1. The multiphase gas structure and kinematics in the circumnuclear region of NGC 5728
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R. A. Riffel, Marc Schartmann, Sylvain Veilleux, F. Müller-Sánchez, R. Genzel, Dieter Lutz, Dalya Baron, Sedona H. Price, Leonard Burtscher, E. K. S. Hicks, Amiel Sternberg, Min-Kai Lin, Eckhard Sturm, Ric Davies, Michael Koss, Allan Schnorr-Müller, Thaisa Storchi-Bergmann, David J. Rosario, T. Taro Shimizu, Witold Maciejewski, Claudio Ricci, Rogemar A. Riffel, G. Orban de Xivry, Linda J. Tacconi, and Roger L. Davies
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Active galactic nucleus ,Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena ,Population ,FOS: Physical sciences ,Astrophysics ,Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics ,01 natural sciences ,Luminosity ,0103 physical sciences ,Astrophysics::Solar and Stellar Astrophysics ,education ,010303 astronomy & astrophysics ,QC ,Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics ,QB ,Physics ,education.field_of_study ,010308 nuclear & particles physics ,Velocity dispersion ,Astronomy and Astrophysics ,Radius ,Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies ,Galaxy ,Dust lane ,Stars ,Space and Planetary Science ,Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA) ,Astrophysics::Earth and Planetary Astrophysics - Abstract
We report on our combined analysis of HST, VLT/MUSE, VLT/SINFONI, and ALMA observations of the local Seyfert 2 galaxy, NGC 5728 to investigate in detail the feeding and feedback of the AGN. The datasets simultaneously probe the morphology, excitation, and kinematics of the stars, ionized gas, and molecular gas over a large range of spatial scales (10 pc--10 kpc). NGC 5728 contains a large stellar bar which is driving gas along prominent dust lanes to the inner 1 kpc where the gas settles into a circumnuclear ring. The ring is strongly star forming and contains a substantial population of young stars as indicated by the lowered stellar velocity dispersion and gas excitation consistent with HII regions. We model the kinematics of the ring using the velocity field of the CO (2--1) emission and stars and find it is consistent with a rotating disk. The outer regions of the disk, where the dust lanes meet the ring, show signatures of inflow at a rate of 1 M$_{\sun}$ yr$^{-1}$. Inside the ring, we observe three molecular gas components corresponding to the circular rotation of the outer ring, a warped disk, and the nuclear stellar bar. The AGN is driving an ionized gas outflow that reaches a radius of 250 pc with a mass outflow rate of 0.08 M$_{\sun}$ yr$^{-1}$ consistent with its luminosity and scaling relations from previous studies. While we observe distinct holes in CO emission which could be signs of molecular gas removal, we find that largely the AGN is not disrupting the structure of the circumnuclear region., accepted for publication in MNRAS; 22 pages + Appendix, 16 figures
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- 2019