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Hyper-Fine Features of the Dust Distribution in the Central Region of the Seyfert Galaxy NGC 4151
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 13 May 2016
Abstract
Fine features of the dust distribution in the central region of NGC 4151 have been studied from high resolution images obtained by the Subaru Telescope. The two dust lanes lying along a circum-nuclear ellipse of 40“ ×20” have been recognized to consist of a number of fine filaments and knots. In the inner region, there has been found dust distributed in a bipolar cone region extending to 5” from the nucleus. This cone is exactly complementary to the well-known bipolar ionized gaseous region. A dense knot is seen at 2” SE from the nucleus, but no torus-like feature is recognized. The masses of neutral gas in the outer lanes and in the inner region are estimated as 106M⊙ and 105M⊙ respectively. These observational results are compared with results of numerical simulations of gas dynamics.
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