The Astrophysical Journal Letters (Jan 2022)
GOALS-JWST: Resolving the Circumnuclear Gas Dynamics in NGC 7469 in the Mid-infrared
- Vivian U,
- Thomas Lai,
- Marina Bianchin,
- Raymond P. Remigio,
- Lee Armus,
- Kirsten L. Larson,
- Tanio Díaz-Santos,
- Aaron Evans,
- Sabrina Stierwalt,
- David R. Law,
- Matthew A. Malkan,
- Sean Linden,
- Yiqing Song,
- Paul P. van der Werf,
- Tianmu Gao,
- George C. Privon,
- Anne M. Medling,
- Loreto Barcos-Muñoz,
- Christopher C. Hayward,
- Hanae Inami,
- Jeff Rich,
- Susanne Aalto,
- Philip Appleton,
- Thomas Bohn,
- Torsten Böker,
- Michael J. I. Brown,
- Vassilis Charmandaris,
- Luke Finnerty,
- Justin Howell,
- Kazushi Iwasawa,
- Francisca Kemper,
- Jason Marshall,
- Joseph M. Mazzarella,
- Jed McKinney,
- Francisco Muller-Sanchez,
- Eric J. Murphy,
- David Sanders,
- Jason Surace
Affiliations
- Vivian U
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, 4129 Frederick Reines Hall, University of California , Irvine, CA 92697, USA ; [email protected]
- Thomas Lai
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- IPAC, California Institute of Technology , 1200 E. California Boulevard, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA
- Marina Bianchin
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, 4129 Frederick Reines Hall, University of California , Irvine, CA 92697, USA ; [email protected]; Universidade Federal de Santa Maria , Departamento de Física, Centro de Ciências Naturais e Exatas, 97105-900, Santa Maria, RS, Brazil
- Raymond P. Remigio
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, 4129 Frederick Reines Hall, University of California , Irvine, CA 92697, USA ; [email protected]
- Lee Armus
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- IPAC, California Institute of Technology , 1200 E. California Boulevard, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA
- Kirsten L. Larson
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- AURA for the European Space Agency (ESA), Space Telescope Science Institute , 3700 San Martin Drive, Baltimore, MD 21218, USA
- Tanio Díaz-Santos
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- Institute of Astrophysics, Foundation for Research and Technology-Hellas (FORTH) , Heraklion, 70013, Greece; School of Sciences, European University Cyprus , Diogenes street, Engomi, 1516 Nicosia, Cyprus
- Aaron Evans
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- National Radio Astronomy Observatory , 520 Edgemont Road, Charlottesville, VA 22903, USA; Department of Astronomy, University of Virginia , 530 McCormick Road, Charlottesville, VA 22903, USA
- Sabrina Stierwalt
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- Physics Department, 1600 Campus Road, Occidental College , Los Angeles, CA 90041, USA
- David R. Law
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- Space Telescope Science Institute , 3700 San Martin Drive, Baltimore, MD 21218, USA
- Matthew A. Malkan
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- Department of Physics & Astronomy, 430 Portola Plaza, University of California , Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA
- Sean Linden
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- Department of Astronomy, University of Massachusetts at Amherst , Amherst, MA 01003, USA
- Yiqing Song
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- National Radio Astronomy Observatory , 520 Edgemont Road, Charlottesville, VA 22903, USA; Department of Astronomy, University of Virginia , 530 McCormick Road, Charlottesville, VA 22903, USA; European Southern Observatory , Alonso de Cordova 3107, Santiago, Chile
- Paul P. van der Werf
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- Leiden Observatory, Leiden University , PO Box 9513, 2300 RA Leiden, The Netherlands
- Tianmu Gao
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- Department of Astronomy, Beijing Normal University , Beijing 100875, People’s Republic of China
- George C. Privon
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- National Radio Astronomy Observatory , 520 Edgemont Road, Charlottesville, VA 22903, USA; Department of Astronomy, University of Florida , P.O. Box 112055, Gainesville, FL 32611, USA
- Anne M. Medling
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- Department of Physics & Astronomy and Ritter Astrophysical Research Center, University of Toledo , Toledo, OH 43606, USA; ARC Centre of Excellence for All Sky Astrophysics in 3 Dimensions (ASTRO 3D); Australia
- Loreto Barcos-Muñoz
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- National Radio Astronomy Observatory , 520 Edgemont Road, Charlottesville, VA 22903, USA; Department of Astronomy, University of Virginia , 530 McCormick Road, Charlottesville, VA 22903, USA
- Christopher C. Hayward
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- Center for Computational Astrophysics, Flatiron Institute , 162 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10010, USA
- Hanae Inami
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- Hiroshima Astrophysical Science Center, Hiroshima University , 1-3-1 Kagamiyama, Higashi-Hiroshima, Hiroshima 739-8526, Japan
- Jeff Rich
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- The Observatories of the Carnegie Institution for Science , 813 Santa Barbara Street, Pasadena, CA 91101, USA
- Susanne Aalto
