Spatial Resolution of High-Velocity Filaments in the Narrow-Line Region of NGC 1068: Associated Absorbers Caught in Emission?

Details Spatial Resolution of High-Velocity Filaments in the Narrow-Line Region of NGC 1068: Associated Absorbers Caught in Emission? Spatial Resolution of High-Velocity Filaments in the Narrow-Line Region of NGC 1068: Associated Absorbers Caught in Emission?

2001-12-11

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0112256v2

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

13 pages LaTeX w/ convenient embedded EPS figs, scheduled for ApJ April 1/02

Scientific paper

10.1086/338950

Using the HST STIS spectrograph we have obtained a grid of [O III] and H-beta emission-line spectra at 0"05x0"19 and 60 km/s (FWHM) resolution that covers much of the NLR of NGC 1068. We find emitting knots that have blueshifted radial velocities up to 3200 km/s relative to galaxy systemic, are 70-150 pc NE of the nucleus and up to 40 pc from the radio jet, emit several percent of the NLR line flux but no significant continuum, span velocity extents of up to 1250 km/s but a small fraction of the sky seen from the nucleus, coincide with a region of enhanced IR coronal-line emission, and have ionized masses $\sim$200 Msun/ne4 (ne4=10^4 cm^{-3}). We argue that the blueshifted knots are ablata from disintegrating molecular clouds that are being photoionized by the AGN, and are being accelerated readiatively by the AGN or mechanically by the radio jet. In their kinematic properties, the knots resemble the associated absorbers seen projected on the UV continua of some AGN. Between 2"5-4"5 from the nucleus, emission is redshifted relative to systemic, a pattern that we interpret as gas in the galaxy disk being pushed away from us by the NE radio lobe.

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