Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Benítez, E
• Rodríguez-Espinosa, J M
• Cruz-González, I
• González-Martín, O
• Negrete, C A
• Ruschel-Dutra, D
• Gutiérrez, L
• Jiménez-Bailón, E

Titel

A possible binary AGN in Mrk 622?

Ist Teil von

• Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. Letters, 2018-02, Vol.474 (1), p.L56-L60

Ort / Verlag

Oxford University Press

Erscheinungsjahr

2018

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Abstract Mrk 622 is a Compton thick active galactic nuclei (AGN) and a double-peaked narrow emission line galaxy, thus a dual AGN candidate. In this work, new optical long-slit spectroscopic observations clearly show that this object is rather a triple peaked narrow emission line galaxy, with both blue and red shifted narrow emission lines, as well as a much narrower emission line centred at the host galaxy systemic velocity. The average velocity offset between the blue and red shifted components is ∼500 km s−1, which is producing the apparent double-peaked emission lines. These two components are in the loci of AGN in the Baldwin, Phillips & Terlevich diagrams and are found to be spatially separated by ∼76 pc. Analysis of the optical spatially resolved spectroscopic observations presented in this work favours that Mrk 622 is a system consisting of a composite AGN amidst a binary AGN candidate, likely the result of a recent merger. This notwithstanding, outflows from a starburst, or single AGN could also explain the triple nature of the emission lines.