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WISDOM Project -- XIII. Feeding molecular gas to the supermassive black hole in the starburst AGN-host galaxy Fairall 49

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Oxford University Press (OUP) (2022)

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Federico Lelli, Timothy A Davis, Martin Bureau, Michele Cappellari, Lijie Liu, Ilaria Ruffa, Mark D Smith, Thomas G Williams

Abstract:

The mm-Wave Interferometric Survey of Dark Object Masses (WISDOM) is probing supermassive black holes (SMBHs) in galaxies across the Hubble sequence via molecular gas dynamics. We present the first WISDOM study of a luminous infrared galaxy with an active galactic nuclei (AGN): Fairall 49. We use new ALMA observations of the CO(2-1) line with a spatial resolution of about 80 pc together with ancillary HST imaging. We reach the following results: (1) The CO kinematics are well described by a regularly rotating gas disk with a radial inflow motion, suggesting weak feedback on the cold gas from both AGN and starburst activity; (2) The dynamically inferred SMBH mass is 1.6 +/- 0.4 (rnd) +/- 0.8 (sys) x 10^8 Msun, assuming that we have accurately subtracted the AGN and starburst light contributions, which have a luminosity of about 10^9 Lsun; (3) The SMBH mass agrees with the SMBH-stellar mass relation but is about 50 times higher than previous estimates from X-ray variability; (4) The dynamically inferred molecular gas mass is 30 times smaller than that inferred from adopting the Galactic CO-to-H_2 conversion factor (X_CO) for thermalised gas, suggesting low values of X_CO; (5) the molecular gas inflow rate increases steadily with radius and may be as high as 5 Msun/yr. This work highlights the potential of using high-resolution CO data to estimate, in addition to SMBH masses, the X_CO factor and gas inflow rates in nearby galaxies.
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WISDOM Project -- XIII. Feeding molecular gas to the supermassive black hole in the starburst AGN-host galaxy Fairall 49

(2022)

Authors:

Federico Lelli, Timothy A Davis, Martin Bureau, Michele Cappellari, Lijie Liu, Ilaria Ruffa, Mark D Smith, Thomas G Williams
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ANDES, the high resolution spectrograph for the ELT: science case, baseline design and path to construction

Proceedings of SPIE--the International Society for Optical Engineering SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics 12184 (2022) 1218424-1218424-16

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A Marconi, M Abreu, V Adibekyan, V Alberti, S Albrecht, J Alcaniz, M Aliverti, C Allende Prieto, JD Alvarado Gómez, PJ Amado, M Amate, MI Andersen, E Artigau, C Baker, V Baldini, A Balestra, SA Barnes, F Baron, SCC Barros, SM Bauer, M Beaulieu, O Bellido-Tirado, B Benneke, T Bensby, EA Bergin, K Biazzo, A Bik, JL Birkby, N Blind, I Boisse, E Bolmont, M Bonaglia, X Bonfils, F Borsa, A Brandeker, W Brandner, CH Broeg, M Brogi, D Brousseau, A Brucalassi, J Brynnel, LA Buchhave, DF Buscher, A Cabral, G Calderone, R Calvo-Ortega, BL Canto Martins, F Cantalloube, L Carbonaro, G Chauvin, B Chazelas, A-L Cheffot, YS Cheng, A Chiavassa, L Christensen, R Cirami, NJ Cook, RJ Cooke, I Coretti, S Covino, N Cowan, G Cresci, S Cristiani, V Cunha Parro, G Cupani, V D'Odorico, I de Castro Leão, A De, JR De Medeiros, F Debras, M Debus, O Demangeon, M Dessauges-Zavadsky, P Di Marcantonio, F Dionies, R Doyon, J Dunn, D Ehrenreich, JP Faria, C Feruglio, M Fisher, A Fontana, M Fumagalli, T Fusco, J Fynbo, O Gabella, W Gaessler, E Gallo, X Gao, L Genolet, M Genoni, P Giacobbe, E Giro, RS Gonçalves, O Gonzalez, JI González Hernández, F Gracia Témich, MG Haehnelt, C Haniff, A Hatzes, R Helled, HJ Hoeijmakers, P Huke, S Järvinen, A Järvinen, A Kaminski, A Korn, D Kouach, G Kowzan, L Kreidberg, M Landoni, A Lanotte, A Lavail, J Li, J Liske, C Lovis, S Lucatello, D Lunney, M MacIntosh, N Madhusudhan, L Magrini, R Maiolino, L Malo, A Man, T Marquart, EL Marques, AM Martins, CJAP Martins, P Maslowski, C Mason, E Mason, RA McCracken, P Mergo, G Micela, T Mitchell, P Mollière, M Monteiro, D Montgomery, C Mordasini, J Morin, A Mucciarelli, MT Murphy, M N'Diaye, B Neichel, AT Niedzielski, E Niemczura, L Nortmann, P Noterdaeme, N Nunes, L Oggioni, E Oliva, H Önel, L Origlia, G Östlin, E Palle, P Papaderos, G Pariani, J Peñate Castro, F Pepe, L Perreault Levasseur, P Petit, L Pino, J Piqueras, A Pollo, K Poppenhaeger, A Quirrenbach, E Rauscher, R Rebolo, EMA Redaelli, S Reffert, DT Reid, A Reiners, P Richter, M Riva, S Rivoire, C Rodríguez-López, IU Roederer, D Romano, S Rousseau, J Rowe, S Salvadori, N Santos, P Santos Diaz, J Sanz-Forcada, M Sarajlic, J-F Sauvage, S Schäfer, RP Schiavon, TM Schmidt, C Selmi, S Sivanandam, M Sordet, R Sordo, F Sortino, D Sosnowska, SG Sousa, E Stempels, KG Strassmeier, A Suárez Mascareño, A Sulich, X Sun, NR Tanvir, F Tenegi-Sanginés, S Thibault, SJ Thompson, A Tozzi, M Turbet, P Vallée, R Varas, K Venn, J-P Véran, A Verma, M Viel, G Wade, C Waring, M Weber, J Weder, B Wehbe, J Weingrill, M Woche, M Xompero, E Zackrisson, A Zanutta, MR Zapatero Osorio, M Zechmeister, J Zimara
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From assembly to the complete integration and verification of the SOXS common path

