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A Theoretical Three-dimensional Diagram to Separate Star Formation, Active Galactic Nuclei, and Shocks in Galaxies

  • Authors: Peixin Zhu, Lisa J. Kewley, Ralph S. Sutherland, Kathryn Grasha

Peixin Zhu et al 2025 The Astrophysical Journal 988 .

  • Provider: AAS Journals

Caption: Figure 7.

2D maps of [O III] λ5007 (top panels), Hα (middle panels), and [N II] λ6584 (bottom panels) emission-line fluxes of the MUSE IFU data for NGC 5728. From left to right, each panel contains the emission-line flux maps contributed by H II, AGN, fast shocks, pure shocks, and the sum of four mechanisms in total. The units of fluxes in this figure are × 10−16 erg s−1 cm−2. The WiFes IFU was rotated by 135 in the anticlockwise direction in the observation of NGC 5728. The white arrows in the upper right corner denote north and east in the sky. The spaxel with the highest [O III] luminosity, indicating the galaxy center, is marked with a magenta cross. The solid and dashed white circles in the H II–contributed Hα flux map indicate the nuclear region with a radius of 2 and 6, respectively.

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