Peering through the Dust: Evidence for a Supermassive Black Hole at the Nucleus of Centaurus a from Vlt Ir Spectroscopy
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We used the near infrared spectrometer ISAAC at the ESO Very Large Telescope to map the velocity field of Centaurus A (NGC 5128) at several position angles and locations in the central 20 of the galaxy. The high spatial resolution (∼ 0. 5) velocity fields Based on observations collected at the European Southern Observatory, Paranal, Chile (ESO Program 63.P0271A) Affiliated to Space Science Department of ESA
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