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The Keck OSIRIS Nearby AGN (KONA) Survey: AGN Fueling and Feedback

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 August 2016

Erin K. S. Hicks
Affiliation:
University of Alaska Anchorage email: ehicks@uaa.alaska.edu
Francisco Müller-Sánchez
Affiliation:
University of Colorado, Boulder
Matthew A. Malkan
Affiliation:
UCLA
Po-Chieh Yu
Affiliation:
UCLA
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In an effort to better constrain the relevant physical processes dictating the co-evolution of supermassive black holes and the galaxies in which they reside we turn to local Seyfert AGN. It is only with these local AGN that we can reach the spatial resolution needed to adequately characterize the inflow and outflow mechanisms thought to be the driving forces in establishing the relationship between black holes and their host galaxies at higher redshift. We present the first results from the KONA (Keck OSIRIS Nearby AGN) survey, which takes advantage of the integral field unit OSIRIS plus laser and natural guide star adaptive optics to probe down to scales of 5-30 parsecs in a sample of 40 local Seyfert galaxies. With these K-band data we measure the two-dimensional distribution and kinematics of the nuclear stars, molecular gas, and ionized gas within the central few hundred parsecs.

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