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Chandra High Resolution Imaging of NGC 1365 and NGC 4151

Abstract

We present Chandra high resolution imaging of the circumnuclear regions of two nearby active galaxies, namely the starburst/AGN composite Seyfert 1.8 NGC 1365 and the archetypal Seyfert 1 NGC 4151. In NGC 1365, the X‐ray morphology shows a biconical soft X‐ray‐emission region extending ∼5 kpc in projection from the nucleus, coincident with the optical high‐excitation outflows. Chandra HRC imaging of the NGC 4151 nucleus resolves X‐ray emission from the 4 arcsec radio jet and the narrow line region (NLR) clouds. Our results demonstrate the unique power of spatially resolved spectroscopy with Chandra, and support previous claims that frequent jet‐ISM interaction may explain why jets in Seyfert galaxies appear small, slow, and thermally dominated.

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© 2010 American Institute of Physics. Published online 15 July 2010. This work is supported by NASA Contract NAS8-39073 (CXC), Chandra GO Grant G06-7102X and GO8-9101X. J.W. acknowledges travel support from the AAS International Travel Grant (ITG) program.

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NAS8-39073
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G06-7102X
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GO8-9101X
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