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
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.