Proceedings of SPIE--the International Society for Optical Engineering SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics 12184 (2022) 1218482-1218482-8

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Kalyan Kumar Radhakrishnan Santhakumari, Federico Battaini, Riccardo Claudi, Alessandra Slemer, F Biondi, M Munari, RZ Sanchez, M Aliverti, L Oggioni, M Colapietro, D Ricci, L Lessio, M Dima, L Marafatto, S Campana, P Schipani, S D'Orsi, B Salasnich, A Baruffolo, S Ben-Ami, G Capasso, R Cosentino, F D'Alessio, P D'Avanzo, O Hershko, H Kuncarayakti, M Landoni, G Pignata, A Rubin, S Scuderi, F Vitali, D Young, J Achrén, José Antonio Araiza-Durán, Anna Brucalassi, R Bruch, Enrico Cappellaro, R Di Benedetto, A Gal-Yam, Matteo Genoni, M Hernandez, J Kotilainen, G Li Causi, S Mattila, Michael Rappaport, M Riva, S Smartt, M Stritzinger, H Venturae
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Laboratory test of the VIS detector system of SOXS for the ESO-NTT Telescope

Proceedings of SPIE--the International Society for Optical Engineering SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics 12184 (2022) 121845i-121845i-9

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Rosario Cosentino, Marcos Hernandez, Hector Ventura, Sergio Campana, Riccardo Claudi, Pietro Schipani, Matteo Aliverti, Andrea Baruffolo, Sagi Ben-Ami, Federico Biondi, Giulio Capasso, Francesco D'Alessio, Paolo D'Avanzo, Ofir Hershko, Hanindyo Kuncarayakti, Marco Landoni, Matteo Munari, Giuliano Pignata, Adam Rubin, Salvatore Scuderi, Fabrizio Vitali, David Young, Jani Achrén, José Antonio Araiza-Durán, Iair Arcavi, Anna Brucalassi, Rachel Bruch, Enrico Cappellaro, Mirko Colapietro, Massimo Della Valle, Marco De Pascale, Rosario Di Benedetto, Sergio D'Orsi, Avishay Gal-Yam, Matteo Genoni, Jari Kotilainen, Gianluca Li Causi, Laurent Marty, Seppo Mattila, Michael Rappaport, Kalyan Radhakrishnan, Davide Ricci, Marco Riva, Bernardo Salasnich, Alessandra Slemer, Stephen Smartt, Ricardo Zanmar Sanchez, Maximilian Stritzinger
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