Tuesday, 9 December, 1997 at 3pm

Peter Papadopoulos - Univ. of Toronto

"Molecular gas in Seyfert Galaxies"

ABSTRACT: "Some early work suggested that Seyfert 2 galaxies have more molecular gas, star formation than Seyfert 1's. If this is correct it implies a causal link between phenomena on vastly different scales, from a <10pc obscuring torus to the distribution of the molecular gas on >1 kpc scale. Is this true and what is the state of the gas in a prominent member of the Seyfert list, the archetypal Seyfert 2/starburst galaxy NGC 1068?"