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Near-Infrared Imaging Spectroscopy of the Seyfert Nucleus of the Circinus Galaxy

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

R. Maiolino ,
N. Thatte ,
H. Kroker ,
J.F. Gallimore  and
R. Genzel
R. Maiolino
Affiliation:
Max-Planck-Institut für Extraterrestrische Physik, D-85740, Garching, Germany
N. Thatte
Affiliation:
Max-Planck-Institut für Extraterrestrische Physik, D-85740, Garching, Germany
H. Kroker
Affiliation:
Max-Planck-Institut für Extraterrestrische Physik, D-85740, Garching, Germany
J.F. Gallimore
Affiliation:
Max-Planck-Institut für Extraterrestrische Physik, D-85740, Garching, Germany
R. Genzel
Affiliation:
Max-Planck-Institut für Extraterrestrische Physik, D-85740, Garching, Germany

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The Circinus galaxy is a nearby (4 Mpc) spiral that hosts a Seyfert nucleus as deduced by the emission of intense coronal lines (Oliva et al. 1994) and by the prominent ionization cone observed in [O III] images (Marconi et al. 1994).

We present K-band imaging spectroscopy of the nucleus of this galaxy obtained by means of 3D, the MPE imaging spectrometer (Weitzel et al. 1996), and ROGUE, a first-order adaptive-optics system (Thatte et al. 1995), mounted on the 2.2-m ESO telescope. The spectral resolution is 1000 and the average optical seeing was about 0”.6 (= 12 pc at the source).

Type
VI. The Narrow-Line Regions and Beyond
Information
International Astronomical Union Colloquium , Volume 159: Emission Lines in Active Galaxies: New Methods and Techniques , 1997 , pp. 351 - 352
Copyright
Copyright © Astronomical Society of the Pacific 1997

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