Resolving the coronal line region of NGC 1068 with near-infrared integral field spectroscopy

Mazzalay, X; Rodriıguez-Ardila, A; Komossa, S; McGregor, Peter

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Resolving the coronal line region of NGC 1068 with near-infrared integral field spectroscopy

Date

2013

Authors

Mazzalay, X

Rodriıguez-Ardila, A

Komossa, S

McGregor, Peter

Publisher

Blackwell Publishing Ltd

Abstract

We present adaptive optics-assisted J- and K-band integral field spectroscopy of the inner 300 × 300 pc of the Seyfert 2 galaxy NGC 1068. The data were obtained with the Gemini Near-infrared Integral-Field Spectrograph integral field unit spectrometer, w