Issue |
A&A
Volume 476, Number 2, December III 2007
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Page(s) | 735 - 743 | |
Section | Extragalactic astronomy | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20077888 | |
Published online | 24 September 2007 |
IC 5063: AGN driven outflow of warm and cold gas*
1
Netherlands Foundation for Research in Astronomy, Postbus 2, 7990 AA Dwingeloo, The Netherlands e-mail: morganti@astron.nl
2
Kapteyn Astronomical Institute, University of Groningen, Landleven 12, 9747 AD Groningen, The Netherlands
3
Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, S7 3RH, UK
4
Raman Research Institute, CV Raman Avenue, Sadashivanagar, Bangalore 560080, India
5
CSIRO, Australia Telescope National Facility, PO Box 76, Epping NSW 1710, Australia
Received:
15
May
2007
Accepted:
13
September
2007
We present new ATCA 17- and 24-GHz radio images and ESO-NTT
optical spectra of the radio-loud Seyfert galaxy IC 5063, the first galaxy
in which a fast (~600 km s-1) outflow of neutral hydrogen was discovered. The
new radio data confirm the triple radio structure with a central, unresolved
flat-spectrum core and two resolved radio lobes with steep spectral
index. This implies that the previously detected fast outflow of neutral gas
is occurring off-nucleus, near a radio lobe about 0.5 kpc from the core. The
ionised gas shows highly complex kinematics in the region co-spatial with the
radio emission. Broad and blueshifted (~500 km s-1) emission is observed in the region
of the radio lobe, at the same location as the blueshifted
absorption. The velocity of the ionised outflow is similar to
the one found in
. The first order correspondence between the radio and
optical properties suggests that the outflow is driven by the interaction
between the radio jet and the ISM. However, despite the high outflow
velocities, no evidence is found for the ionisation of the gas being due to
fast shocks in the region of the outflow, indicating that photoionisation
from the AGN is likely to be the dominant ionisation mechanism.
The outflow rate of the warm (ionised) gas is small compared to that of
the cold gas, similar to what is found in other radio galaxies. The
mass outflow rate associated with the
is in the same range as
for “mild” starburst-driven superwinds in ULIRGs. However, in
IC 5063, the AGN-driven outflow appears to be limited to the inner kpc region of the galaxy.
The kinetic power associated with the
outflow is a small fraction (a few
10-4) of the Eddington luminosity of the galaxy but is a
significant fraction (~0.1) of the nuclear bolometric luminosity. In
IC 5063, the observed outflows may have sufficient kinetic power to have a significant impact
on the evolution of the ISM in the host galaxy.
Key words: galaxies: Seyfert / galaxies: active / ISM: jets and outflows
© ESO, 2007
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