Sasmirala Individual Information for IC 1459

Description

IC 1459 is a giant elliptical galaxy at a distance of D = 30.3 Mpc (z = 0.006; [blakeslee_synthesis_2001]) with a moderately radio-loud LINER nucleus [veron-cetty_catalogue_2010]. The detection of a compact flat-spectrum radio core verifies the AGN nature of IC 1459 [slee_parsecscale_1994]. Its stellar core is counter-rotating, which indicates a past merger [franx_counterrotating_1988], and hosts one of the most massive black holes of the nearby galaxy population (log MBH∕M = 9 ± 0.4; [cappellari_counterrotating_2002]). IC 1459 was first observed in the N-band with IRTF in 1983 [sparks_infrared_1986] and thereafter with IRAS, ISO [temi_ages_2005] and Spitzer/IRAC, IRS and MIPS. In the IRAC 5.8 and 8.μm and MIPS 24 μm images, an extended nuclear structure was detected with a PA of ~ 0. Because we isolate the nuclear component in our photometric measurements, the resulting fluxes are significantly lower than the values published in [temi_spitzer_2009] for MIPS 24 μm. The IRS LR mapping-mode spectrum has a relatively low S/N but indicates silicate 10 μm and PAH 11.μm emission and an extremely blue spectral slope at short wavelengths in νFν-space. Thus, no prominent AGN contribution is evident in the MIR spectrum of IC 1459, which instead resembles more the SED of an old stellar population (compare e.g., [panuzzo_nearby_2011]). We observed IC 1459 with VISIR in two narrow N-band filters in 2009 [asmus_mid-infrared_2011] but did not detect any nuclear MIR emission. This is also the case for an additional, to our knowledge, unpublished VISIR observation from the same year. The derived upper limits are significantly below the Spitzer spectrophotometric flux levels in agreement with the latter arising from extended host emission.

Images

Optical image (DSS, red filter). Displayed are the central 4 arcmin with North being up and East to the left. The colour scaling is linear with white corresponding to the median background (BG) and black to the 0.01% pixels with the highest intensity.

Spitzer MIR images. Displayed are the inner 40 arcsec with North being up and East to the left. The colour scaling is logarithmic with white corresponding to median BG and black to the 0.1% pixels with the highest intensity. The label in the bottom left states instrument and central wavelength of the filter in micron (I: IRAC, M: MIPS).

SEDs

MIR SED. The description of the symbols in all the SED plots (where present) is the following: Grey crosses and solid lines mark the Spitzer/IRAC, MIPS and IRS data. The colour coding of the other symbols is as follows: green for COMICS, magenta for Michelle, blue for T-ReCS and red for VISIR data. Darker-coloured solid lines mark spectra of the corresponding instrument. The black filled circles mark the nuclear 12 and 18 micron continuum emission estimate from the data (where present). The ticks on the top axis mark positions of common MIR emission lines, while the light grey horizontal bars mark wavelength ranges affected by the silicate 10 and 18 micron features.

Photometry details and reduced FITS files

ObjectRA
[deg]
Dec
[deg]
FilterImageInfoλ_c
[um]
HWHM
[um]
InstrPix. size
[arcsec/pix]
T_exp
[s]
ModeChop Throw
[arcsec]
Chop Angle
[deg]
Rot
[deg]
Prog IdCal. StarCal. DateDate Obs.Factor
[mJy/ct]
Err. Factor
[mJy/ct]
Cal. Flux
[mJy]
Upper Lim. Gauss?F_Gauss
[mJy]
E(F_Gauss)
[mJy]
Upper Lim. PSF?F_PSF
[mJy]
E(F_PSF)
[mJy]
Cal. Maj.
[arcsec]
Cal. Min.
[arcsec]
Cal. PA.
[deg]
Maj. Ax
[arcsec]
Min. Ax
[arcsec]
Pos. Ang.
[deg]
IC 1459344.294167-36.462222NEII_1[Details]12.270.18VISIR0.0751443.0PARA8.045.00.0083.B-0536(C)HD1980482009-06-06T09:38:53Z2009-06-06T09:43:12Z0.07550.000858973.4True16.7N/ATrue16.7N/A0.340.3284.0N/AN/AN/A
IC 1459344.294167-36.462222PAH2[Details]11.250.59VISIR0.075362.0PARA8.045.00.0083.B-0536(C)HD1980482009-06-06T09:28:48Z2009-06-06T10:13:26Z0.018880.0002611031.1True12.2N/ATrue12.2N/A0.30.2924.0N/AN/AN/A
IC 1459344.294167-36.462222PAH2_2[Details]11.880.37VISIR0.075903.0PERP8.00.00.0384.B-0943(A)HD2179022009-12-04T00:23:02Z2009-12-04T00:36:00Z0.024730.000585709.2True14.9N/ATrue14.9N/A0.390.3847.0N/AN/AN/A