The obscured nucleus of NGC3256 S. I. Anisotropic AGN near-IR radiation field traced by CO v=1-0 with JWST/NIRSpec

Miguel Pereira-Santaella, Eduardo González-Alfonso, Ismael García-Bernete +4

The southern nucleus of NGC3256, a nearby luminous infrared (IR) interacting system (d=40 Mpc; L(IR)=10^11.6 Lsun), hosts a deeply obscured low-luminosity active galactic nucleus (…