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Imaging Spectrophotometry of the Jet/ISM Interaction in IC5063IC5063 is a somewhat dusty z=0.0110 S0 galaxy with a Seyfert 2 nucleus. It has a triple radio source that spans 3 arcsec, mostly blueshifted H I absorption that spans 700 km/s, and ionization cones that extend for more than 2 arcmins. We obtained fully sampled [O III]\lambda5007 grids at 0."9 and 70 km/s FWHM resolution using the Rutgers Fabry-Perot system on the Blanco 4m telescope. Complementary long-slit spectra using the RC spectrograph on the Blanco, and Taurus Tunable Filter spectral images in H\alpha and [N II]\lambda6583, were also obtained to assess gaseous ionization conditions. We present the results of our analysis, and correlate spectral structures to those visible in archival WFPC2 images. We find that, in the region near the radio triple, gaseous ionization and line velocity width is tightly correlated, in excellent quantitative agreement with the high-velocity shock regime in the diagnostic emission-line ratio diagrams of Dopita & Sutherland. We separate kinematically gas in normal disk rotation that is illuminated by the AGN in the ionization cones from that agitated mechanically by the jet, and assess the energy input from both processes.
Document ID
20040055408
Acquisition Source
Headquarters
Document Type
Other
Authors
Cecil, G.
(North Carolina Univ. Chapel Hill, NC, United States)
Schuft, B.
(North Carolina Univ. Chapel Hill, NC, United States)
Morse, J.
(Colorado Univ. Boulder, CO, United States)
Bland-Hawthorn, J.
(Anglo-Australian Observatory Australia)
Date Acquired
August 21, 2013
Publication Date
January 1, 2004
Subject Category
Astronomy
Funding Number(s)
CONTRACT_GRANT: NAG5-8397
Distribution Limits
Public
Copyright
Work of the US Gov. Public Use Permitted.

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