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The Nature of galaxie s LIN ER Robert Singh, Glenn v. d. Ven & Knud Jahnke CALIFA ~600 galaxies, diameter selected, 0.005<z<0.03 Spatial sampling ~2 0.5-1 kpc Spectral resolution R~850 (v500)/ ~1650


  1. The Nature of galaxie � s LIN ER Robert Singh, Glenn v. d. Ven & Knud Jahnke

  2. CALIFA • ~600 galaxies, diameter selected, 0.005<z<0.03 • Spatial sampling ~2” ≈ 0.5-1 kpc • Spectral resolution R~850 (v500)/ ~1650 (v1200) • Wavelength coverage 3400 – 7300 Å • 3 σ limiting surface brightness ~23.0 mag/arcsec 2 Robert Singh

  3. LIN ER s L ow I onisation N uclear E mission-line R egion • • possible ionisation sources: � - low luminosity AGN - hot old stars (post-AGB) � - shocks (mergers, outflows) � • general properties: - old stellar pops - line emission from weakly ionised atoms - fraction with central X-ray - > 50% of the AGN population Robert Singh

  4. [OIII] H α H α H α [NII] [OI] [SII] H β Robert Singh

  5. 85,224 SDSS galaxies Robert Singh

  6. 257 CALIFA galaxies Robert Singh

  7. 1 CALIFA galaxy NGC 2916 Robert Singh

  8. BPT maps SF Seyfert Robert Singh

  9. BPT maps NGC 5157 SF LINER Robert Singh

  10. LI N ER emission Singh et al. 2013 10 1 normalised H alpha flux 10 0 10 -1 10 -2 10 -3 Singh et al. 2013 0 10 20 30 40 radius [arcsec] Robert Singh

  11. UGC11680 SDSS Robert Singh

  12. UGC11680 BPT map Robert Singh

  13. UGC11680 Ha EW map EW Robert Singh

  14. UGC11680 Ha EW map Histogram of LINER bins EW [Å] Robert Singh

  15. EW(Ha) Robert Singh

  16. star-formation histories Robert Singh

  17. star-formation histories Seyfert like emission 6.76 Gyr Robert Singh

  18. star-formation histories LINER like emission 4.47 Gyr Robert Singh

  19. star-formation histories SF & intermediate emission 3.16 Gyr Robert Singh

  20. star-formation histories light weighted log(age) Robert Singh

  21. conclusion • Explanation of low-power AGN is not reconcilable with our results. • LINER signatures are not a good tool for finding AGN. � • LINERs can host an AGN. � • AGN activity does not explain non-nuclear LINER emission. • LINER emission does not imply an AGN origin • Ample evidence for hot old stars - spatial extend of LINER like emission - spatial correlation with low EW(Ha) - spatial correlation with older stellar ages Robert Singh

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