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UV/Optical Nuclear Activity in the gE Galaxy NGC 1399

R. W. O'Connell·J. R. Martin·J. D. Crane·D. Burstein·R. C. Bohlin·W. B. Landsman·I. Freedman·R. T. Rood
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Using HST/STIS, we have detected far-ultraviolet nuclear activity in the giant elliptical galaxy NGC 1399, the central and brightest galaxy in the Fornax I cluster. The source reached a maximum observed far-UV luminosity of \~1.2 x 10e39 ergs/s in January 1999. It was detectable in earlier HST archival images in 1996 (B band) but not in 1991 (V band) or 1993 (UV). It faded by a factor of ~4x by mid-2000. The source is almost certainly associated with the low luminosity AGN responsible for the radio emission in NGC 1399. The properties of the outburst are remarkably similar to the UV-bright nuclear transient discovered earlier in NGC 4552 by Renzini et al. (1995). The source is much fainter than expected from its Bondi accretion rate (estimated from Chandra high resolution X-ray images), even in the context of "radiatively inefficient accretion flow" models, and its variability also appears inconsistent with such models. High spatial resolution UV monitoring is a valuable means to study activity in nearby LLAGNs.

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R. W. O'Connell, J. R. Martin, J. D. Crane, D. Burstein, R. C. Bohlin, W. B. Landsman, I. Freedman, R. T. Rood. 2005-09-12. UV/Optical Nuclear Activity in the gE Galaxy NGC 1399. https://doi.org/10.1086/497678

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