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Kolcu, T, Maciejewski, W, Gadotti, DA, Fragkoudi, F, Erwin, P, Sánchez-Blázquez, P, Neumann, J, Van De Ven, G, De Sá-Freitas, C, Longmore, S and Debattista, VP (2023) Composite bulges-IV. Detecting signatures of gas inflows in the IFU data: The MUSE view of ionized gas kinematics in NGC 1097. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 524 (1). pp. 207-223. ISSN 0035-8711
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Abstract
Using VLT/MUSE integral-field spectroscopic data for the barred spiral galaxy NGC 1097, we explore techniques that can be used to search for extended coherent shocks that can drive gas inflows in centres of galaxies. Such shocks should appear as coherent velocity jumps in gas kinematic maps, but this appearance can be distorted by inaccurate extraction of the velocity values and dominated by the global rotational flow and local perturbations like stellar outflows. We include multiple components in the emission-line fits, which corrects the extracted velocity values and reveals emission associated with AGN outflows. We show that removal of the global rotational flow by subtracting the circular velocity of a fitted flat disc can produce artefacts that obscure signatures of the shocks in the residual velocities if the inner part of the disc is warped or if gas is moving around the centre on elongated (non-circular) trajectories. As an alternative, we propose a model-independent method which examines differences in the LOSVD moments of H α and [N II]λ6583. This new method successfully reveals the presence of continuous shocks in the regions inward from the nuclear ring of NGC 1097, in agreement with nuclear spiral models.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Additional Information: | This article has been accepted for publication in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society ©: 2023 The Author(s) Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Royal Astronomical Society. All rights reserved. |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | 0201 Astronomical and Space Sciences; Astronomy & Astrophysics |
| Subjects: | Q Science > QC Physics |
| Divisions: | Astrophysics Research Institute |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press (OUP) |
| SWORD Depositor: | A Symplectic |
| Date Deposited: | 13 Sep 2023 09:11 |
| Last Modified: | 13 Sep 2023 09:15 |
| DOI or ID number: | 10.1093/mnras/stad1896 |
| URI: | https://researchonline.ljmu.ac.uk/id/eprint/21430 |
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