Sasmirala Individual Information for NGC 1667

Description

NGC 1667 is a low-inclination infrared-luminous spiral galaxy at a redshift of z = 0.0152 (D ~ 67.8 Mpc) with a Sy 2 nucleus [veron-cetty_catalogue_2010], which is also detected as compact core in radio (e.g., [ho_radio_2001]). After its detection in IRAS, NGC 1667 was measured in the N-band but uncertainly detected with the MMT [maiolino_new_1995]. The nucleus remained undetected in the subarcsecond-resolution N-band imaging with Palomar 5 m/MIRLIN [gorjian_10_2004]. NGC 1667 was also observed with ISO [clavel_2.5-11_2000, ramos_almeida_mid-infrared_2007] and Spitzer/IRAC, IRS and MIPS. In the corresponding IRAC and MIPS images, a compact nucleus embedded within diffuse host emission and surrounded by further spiral-like host emission was detected. The latter is brighter than the nucleus in the IRAC 8 μm and MIPS 24 μm images. We measure the nuclear component only providing IRAC 5.8 and 8.μm fluxes significantly lower than the values in [gallimore_infrared_2010] but in rough agreement with the IRS LR mapping-mode spectrum. The IRS spectrum suffers from low S/N but indicates prominent PAH emission and a red spectral slope in νFν-space, reminiscent of star formation (see also [wu_spitzer/irs_2009, tommasin_spitzer-irs_2010, gallimore_infrared_2010]). NGC 1667 was observed with T-ReCS in the broad N filter in 2004 (unpublished, to our knowledge), and with VISIR in two narrow N-band filters in 2009 [asmus_mid-infrared_2011]. In the T-ReCS image, a compact MIR nucleus is weakly detected, while it remained undetected in the VISIR images. The MIR nucleus is possibly marginally resolved with a FWHM(major axis)~ 0.52arcsec ~ 170 pc and a PA~ 54. However, at least a second epoch with a detection in the MIR at subarcsecond resolution is required to confirm this extension. The nuclear N flux is ~ 43% lower than the Spitzer spectrophotometry, which indicates that star formation dominates the total MIR emission in the central kiloparsec of NGC 1667.

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).

Subarcsecond-resolution MIR images sorted by increasing filter central wavelength. Displayed are the inner 4 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 75% of the highest intensity of all images in units of sig_bg. The inset image (where present; either bottom or top right) shows the central arcsecond of the PSF from the calibrator star, scaled to match the science target. The labels in the bottom left state instrument and filter names (C: COMICS, M: Michelle, T: T-ReCS, V: VISIR).

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]
NGC 166772.154583-6.320000PAH2[Details]11.250.59VISIR0.075362.0PARA8.045.00.0083.B-0536(A)HD410472009-09-07T09:07:12Z2009-09-07T08:45:36Z0.015260.000477210.3True21.5N/ATrue21.5N/A0.430.3598.0N/AN/AN/A
NGC 166772.154583-6.320000NEII_1NGC1667_NEII_1_2009-09-07T08-26.fits[Details]12.270.18VISIR0.0751803.0PARA8.045.00.0083.B-0536(A)HD410472009-09-07T09:17:17Z2009-09-07T08:26:53Z0.055270.000865865.6True13.4N/ATrue13.3N/A0.410.37105.0N/AN/AN/A
NGC 166772.154583-6.320000NNGC1667_N_2004-10-27T04-41.fits[Details]10.362.64TRECS0.09717.0PARA15.0-90.00.0GS-2004A-Q-14HD41282004-10-27T03:36:00Z2004-10-27T04:40:48Z0.007970.0001152048.0False6.01.4False4.61.40.420.41153.00.520.4354.0