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MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY
Volume 524, Issue 1, Pages 207-223Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stad1896
Keywords
shock waves; galaxies: general; galaxies: kinematics and dynamics; galaxies: star formation
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In this study, we use VLT/MUSE integral-field spectroscopic data to search for extended coherent shocks that drive gas inflows in the centres of galaxies, focusing on the barred spiral galaxy NGC 1097. We explore different techniques to identify these shocks, considering the potential distortions caused by inaccurate velocity extraction and other factors like rotational flow and stellar outflows. By including multiple components in the emission-line fits and examining differences in the LOSVD moments, we are able to reveal the presence of continuous shocks in the inward regions of NGC 1097, supporting the nuclear spiral models.
Using VLT/MUSE integral-field spectroscopic data for the barred spiral galaxy NGC 1097, we explore techniques that can be used to search for extended coherent shocks that can drive gas inflows in centres of galaxies. Such shocks should appear as coherent velocity jumps in gas kinematic maps, but this appearance can be distorted by inaccurate extraction of the velocity values and dominated by the global rotational flow and local perturbations like stellar outflows. We include multiple components in the emission-line fits, which corrects the extracted velocity values and reveals emission associated with AGN outflows. We show that removal of the global rotational flow by subtracting the circular velocity of a fitted flat disc can produce artefacts that obscure signatures of the shocks in the residual velocities if the inner part of the disc is warped or if gas is moving around the centre on elongated (non-circular) trajectories. As an alternative, we propose a model-independent method which examines differences in the LOSVD moments of H & alpha; and [N II]& lambda;6583. This new method successfully reveals the presence of continuous shocks in the regions inward from the nuclear ring of NGC 1097, in agreement with nuclear spiral models.
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