The Close AGN Reference Survey (CARS): SOFIA detects spatially-resolved [C II] emission in the luminous AGN HE0433-1028

Busch, G., Husemann, B., Smirnova-Pinchukova, I., Eckart, A., Baum, S. A., Coombes, F., Croom, S. M., Davis, Timothy ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4932-9379, Fazeli, N., Fischer, C., Gaspari, M., Klein, R., Krumpe, M., McElroy, R., O'Dea, C. P., Perez-Torres,, M. A., Powell, M. C., Sanchez-Monge, A., Scharwachter, J., Tremblay, R. G. and Urrutia, T. 2018. The Close AGN Reference Survey (CARS): SOFIA detects spatially-resolved [C II] emission in the luminous AGN HE0433-1028. Astrophysical Journal 866 (1) , L9. 10.3847/2041-8213/aae25d

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Abstract

We report spatially resolved [C ii] λ158 μm observations of HE 0433-1028, which is the first detection of a nearby luminous active galactic nucleus (AGN; redshift 0.0355) with the Field-Imaging Far-Infrared Line Spectrometer (FIFI-LS) on board the airborne Stratospheric Observatory For Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA). We compare the spatially resolved star formation tracers [C ii], as provided by our SOFIA observations, and Hα from the Multi Unit Spectroscopic Explorer (MUSE) optical integral-field spectroscopy. We find that the [C ii] emission is mainly matching the extended star formation as traced by the extinction-corrected Hα line emission but some additional flux is present. While a larger sample is needed to statistically confirm our findings and investigate possible dependencies on AGN luminosity and star formation rate, our study underlines the necessity of collecting a spatially resolved optical–far-infrared data set for nearby AGNs, and shows that it is technically feasible to collect such data sets with FIFI-LS on board SOFIA.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Physics and Astronomy
Publisher:	American Astronomical Society
ISSN:	0004-637X
Date of First Compliant Deposit:	18 September 2018
Date of Acceptance:	17 September 2018
Last Modified:	21 Nov 2024 13:00
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/115058

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