PROBING THE PHYSICS OF NARROW LINE REGIONS IN ACTIVE GALAXIES. II. THE SIDING SPRING SOUTHERN SEYFERT SPECTROSCOPIC SNAPSHOT SURVEY (S7)

Journal Article · Sun Mar 15 00:00:00 EDT 2015 · Astrophysical Journal, Supplement Series

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1088/0067-0049/217/1/12· OSTI ID:22520079

Dopita, Michael A.; Davies, Rebecca; Kewley, Lisa; Hampton, Elise; Sutherland, Ralph ^[1]; Shastri, Prajval; Kharb, Preeti; Jose, Jessy; Bhatt, Harish; Ramya, S. ^[2]; Scharwächter, Julia ^[3]; Jin, Chichuan ^[4]; Banfield, Julie ^[5]; Zaw, Ingyin ^[6]; Juneau, Stéphanie ^[7]; James, Bethan ^[8]; Srivastava, Shweta ^[9]

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1. RSAA, Australian National University, Cotter Road, Weston Creek, ACT 2611 (Australia)
2. Indian Institute of Astrophysics, Koramangala 2 B Block, Bangalore 560034 (India)
3. LERMA, Observatoire de Paris, CNRS, UMR 8112, 61 Avenue de l’Observatoire, F-75014 Paris (France)
4. Qian Xuesen Laboratory for Space Technology, Beijing (China)
5. CSIRO Astronomy and Space Science, P.O. Box 76, Epping NSW, 1710 Australia (Australia)
6. New York University (Abu Dhabi), 70 Washington Square South, New York, NY 10012 (United States)
7. CEA-Saclay, DSM/IRFU/SAp, F-91191 Gif-sur-Yvette (France)
8. Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge University, Madingley Road, Cambridge CB3 0HA (United Kingdom)
9. Astronomy and Astrophysics Division, Physical Research Laboratory, Ahmedabad 380009 (India)

Here we describe the Siding Spring Southern Seyfert Spectroscopic Snapshot Survey (S7) and present results on 64 galaxies drawn from the first data release. The S7 uses the Wide Field Spectrograph mounted on the ANU 2.3 m telescope located at the Siding Spring Observatory to deliver an integral field of 38 × 25 arcsec at a spectral resolution of R = 7000 in the red (530–710 nm), and R = 3000 in the blue (340–560 nm). From these data cubes we have extracted the narrow-line region spectra from a 4 arcsec aperture centered on the nucleus. We also determine the Hβ and [O iii] λ5007 fluxes in the narrow lines, the nuclear reddening, the reddening-corrected relative intensities of the observed emission lines, and the Hβ and [O iii] λ5007 luminosities determined from spectra for which the stellar continuum has been removed. We present a set of images of the galaxies in [O iii] λ5007, [N ii] λ6584, and Hα, which serve to delineate the spatial extent of the extended narrow-line region and also to reveal the structure and morphology of the surrounding H ii regions. Finally, we provide a preliminary discussion of those Seyfert 1 and Seyfert 2 galaxies that display coronal emission lines in order to explore the origin of these lines.

• OSTI ID: 22520079
• Journal Information: Astrophysical Journal, Supplement Series, Vol. 217, Issue 1; Other Information: Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); ISSN 0067-0049
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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79 ASTROPHYSICS
COSMOLOGY AND ASTRONOMY
APERTURES
ELEMENT ABUNDANCE
GALAXY NUCLEI
HYDROGEN
IMAGES
LUMINOSITY
MORPHOLOGY
RESOLUTION
SEYFERT GALAXIES
TELESCOPES