The Dynamical Interaction of AGN with their Galaxian Environments.pdfVIP

2 0 THE DYNAMICAL INTERACTION OF AGN 0 2 WITH THEIR GALAXIAN ENVIRONMENTS g u A Michael A. Dopita Research School of Astronomy Astrophysics 3 2 The Australian National University Michael.Dopita@anu.edu.au 1 v 9 2 Abstract 4 Jet-driven shocks are responsible for an important fraction of the 8 emission of the narrow-line regions (NLRs) in many classes of AGN. 0 However, this cannot explain all observations. It is clear that the re- 2 maining sources are photoionised by the active nucleus. The 2-d hy- 0 drodynamic models from the RSAA group support an evolutionary sce- / h nario whereby the shock-excited NLRs are initially jet-driven but later, p ionizing photons from the central engine replace shocks as the main ex- - citation mechanism and shock induced star formation may also become o important. In their photoionized phase, dusty and radiation-pressure r t dominated evolution produces a self-regulated NLR spectrum. This s model aso explains the coronal emission lines and fast (3000 km s−1) a : outflows seen in some Seyferts. v i X r a 1. Shock-Driven Radio Galaxies There is increasing evidence that the narrow-line regions (NLRs) asso- ciated with many classes of act