Bibcode
Häring, Nadine; Rix, Hans-Walter; Hartung, Markus; Prieto, Almudena; Lenzen, Rainer; Meisenheimer, Klaus
Referencia bibliográfica
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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2005
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Descripción
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.