Chandra High Resolution Imaging of NGC 1365 and NGC 4151

July 2010 • 2010AIPC.1248..519W

Authors • Wang, Junfeng • Fabbiano, G. • Elvis, M. • Risaliti, G. • Karovska, M. • Zezas, A. • Mazzarella, J. M. • Lord, S. • Howell, J. H. • Mundell, C. G.

Abstract • We present Chandra high resolution imaging of the circumnuclear regions of two nearby active galaxies, namely the starburst/AGN composite Seyfert 1.8 NGC 1365 and the archetypal Seyfert 1 NGC 4151. In NGC 1365, the X-ray morphology shows a biconical soft X-ray-emission region extending ~5 kpc in projection from the nucleus, coincident with the optical high-excitation outflows. Chandra HRC imaging of the NGC 4151 nucleus resolves X-ray emission from the 4 arcsec radio jet and the narrow line region (NLR) clouds. Our results demonstrate the unique power of spatially resolved spectroscopy with Chandra, and support previous claims that frequent jet-ISM interaction may explain why jets in Seyfert galaxies appear small, slow, and thermally dominated.

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• ELECTR https://doi.org/10.1063%2F1.3475330