Pulling back the curtain on shocks and star-formation in NGC 1266 with Gemini-NIFS

Justin Atsushi Otter, Katherine Alatalo, Kate Rowlands +21

We present Gemini near-infrared integral field spectrograph (NIFS) K-band observations of the central 400 pc of NGC 1266, a nearby (D$\approx$30 Mpc) post-starburst galaxy with a p…