of stellar velocity dispersion drops in the central regions of five isolated Seyfert spirals

2003-06-24

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0306497v1

Astron.Astrophys.409:459-468,2003

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

A&A accepted for publication

Scientific paper

10.1051/0004-6361:20031059

We analyze the kinematics of the central regions of five isolated Seyfert spiral galaxies from the DEGAS sample (four with new data presented in this paper, IC184, UGC3223, NGC2639, NGC6814, and NGC6951 from our previous data), by using long slit spectroscopy in the CaII triplet range (at ~ 8600 A) obtained with a 4m-class telescope. A drop of the velocity dispersions in the innermost 1-3 arcsec is observed in four of them, and hinted in the remaining galaxy (NGC6814). The available HST images for our sample together with another nine galaxies with reported velocity dispersion drops, are also used to investigate the presence of morphological inner structures at the scales of the kinematical drops. Evidence for disk-like shapes is found in 12 out of the 14 cases. The only exceptions are NGC6814 and NGC6951. Existing N-body simulations including stars, gas and star formation predict that such a drop is most probably due to a young stellar population born from dynamically cold gas accreted in a circumnuclear disk formed during an episode of central gas accretion driven by a bar. The equivalent widths of the Calcium triplet lines for our 5 galaxies have been measured. Even if the profiles could be formally consistent with constant EW(CaT) values, they seem to indicate the presence of a local maximum in the regions corresponding spatially to the drops; if confirmed, this would imply the presence of a different stellar population, whose properties could help constraining the models.

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