Composite Bulges -- IV. Detecting Signatures of Gas Inflows in the IFU data
- Autor(en)
- Tutku Kolcu, Witold Maciejewski, Dimitri A. Gadotti, Francesca Fragkoudi, Peter Erwin, Patricia Sánchez-Blázquez, Justus Neumann, Glenn Van de Ven, Camila de Sá-Freitas, Steven Longmore, Victor P. Debattista
- Abstrakt
Using VLT/MUSE integral-field spectroscopic data for the barred spiral galaxy NGC 1097, we explore techniques that can be used to search for extended coherent shocks that can drive gas inflows in centres of galaxies. Such shocks should appear as coherent velocity jumps in gas kinematic maps, but this appearance can be distorted by inaccurate extraction of the velocity values and dominated by the global rotational flow and local perturbations like stellar outflows. We include multiple components in the emission-line fits, which corrects the extracted velocity values and reveals emission associated with AGN outflows. We show that removal of the global rotational flow by subtracting the circular velocity of a fitted flat disc can produce artefacts that obscure signatures of the shocks in the residual velocities if the inner part of the disc is warped or if gas is moving around the centre on elongated (non-circular) trajectories. As an alternative, we propose a model-independent method which examines differences in the LOSVD moments of H α and [N II]λ6583. This new method successfully reveals the presence of continuous shocks in the regions inward from the nuclear ring of NGC 1097, in agreement with nuclear spiral models.
- Organisation(en)
- Institut für Astrophysik
- Externe Organisation(en)
- Liverpool John Moores University (LJMU), European Southern Observatory (Germany), Durham University, Max-Planck-Institut für extraterrestrische Physik, Universitäts-Sternwarte München, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Max-Planck-Institut für Astronomie, University of Central Lancashire
- Journal
- Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
- Band
- 524
- Seiten
- 207-223
- Anzahl der Seiten
- 17
- ISSN
- 0035-8711
- Publikationsdatum
- 06-2023
- Peer-reviewed
- Ja
- ÖFOS 2012
- 103003 Astronomie, 103004 Astrophysik
- Schlagwörter
- ASJC Scopus Sachgebiete
- Astronomy and Astrophysics, Space and Planetary Science
- Link zum Portal
- https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/de/publications/4748b2f8-f176-4c7a-a303-d47616b0137e