The Sombrero galaxy ? III . Ionised gas and dust in the central 200 pc : a nuclear bar ?
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We present the results of new 3D TIGER spectro-scopic observations and archived HST/WFPC2 and NICMOS images of the central region of M 104. The [N ii]+Hα images reveal the presence of a nuclear spiral structure, and the gaseous kinematics in the central arcsecond shows evidence for kine-matical decoupling of the central peak. A straight nuclear dust lane, with a weak symmetric counterpart, is seen in the V − I and V − H colour maps. These results hint for the presence of a strong nuclear bar, that would be located inside the inner Linblad resonance of the large-scale bar discussed by Emsellem (1995).
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