The Nucleus of Centaurus A with NACO

Bibcode
2005sao..conf..311H
DOI
10.1007/10828557_54
Häring, Nadine; Rix, Hans-Walter; Hartung, Markus; Prieto, Almudena; Lenzen, Rainer; Meisenheimer, Klaus
Bibliographical reference

Science with Adaptive Optics, Proceedings of the ESO Workshop Held at Garching, Germany, 16-19 September 2003. Edited by W. Brandner and M. E. Kasper. 387 p. Library of Congress Catalog Card No. 200592215. ISBN: 3-540-25034-4. Published by Springer, Berlin 2005, p.311

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6
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0
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Description
At less than 4 Mpc away, Centaurus A (NGC 5128) is the nearest massive elliptical galaxy, the nearest radio galaxy, and the nearest recent merger. It is the ideal laboratory to study the connection between merging, massive black holes, the source of radio jets and merger-induced star formation in detail. Using NAOS-CONICA, guiding on the dust-shrouded nucleus of Cen A, a comprehensive study of the stellar distribution and dynamics in the inner few arcseconds of Cen A is carried out. At unprecedented resolution of ~1 pc we see a single point source in K-band of less than 1.1 pc size.
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