2 O 02MNRAS.331. .154R 2 12 1 resolution, andthereforesmallercontaminationfromanycircum- region (BLR)aredirectlyvisible,whileinSeyfert2(Sy2) Mon. Not.R.Astron.Soc.331,154-168(2002) European SouthernObservatory,Karl-Schwarzschild-Str.2,D-85748GarchingbeiMünchen,Germany [email protected] (MAP) (NIR;e.g.Veilleux,Goodrich &Hill1997),wherein nuclear starformation,canbeachievedbyobservinginthenear- the torushavemostlybeencarriedoutatmillimetrewavelengths invariably alignedwiththeradiojets. images (e.g.Mulchaey,Wilson&Tsvetanov1996)almost Moran etal.2000),believedtobelightfromtheBLRreflectedinto line region(NLR)isvisible.Thesemodelsaresupportedbythe the torusobscuresnucleusandBLRonlynarrow- nucleus. InSeyfert1(Syl)galaxiesthenucleusandbroad-line Antonucci 1993),whereathickmoleculartorussurroundsthe Arguably themostimportantadvanceinrecentresearchofactive Accepted 2001November15.Received15;inoriginalformMay9 J. Reunanen,*K.KotilainenandM.A.Prieto Near-infrared spectroscopyofnearbySeyfertgalaxies-I.Firstresults only thetotalmolecularcontentinnucleus.Betterspatial our lineofsight,andcone-likestructuresinnarrow-band[Om] detection inmanySy2sofbroadlinespolarizedemission(e.g. galaxies hasbeenthedevelopmentofunifiedmodels(e.g. ^E-mail: [email protected](JR); [email protected] (JKK); addition tothemolecularHlines awealthofotheremissionand (e.g. Maiolinoetal.1997),andconsequentlytheygenerallygive 1 INTRODUCTION Tuorla Observatory,UniversityofTurku,Väisäläntie20,FIN-21500Piikkiö,Finland 2 Searches fortheobscuringmolecularmaterialassociatedwith © Royal Astronomical Society •Provided bytheNASA Astrophysics DataSystem be strongerthanBryorH1-0S(l),whileintheSeyfert1NGC1566and1.5 We presentnear-infrared1.5-2.5jammoderate-resolutionlong-slitspectraoftwoSeyfert1 to thecone.Coronallinesaredetectedintwogalaxies,NGC1386and3227. is detectedinthreegalaxies(NGC1386,1566and3227),ofwhichNGC1386optically NGC 3227Bryisthestrongestline.Broadoriginatingfrombroad-lineregion(BLR) the excitationmechanismsofinterstellargas.InallthreeSeyfert2galaxies,[Fen]isfoundto ABSTRACT Key words:galaxies:active-nucleiSeyfertinfrared:galaxies. exception tothisistheSeyfert2NGC1386,wheretwoextendedregionsaredetectedparallel with activegalacticnucleus(AGN)unifiedmodels.ThevaluesofnuclearAarehigherin galaxies exceptinNGC5128,thespatialfullwidthathalf-maximum(FWHM)sizeofH classified asSeyfert2.Inthesegalaxies[Fen]isnarrowandmaybeX-rayexcited.all galaxies (NGC1097and1566),threeSeyfert2s1386,49455128)one Seyfert 2sthaninIs,withthe1.5NGC3227lyingbetweenthem.The are usedtostudythespatialextentoflineemission,integratedmassesexcitedHand 1 -0S(l)nuclearcoreislargerperpendiculartotheconeorjetthanparallelit,inagreement 1.5 (NGC3227),bothparalleltoanionizationconeorjetandperpendicularit.Thespectra 2 Ho 2 2 _1 positioned bothperpendicularandparalleltotheionizationconeor both typeswithanionizationconeand/orjets.Theslitwas been carriedout(e.g.Storchi-Bergmannetal.1999;Winge from theemission-linestudyofall the14Seyfertsinoursample, molecular gasinthecentralregions. trace thespatialdistribution,dynamicsandexcitationofmolecular images areavailableforallthegalaxies.Thesedatausedto to thejetinorderprobedistributionofmolecularmaterial moderate-resolution spectroscopyofthefirstsixgalaxiesinour molecular emission. 2000), buteventhesestudieshaveonlyoneslitpositionangle(PA) Seyfert spirals. sample, basedontheabsorption lines andcomparisonwithnon- and studythestellarpopulations and -forminghistoriesofthe and nebulargas,todeterminethemassofhot(T>1000K) and thusthegeometryoftorus.Additionally,broad-bandJHKs- sample ofnearby(5001.5 arcsec).OnlyrecentlyhavebetterresolutionNIRstudies studies havemostlybeenmadeatmoderatespatialresolution absorption linesareavailable.However,theNIRspectroscopic [Om] images,andthuscannotderivethegeometryof This paperisorganizedasfollows. InSection2theobservations, In forthcomingpublications,weshalldiscusstheimplications In thispaperwepresenttheresultsoflong-slit1.5-2.5pm © 2002RAS 2 O 02MNRAS.331. .154R -1 1 -1 1 Hq =75kmsMpcand0.5areassumed. region withnolineemission was subtractedtoremovethe region asdeeplypossible,allthespectraofagivengalaxywere , scale,inclination,PAofthemajoraxis,morphology,AGN presented inKotilainenetal.