Pulling back the curtain on shocks and star-formation in NGC 1266 with Gemini-NIFS
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| author | Otter, Justin Atsushi Alatalo, Katherine Rowlands, Kate McDermid, Richard M. Davis, Timothy A. Federrath, Christoph French, K. Decker Heckman, Timothy Ogle, Patrick Kakkad, Darshan Luo, Yuanze Nyland, Kristina Tripathi, Akshat Patil, Pallavi Petric, Andreea Smercina, Adam Skarbinski, Maya Lanz, Lauranne Larson, Kristin Appleton, Philip N. Aalto, Susanne Olander, Gustav Sazonova, Elizaveta Smith, J. D. T. |
| author_facet | Otter, Justin Atsushi Alatalo, Katherine Rowlands, Kate McDermid, Richard M. Davis, Timothy A. Federrath, Christoph French, K. Decker Heckman, Timothy Ogle, Patrick Kakkad, Darshan Luo, Yuanze Nyland, Kristina Tripathi, Akshat Patil, Pallavi Petric, Andreea Smercina, Adam Skarbinski, Maya Lanz, Lauranne Larson, Kristin Appleton, Philip N. Aalto, Susanne Olander, Gustav Sazonova, Elizaveta Smith, J. D. T. |
| contents | We present Gemini near-infrared integral field spectrograph (NIFS) K-band observations of the central 400 pc of NGC 1266, a nearby (D$\approx$30 Mpc) post-starburst galaxy with a powerful multi-phase outflow and a shocked ISM. We detect 7 H$_2$ ro-vibrational emission lines excited thermally to $T$$\sim$2000 K, and weak Br$γ$ emission, consistent with a fast C-shock. With these bright H$_2$ lines, we observe the spatial structure of the shock with an unambiguous tracer for the first time. The Br$γ$ emission is concentrated in the central $\lesssim$100 pc, indicating that any remaining star-formation in NGC 1266 is in the nucleus while the surrounding cold molecular gas has little on-going star-formation. Though it is unclear what fraction of this Br$γ$ emission is from star-formation or the AGN, assuming it is entirely due to star-formation we measure an instantaneous star-formation rate of 0.7 M$_\odot$ yr$^{-1}$, though the star-formation rate may be significantly higher in the presence of additional extinction. NGC 1266 provides a unique laboratory to study the complex interactions between AGN, outflows, shocks, and star-formation, all of which are necessary to unravel the evolution of the post-starburst phase. |
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| spellingShingle | Pulling back the curtain on shocks and star-formation in NGC 1266 with Gemini-NIFS Otter, Justin Atsushi Alatalo, Katherine Rowlands, Kate McDermid, Richard M. Davis, Timothy A. Federrath, Christoph French, K. Decker Heckman, Timothy Ogle, Patrick Kakkad, Darshan Luo, Yuanze Nyland, Kristina Tripathi, Akshat Patil, Pallavi Petric, Andreea Smercina, Adam Skarbinski, Maya Lanz, Lauranne Larson, Kristin Appleton, Philip N. Aalto, Susanne Olander, Gustav Sazonova, Elizaveta Smith, J. D. T. Astrophysics of Galaxies We present Gemini near-infrared integral field spectrograph (NIFS) K-band observations of the central 400 pc of NGC 1266, a nearby (D$\approx$30 Mpc) post-starburst galaxy with a powerful multi-phase outflow and a shocked ISM. We detect 7 H$_2$ ro-vibrational emission lines excited thermally to $T$$\sim$2000 K, and weak Br$γ$ emission, consistent with a fast C-shock. With these bright H$_2$ lines, we observe the spatial structure of the shock with an unambiguous tracer for the first time. The Br$γ$ emission is concentrated in the central $\lesssim$100 pc, indicating that any remaining star-formation in NGC 1266 is in the nucleus while the surrounding cold molecular gas has little on-going star-formation. Though it is unclear what fraction of this Br$γ$ emission is from star-formation or the AGN, assuming it is entirely due to star-formation we measure an instantaneous star-formation rate of 0.7 M$_\odot$ yr$^{-1}$, though the star-formation rate may be significantly higher in the presence of additional extinction. NGC 1266 provides a unique laboratory to study the complex interactions between AGN, outflows, shocks, and star-formation, all of which are necessary to unravel the evolution of the post-starburst phase. |
| title | Pulling back the curtain on shocks and star-formation in NGC 1266 with Gemini-NIFS |
| topic | Astrophysics of Galaxies |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.17319 |