Pulling back the curtain on shocks and star-formation in NGC 1266 with
Gemini-NIFS
Pulling back the curtain on shocks and star-formation in NGC 1266 with
Gemini-NIFS
We present Gemini near-infrared integral field spectrograph (NIFS) K-band observations of the central 400 pc of NGC 1266, a nearby (D$\approx$30 Mpc) post-starburst galaxy with a powerful multi-phase outflow and a shocked ISM. We detect 7 H$_2$ ro-vibrational emission lines excited thermally to $T$$\sim$2000 K, and weak Br$\gamma$ emission, consistent …