• 제목/요약/키워드: galaxies: individual (IRAS 08572+3915, UGC 05101, IRAS 01250+2832)

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NEAR-INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY OF CO RO-VIBRATIONAL ABSORPTION TOWARD HEAVILY OBSCURED AGNs

  • Shirahata, Mai;Nakagawa, Takao;Oyabu, Shinki;Usuda, Tomonori
    • 천문학논총
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    • 제32권1호
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    • pp.169-173
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    • 2017
  • We provide a new physical insight on the hot molecular clouds near the nucleus of the obscured AGNs. We performed near-infrared spectroscopic observations of heavily obscured AGNs in order to reveal physical characteristics of molecular clouds, especially focused on the CO fundamental ro-vibrational absorption around $4.7{\mu}m$. We have made systematic moderate-resolution spectroscopic observations toward 30 representative (U)LIRGs using the AKARI/IRC, and some of the ULIRGs showed the strong CO absorption feature. For three bright (U)LIRGs that show a steep red continuum with the deep CO absorption feature, IRAS 08572+3915, UGC 05101, and IRAS 01250+2832, we have also made high-resolution spectroscopic observations using the Subaru/IRCS. We have successfully detected many absorption lines up to highly excited rotational levels, and these lines are very deep and extremely broad. The derived physical conditions of molecular clouds are extreme; the gas temperature is as high as several 100 to a 1000 K, the $H_2$ column density is larger than $10^{22}cm^{-2}$, and the gas density is greater than $10^7cm^{-3}$. Such hot and dense molecular clouds must exist around the central engine of the AGN.