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Title:
Organic matter in Seyfert 2 nuclei: Comparison with our Galactic center lines of sight
Authors:
Dartois, E.; Marco, O.; Muñoz-Caro, G. M.; Brooks, K.; Deboffle, D.; d'Hendecourt, L.
Affiliation:
AA(Institut d'Astrophysique Spatiale, UMR-8617, Université Paris-Sud, Bâtiment 121, 91405 Orsay, France ), AB(European Southern Observatory, Alonso de Cordova 3107, Vitacura, Santiago, Chile ), AC(Institut d'Astrophysique Spatiale, UMR-8617, Université Paris-Sud, Bâtiment 121, 91405 Orsay, France), AD(Departamento de Astronomía, Universidad de Chile, Casilla 36-D, Santiago, Chile; European Southern Observatory, Alonso de Cordova 3107, Vitacura, Santiago, Chile), AE(Institut d'Astrophysique Spatiale, UMR-8617, Université Paris-Sud, Bâtiment 121, 91405 Orsay, France), AF(Institut d'Astrophysique Spatiale, UMR-8617, Université Paris-Sud, Bâtiment 121, 91405 Orsay, France)
Publication:
Astronomy and Astrophysics, v.423, p.549-558 (2004) (A&A Homepage)
Publication Date:
08/2004
Origin:
A&A
A&A Keywords:
ISM: dust, extinction, ISM: evolution, galaxies: active, galaxies: ISM
DOI:
10.1051/0004-6361:20047067
Bibliographic Code:
2004A&A...423..549D

Abstract

We present ESO - Very Large Telescope and ESA - Infrared Space Observatory 3 to 4 μm spectra of Seyfert 2 nuclei as compared to our galactic center lines of sight. The diffuse interstellar medium probed in both environments displays the characteristic 3.4 μm aliphatic CH stretch absorptions of refractory carbonaceous material. The profile of this absorption feature is similar in all sources, indicating the CH2/CH3 ratios of the carbon chains present in the refractory components of the grains are the same in Seyfert 2 inner regions. At longer wavelengths the circumstellar contamination of most of the galactic lines of sight precludes the identification of other absorption bands arising from the groups constitutive of the aliphatics seen at 3.4 μm. The clearer continuum produced by the Seyfert 2 nuclei represents promising lines of sight to constrain the existence or absence of strongly infrared active chemical groups such as the carbonyl one, important to understand the role of oxygen insertion in interstellar grains. The Spitzer Space Telescope spectrometer will soon allow one to investigate the importance of aliphatics on a much larger extragalactic sample.

Based on observations collected at the European Southern Observatory, Chile and observations with ISO, an ESA project with instruments funded by ESA Member States.

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