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The rotating wind of the quasar PG 1700+518
(Nature Publishing Group, 2008-02-27)
It is now widely accepted that most galaxies undergo an active phase, during which a
central super-massive black hole generates vast radiant luminosities through the
gravitational accretion of gas1,2. Winds launched from ...
The jet and circumnuclear environment of 3C 293
(Astrophysical Journal, 2006-03-01)
We present the new HST near-infrared polarimetry, broad and narrow-band imaging,
and MERLIN 4.5GHz Multi-Frequency Synthesis radio imaging of 3C 293, a unique radio galaxy whose host is an obvious merger remnant, in an ...
The warped nuclear disk of radio galaxy 3C 449
(Astrophysical Journal, 2006)
Among radio galaxies containing nuclear dust disks, the bipolar jet axis is generally observed to be perpendicular to the disk major axis. The FR I radio source 3C 449 is an outlier to this statistical
majority, as it ...
The nature of the HE0450-2958 system
(Blackwell Publishing, 2005-11-10)
Magain et al. (2005) argued that the host galaxy of the quasar in HE0450-2958 is substantially under-luminous given the likely mass of its nuclear black hole. Using kinematical information from the spectra of the quasar ...
Equatorial scattering and the structure of the broad-line region in Seyfert nuclei: Evidence for a rotating disc
(Blackwell Publishing: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2005-05)
We present detailed scattering models confirming that distinctive variations in polarization across the broad Halpha line, which are observed in a significant fraction of Seyfert 1 galaxies, can be understood in terms of ...
Supermassive black hole mass measurements for NGC 1300 and NGC 2748 based on HST [Hubble Space Telescope] emission-line gas kinematics
(Blackwell Publishing: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2005-05)
We present Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph emission-line spectra of the central regions of the spiral galaxies NGC 1300 and NGC 2748. From the derived kinematics of the nuclear gas we have found evidence for central ...
High resolution studies of radio sources in the Hubble Deep and Flanking Fields
(Blackwell Publishing: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2005-04)
Eighteen days of MERLIN data and 42 hours of A-array VLA data at 1.4 GHz have been combined to image a 10-arcmin field centred on the Hubble Deep and Flanking Fields (HDF and HFF). A complete sample of 92 radio sources ...
Seyferts on the edge: Polar scattering and orientation-dependent polarization in Seyfert 1 nuclei
(Blackwell Publishing: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2004-05)
We have identified 12 Seyfert 1 galaxies that exhibit optical polarization spectra similar to those of Seyfert 2 galaxies in which polarized broad-lines are detected. We present new spectropolarimetric observations of 3 ...
Spectroscopy of the near-nuclear regions of Cygnus A: Estimating the mass of the supermassive black hole
(Blackwell Publishing: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2003-07)
We use a combination of high spatial resolution optical and near-IR spectroscopic data to make a detailed study of the kinematics of the NLR gas in the near-nuclear regions of the powerful, FRII radio galaxy Cygnus A ...
Observations of the neutral gas and dust in the radio galaxy 3C305
(Blackwell Publishing: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2003-01)
We present MERLIN and Hubble Space Telescope (HST) observations of the central region of the nearby radio galaxy 3C305 and use them to study the gas and dust in this object. TheMERLIN observations are of neutral hydrogen ...