@article{10902/27733,
year = {2004},
month = {11},
url = {https://hdl.handle.net/10902/27733},
abstract = {We present integral field spectroscopy (IFS) of the central region of 3C 120. We have modeled the nuclear and host galaxy three-dimensional spectra using techniques normally applied to imaging, decoupling both components and obtaining a residual data cube. Using this residual data cube, we detected the extended emission line region associated with the radio jet. We obtained, for the first time, a clean spectrum of this region and found compelling evidence of a jet-cloud interaction. The jet compresses and splits the gas cloud, which is ionized by the active galactic nucleus (AGN ) and/or by the strong local UV photon field generated by a shock process. We cannot confirm the detection of an extended emission line region associated with the counterjet reported by Axon and coworkers.},
organization = {This project is part of the Euro3D RTN on IFS, funded by the EC under contract HPRN-CT-2002-00305. The WHT is operated on the island of La Palma by the Isaac Newton Group in the Spanish Observatorio del Roque de los Muchachos of the IAC. This project has used images obtained from the HST archive, using the ESO archiving facilities. We would like to thank R. C. Walker, who has kindly provided us with the radio maps of 3C 120. We would like to thank the anonymous referee, who has helped us to improve the quality of this paper with his/her remarks.},
publisher = {Institute of Physics Publishing},
publisher = {Astrophysical Journal, 2004, 1(I), 156-160},
title = {Clean optical spectrum of the radio jet of 3C 120},
author = {Sánchez, S.F. and Garcia-Lorenzo, B. and Mediavilla, E. and González Serrano, José Ignacio and Christensen, L.},
}