Near-IR 2D-Spectroscopy of the 4''x 4'' region around the Active Galactic Nucleus of NGC1068 with ISAAC/VLT

Abstract

We present new near-IR long slit spectroscopic data obtained with ISAAC on VLT/ANTU (ESO/Paranal) of the central 4''x 4'' region surrounding the central engine of NGC1068 . Bracket Gamma (Bg) and H2 emission line maps and line profile grids are produced, at a spatial resolution~0.5" and spectral resolution 35km/s. Two conspicuous knots of H2 emission are detected at about 1'' on each side of the central engine along PA=90deg, with a projected velocity difference of 140km/s: this velocity jump has been interpreted in Alloin et al (2001) as the signature of a rotating disk of molecular material. Another knot with both H2 and Bg emission is detected to the North of the central engine, close to the radio source C where the small scale radio jet is redirected and close to the brightest [OIII] cloud NLR-B. At the achieved spectral resolution, the H2 emission line profiles appear highly asymmetric with their low velocity wing being systematically more extended than their high velocity wing. A simple way to account for the changes of the H2 line profiles (peak-shift with respect to the systemic velocity, width, asymmetry) over the entire 4''x 4'' region, is to consider that a radial outflow is superimposed over the emission of the rotating molecular disk. We present a model of such a kinematical configuration and compare our predicted H2 emission profiles to the observed ones.

15 pages, 11 figures, accepted for publication in A&A

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