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High Velocity Ionized Gas near IRS 16

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 September 2016

T. R. Geballe
Affiliation:
Joint Astronomy Centre; 665 Komohana Street Hilo, Hawaii 96720 U.S.A.
J. B. Lugten
Affiliation:
Institute for Astronomy; 2680 Woodlawn Drive Honolulu, Hawaii 96822 U.S.A.

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An important means of studying the unusual activity within the central ~0.15 parsec of the galaxy is to obtain detailed information on the high velocity ionized gas there. This gas was first reported by Hall, Kleinmann, and Scoville (1982), who observed the He I line at 2.06 μm. Subsequent observations of this line and the Br ∝ and Br γ lines of H I (4.05 μm and 2.17 μm, respectively) by Geballe et al. (1984, 1987) have defined the coarse spatial and spectral properties more accurately. Briefly, the broad (i.e., |v| > 400 km/s) line emission, as observed at velocity resolutions as high as 400 km/s and angular resolutions as high as 2.5″ (1) extends approximately to +/– 700 km/s (e.g., see Fig. 1), (2) is spatially resolved, with a characteristic dimension of 3″, (3) is centered approximately on IRS 16C, and (4) appears to be due neither to rotational motion nor to a simple radial flow from or onto a single compact object. These properties are difficult to understand in terms of simple models, and point out the necessity for further measurements at higher spectral and spatial resolutions.

Type
The Compact Central Objects
Copyright
Copyright © Kluwer 1989 

References

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