Streaming Motions Towards the Supermassive Black Hole in NGC 1097
Kambiz Fathi, Thaisa Storchi-Bergmann, Rogemar A. Riffel, Claudia Winge, David J. Axon, Andrew Robinson, Alessandro Capetti, Alessandro Marconi
Abstract
We have used GMOS-IFU and high resolution HST-ACS observations to map, in unprecedented detail, the gas velocity field and structure within the 0.7 kpc circumnuclear ring of the SBb LINER/Seyfert 1 galaxy NGC 1097. We find clear evidence of radial streaming motions associated with spiral structures leading to the unresolved (<3.5 parsecs) nucleus, which we interpret as part of the fueling chain by which gas is transported to the nuclear starburst and supermassive black hole.
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