ISO-SWS spectroscopy of NGC 1068
arXiv:astro-ph/0002008 · doi:10.1086/308972
Abstract
We present ISO-SWS spectroscopy of NGC 1068 for the wavelength range 2.4 to 45um, detecting a total of 36 emission lines. Most of the observed transitions are fine structure and recombination lines originating in the narrow line region. We compare the line profiles of optical lines and reddening-insensitive infrared lines to constrain the dynamical structure and extinction properties of the NLR. The considerable differences found are most likely explained by two effects. (1) The spatial structure of the NLR is a combination of a highly ionized outflow cone and lower excitation extended emission. (2) Parts of the NLR, mainly in the receding part at velocities above systemic, are subject to extinction that is significantly suppressing optical emission. Line asymmetries and net blueshifts remain, however, even for infrared fine structure lines suffering very little obscuration. This may be either due to an intrinsic asymmetry of the NLR, or due to a very high column density obscuring component which is hiding part of the NLR even from infrared view. Mid-infrared emission of molecular hydrogen in NGC 1068 arises in a dense molecular medium at temperatures of a few hundred Kelvin that is most likely closely related to the warm and dense components seen in the near-infrared H2 transitions, and in millimeter wave tracers of molecular gas. Any emission of the putative pc-scale molecular torus is likely overwhelmed by this larger scale emission.
aastex (V4), 9 eps figures. Accepted by ApJ
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