(2000).Thepropertiesofthegalaxies, resolution R=980andslitwidth1.0arcsec(0.6forNGC respectively. Inthespectroscopicobservationsredgrismwith Foundation. which areoperatedbytheAssociation ofUniversitiesforResearchin For fewlines,especiallyfor[Cavm]inNGC1386,anoutlaying the effectiveaperturehasadiameterof1.4or1.1arcsec.Thefluxes The nucleuswastracedbyfittingalow-orderpolynomial,strip using eitherOHnightskylinesorXearclampcalibrationframes. from eachother.Theimageswerethenflat-fieldedusingdome PA oftheconeorjet.Theintegrationsweretakenintwopositions type, thePAsused,totalintegrationtimes,slitwidthandfull the usefulslitlength—2arcmin.Broad-bandJHKsimageswere METHODS OFANALYSIS 2 OBSERVATIONS,DATAREDUCTIONAND Astronomy, Inc.,undercooperativeagreement withtheNationalScience and widthsofthelinesdetectedinthisaperturearegivenTable2. extracted. Asaresultofthisandtheslitwidth(1.0or0.6arcsec), combined andthecentral1.5-arcsec(5pixel)spectrumwas were binnedtogether.However,thesizesgivenlaterfornuclear good signal-to-noise(S/N)ratio,andthereforetwoormorepixels averaged, irafwasusedforallstagesofthedatareduction. divided byanatmosphericstandardstar,fluxcalibratedand continuum andOHlinesfromthesky.Finally,imageswere was extracted,andthestripswereaveragedtoeraseresidual were removedmanually.Theimageswavelength-calibrated flats. Badpixelsweremaskedoutandanyremainingcosmicrays along theslitseparatedby—2arcminandpairsweresubtracted at halfmaximum(FWHM)seeingaregiveninTable1. also obtained,exceptforNGC1097,whichweusedtheimage during theobservationswere0.65,—1.0and1.35arcsec, 3.6-m ESONewTechnologyTelescope(NTT)usingthe1024X Six nearbyactivegalaxieswereobservedin1999Januarywiththe we presentourpreliminaryconclusions.Throughoutthispaper, Section 3thegalaxiesarediscussedindividually,andin4 data reductionandmethodsusedintheanalysisareoutlined.In sources arebasedonunbinneddata.Inordertoprobethenuclear scale 0.29arcsecpixel.Thebest,averageandworstseeing © 2002RAS,MNRAS 331,154-168 irafisdistributedbytheNational OpticalAstronomyObservatories, 1386) wereused.Thewavelengthrangecoveredis1.5-2.5gumand 1024 pixelSOFIcamera(Lidman,Cuby&Vanzi2000)anda The accuratedeterminationoffluxesandlinewidthsrequiresa The long-slitspectraweretakenparallelandperpendiculartothe NGC 5128 NGC 4945 NGC 3227 NGC 1566 NGC 1386 NGC 1097 Table 1.Observationalpropertiesofthegalaxies. © Royal Astronomical Society •Provided bytheNASA Astrophysics DataSystem 0.00179 0.00194 0.00382 0.00483 0.00289 0.00425 -1 0 pc arcsec Scale i 74 94 56 82 19 19 78 74 46 65 56 28 141 158 PA MorphologyNucleus 43 25 30 30 SAB(s)a pec SAB(s)bc + SBcdsp SB(s)b SB0 E2 Syl.5 Sy2 Sy2 Syl Sy2 Syl 4 -185 4-3 We haveestimatedtheextinctionbycomparingobserved roughly bedividedintothreeclasses:coolorwarmmolecular been usedintheanalysis.Thesefeaturesarenotartificialor be usedtoestimatetheextinction.Ausefullinepairin pairs weregenerallydetected.OnlyinNGC4945theBr£andBrr/ may notbecorrectforthelineemission.However,nouseful th&H —KcolourofSOorEgalaxiesresemblesthespiral unobscured spiralgalaxies(H—K=0.22,Huntetal.1997),as integrated coloursfromthespectrawithofnormal, 2.1 Extinction underlying absorptionlines.Thequotederrorsinthefollowing Thermal excitation,eitherbyshocks (e.g.Hollenbach&McKee Hei) andveryhot,highlyionized matternearthecentreof mechanisms oftheinterstellarmatter.Sourceslineemissioncan The emission-lineratioscanbeusedtoprobetheexcitation 2.2 Hmoleculargas:excitationandmassestimate telluric, asthevelocityfieldderivedfromthemagreeswith NGC 1386,1566,3227and5128,asmarkedintherespective the sameD/2level.Thesefaintemissionlinesaredetectedin the centralregionandinlowestpanelofspatialprofile have assumedtheextinctionlawocÀ(Fandinietal.1984) lines and/orthecontaminationfromnearbyabsorptionlines.We The difficultyofdetectingotherHulinesarisesfromthehigh is similartothatderivedfromthecontinuumcoloursofspectra. lines arevisibleinafewregionsandtheextinctionbasedonthem extinction basedoncontinuumcoloursortheslopeofspectra galaxies (Fioc&Rocca-Volmerange1999).Wenotethatthe galaxies (coronallines).Themain mechanismsfortheHemission clouds (Hlines),warmionizedinterstellar gas(Hulines,[Fen], general rotationofthegalaxies. extended thanthemain1.64-jamline.Forthisreason,theyhavenot figures. However,thelinesaregenerallymuchbroaderandmore 2000; here0.37). with previousmeasurements(e.g.H—K=0.34,Kotilainenetal. with thepreviousderivations:e.g.inNGC4945Marconietal. figures. Ourextinctionmeasurementsareinfairlygoodagreement extinction thesegalaxiessuffer,theintrinsicweaknessofHit are thermal(collisional)heatingand UVpumping(fluorescence). and aforegrounddustscreen.TheextinctionisgiveninTable2for sections aregenerallydominatedbythecontinuumfitting,and (1996) derivedAy~1.1fromthecontinuumcoloursand> 1er except3