O VI emission in nuclear region of NGC 1068

Zheng, Wei; Kriss, Gerard A; Wang, J.-X.; Sahnow, David; Allen, Mark G.; Dopita, Michael; Tsvetanov, Zlatan; Bicknell, Geoffrey

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O VI emission in nuclear region of NGC 1068

Date

2009

Authors

Zheng, Wei

Kriss, Gerard A

Wang, J.-X.

Sahnow, David

Allen, Mark G.

Dopita, Michael

Tsvetanov, Zlatan

Bicknell, Geoffrey

Publisher

American Institute of Physics (AIP)

Abstract

FUSE Spectra of the nuclear region of NGC 1068 find strong OVI emission consisting of a pair of narrow and broad components. There is a gradient in the velocity field for the narrow O V I component of ∼ 200 kms- 1 from ∼ 2" southwest of the nucleus to