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JWST Reveals How Black Holes are Fed: Kiloparsec-scale Multiphase Filaments Feed Subkiloparsec Circumnuclear Disks

  • Authors: Julie Hlavacek-Larrondo, Hyunseop Choi, 현섭 최, Minghao Guo, 明浩 郭, Mathieu Marquis, Olivia Pereira, G. Mark Voit, Loïc Albert, Jorge Barrera-Ballesteros, Rebecca E. A. Canning, Francesco D'Eugenio, Megan Donahue, Andrew C. Fabian, Gary J. Ferland, John S. Gallagher, Marie-Lou Gendron-Marsolais, Pierre Guillard, Nina Hatch, Ralf Kotulla, Yuan Li, Roberto Maiolino, Allison Man, Michael A. McDonald, B. R. McNamara, Valeria Olivares, Marine Prunier, Michael Reefe, Christopher S. Reynolds, Carter Rhea, Annabelle Richard-Laferrière, Helen R. Russell, Philippe Salomé, Ming Sun, Prathamesh Tamhane, Gregory Taylor, Auriane Thilloy, Grant R. Tremblay, Benjamin Vigneron, Stephen A. Walker

Julie Hlavacek-Larrondo et al 2026 The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1006 .

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Caption: Figure 3.

PV diagrams. (a) v50 map with slit positions and extraction directions (green circle marks AGN position from A. C. Fabian et al. 2016). (b) PV diagram along the blue slit (CND), showing velocities rapidly declining to systemic on both sides. (c) PV diagram along the green slit, highlighting the filament’s kinematic connection to the CND. Velocities are relative to systemic (dashed horizontal line); contours start at 3σ and increase by 1σ. The scale bar shows the NIRSpec/IFU spatial resolution. (d)–(e) Example Paα spectra from the receding (red) and approaching (blue) sides, extracted from the regions and positions marked in (a) and (b). The continuum is shown with the gray curves. (f) Snapshot of 3D MHD simulated velocity field within an NIRSpec/IFU FOV, same as in Figure 2 with slit position shown with the green rectangle. (g) PV diagram along the green slit, highlighting the filament’s kinematic connection to the 3D MHD CND.

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