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- Department of Space, Earth and Environment, Chalmers University of Technology , SE-412 96 Gothenburg, Sweden
- Philip Appleton
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- IPAC, California Institute of Technology , 1200 E. California Boulevard, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA
- Thomas Bohn
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- Hiroshima Astrophysical Science Center, Hiroshima University , 1-3-1 Kagamiyama, Higashi-Hiroshima, Hiroshima 739-8526, Japan
- Torsten Böker
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- European Space Agency, Space Telescope Science Institute , 3700 San Martin Drive, Baltimore, MD 21218, USA
- Michael J. I. Brown
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- School of Physics and Astronomy, Monash University , Clayton, VIC 3800, Australia
- Vassilis Charmandaris
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- Institute of Astrophysics, Foundation for Research and Technology-Hellas (FORTH) , Heraklion, 70013, Greece; School of Sciences, European University Cyprus , Diogenes street, Engomi, 1516 Nicosia, Cyprus; Department of Physics, University of Crete , Heraklion, 71003, Greece
- Luke Finnerty
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- Department of Physics & Astronomy, 430 Portola Plaza, University of California , Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA
- Justin Howell
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- IPAC, California Institute of Technology , 1200 E. California Boulevard, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA
- Kazushi Iwasawa
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- Institut de Ciències del Cosmos (ICCUB), Universitat de Barcelona (IEEC-UB) , Martí i Franquès, 1, E-08028 Barcelona, Spain; ICREA, Pg. Lluís Companys 23, E-08010 Barcelona, Spain
- Francisca Kemper
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- ICREA, Pg. Lluís Companys 23, E-08010 Barcelona, Spain; Institut de Ciencies de l’Espai (ICE, CSIC) , Can Magrans, s/n, E-08193 Bellaterra, Barcelona, Spain; Institut d’Estudis Espacials de Catalunya (IEEC) , E-08034 Barcelona, Spain
- Jason Marshall
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- Glendale Community College , 1500 N. Verdugo Road, Glendale, CA 91208, USA
- Joseph M. Mazzarella
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- IPAC, California Institute of Technology , 1200 E. California Boulevard, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA
- Jed McKinney
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- Department of Astronomy, University of Massachusetts , Amherst, MA 01003, USA; Department of Astronomy, The University of Texas at Austin , 2515 Speedway Boulevard, Stop C1400, Austin, TX 78712, USA
- Francisco Muller-Sanchez
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- Department of Physics and Materials Science, The University of Memphis , 3720 Alumni Avenue, Memphis, TN 38152, USA
- Eric J. Murphy
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- National Radio Astronomy Observatory , 520 Edgemont Road, Charlottesville, VA 22903, USA; Department of Physics and Materials Science, The University of Memphis , 3720 Alumni Avenue, Memphis, TN 38152, USA
- David Sanders
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- Institute for Astronomy, University of Hawaii , 2680 Woodlawn Drive, Honolulu, HI 96822, USA
- Jason Surace
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- IPAC, California Institute of Technology , 1200 E. California Boulevard, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.3847/2041-8213/ac961c
- Journal volume & issue
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Vol. 940,
no. 1
p. L5
Abstract
The nearby, luminous infrared galaxy NGC 7469 hosts a Seyfert nucleus with a circumnuclear star-forming ring and is thus the ideal local laboratory for investigating the starburst–AGN (active galactic nucleus) connection in detail. We present integral-field observations of the central 1.3 kpc region in NGC 7469 obtained with the JWST Mid-InfraRed Instrument. Molecular and ionized gas distributions and kinematics at a resolution of ∼100 pc over the 4.9–7.6 μ m region are examined to study the gas dynamics influenced by the central AGN. The low-ionization [Fe ii ] λ 5.34 μ m and [Ar ii ] λ 6.99 μ m lines are bright on the nucleus and in the starburst ring, as opposed to H _2 S(5) λ 6.91 μ m, which is strongly peaked at the center and surrounding ISM. The high-ionization [Mg v ] line is resolved and shows a broad, blueshifted component associated with the outflow. It has a nearly face-on geometry that is strongly peaked on the nucleus, where it reaches a maximum velocity of −650 km s ^−1 , and extends about 400 pc to the east. Regions of enhanced velocity dispersion in H _2 and [Fe ii ] ∼ 180 pc from the AGN that also show high L (H _2 )/ L (PAH) and L ([Fe ii ])/ L (Pf α ) ratios to the W and N of the nucleus pinpoint regions where the ionized outflow is depositing energy, via shocks, into the dense interstellar medium between the nucleus and the starburst ring. These resolved mid-infrared observations of the nuclear gas dynamics demonstrate the power of JWST and its high-sensitivity integral-field spectroscopic capability to resolve feedback processes around supermassive black holes in the dusty cores of nearby luminous infrared galaxies.
