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ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL
Volume 661, Issue 2, Pages L143-L146Publisher
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1086/518807
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galaxies : active; galaxies : Seyfert; galaxies : starburst
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Feedback from black hole activity is widely believed to play a key role in regulating star formation and black hole growth. A long-standing issue is the relation between star formation and the fueling of the supermassive black holes in active galactic nuclei (AGNs). We compile a sample of 57 Seyfert galaxies to tackle this issue. We estimate the surface densities of gas and star formation rates in circumnuclear regions (CNRs). Comparing them with the well-known Kennicutt-Schmidt (K-S) law, we find that the star formation rates (SFRs) in the CNRs of most Seyfert galaxies are suppressed in this sample. Feedback is suggested to explain the suppressed SFRs.
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