Unveiling the central parsec region of an AGN: the Circinus nucleus in the near infrared with the VLT

M. Almudena Prieto, K. Meisenheimer, Olivier Marco +12

VLT J- to M\p-band adaptive optics observations of the Circinus Galaxy on parsec scales resolve a central bright Ks-band source with a FWHM size of 1.9 $\pm$ 0.6 pc. This source is…