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Determination of the Gravitational Potential of Seyfert Cores from High-Resolution Spatial and Spectral Data

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

M. Wittkowski
M. Wittkowski*
Affiliation:
Max-Planck-Institut für Radioastronomie, Auf dem Hügel 69, D-53121 Bonn, Germany

Abstract

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We summarize the current state of our project to determine the gravitational potential in the innermost few hundred parsecs of Seyfert cores from observed line-of-sight velocities of molecular clouds. Therefore we distinguish between the observational part on the one hand and the theoretical aspects on the other. On the theoretical side the problem is lack of knowledge of the flow pattern and the spatial distribution of the clouds. We analyze the possibility of distinguishing between the different flow patterns and determining the mass distribution. On the observational side the problem is obtaining sufficiently high spatial and spectral resolution.

Type
X. Unification of Active Galaxies and Other Global Issues
Information
International Astronomical Union Colloquium , Volume 159: Emission Lines in Active Galaxies: New Methods and Techniques , 1997 , pp. 485 - 486
Copyright
Copyright © Astronomical Society of the Pacific 1997

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