BI-DIMENSIONAL SPECTROGRAPHY AT HST-LIKE SPATIAL-RESOLUTION - [O-III]KINEMATICS AND IONIZATION IN THE NLR OF NGC-1068

Citation
E. Pecontal et al., BI-DIMENSIONAL SPECTROGRAPHY AT HST-LIKE SPATIAL-RESOLUTION - [O-III]KINEMATICS AND IONIZATION IN THE NLR OF NGC-1068, Astrophysics and space science, 248(1-2), 1997, pp. 167-174
Citations number
8
Categorie Soggetti
Astronomy & Astrophysics
ISSN journal
0004640X
Volume
248
Issue
1-2
Year of publication
1997
Pages
167 - 174
Database
ISI
SICI code
0004-640X(1997)248:1-2<167:BSAHS->2.0.ZU;2-4
Abstract
We present a study at HST-like spatial resolution of the gas kinematic s in the innermost part of NGC 1068. This work is based on observation s with the integral field spectrograph TIGER mounted on the CFH Telesc ope. We first derived the final spatial PSF of our data and checked it s photometric integrity by comparison with two independent [OIII] HST images (FOG and WFPC2). We then performed a spatial deconvolution of t he data-cube constraining the sum of the deconvolved velocity-slices t o be as close as possible to the HST image. The resulting deconvolved data-cube has then a resolution similar to the HST image. It shows tha t the velocity distribution of the inner clouds detected with the HST differs strongly from a simple NE-SW ejection flow. We thus show that the previous interpretations of the double-peaked lines NE of the nucl eus must be revisited.