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Caption: Figure 1.
Left: four-color image of NGC 1266. The HST data show the disk in the F110W (blue), F140W (green), and F160W (red) filters, while the Chandra X-ray data (violet) show the hot outflow. The light blue ellipse is the D25 isophotal diameter of 1﹩\mathop{.}\limits^{{\rm{^{\prime} }}}﹩3 from D. Makarov et al. (2014). The white box is 20″ by 20″ and is the area of focus for this analysis. Right: zoom-in of the white box in the left panel to highlight the multiwavelength nature of the outflow. In blue is the broadband (0.5–7 keV) Chandra data, green is the optical Hα data from MUSE, and red is the 5 GHz radio continuum data. The white cross marks the location of the AGN (K. Nyland et al. 2013). At the distance of NGC 1266 (29 Mpc; M. Cappellari et al. 2011), 1﹩^{\prime} ﹩ is about 8.6 kpc.
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