Bibcode
Knapen, J. H.
Bibliographical reference
The central regions of the Galaxy and galaxies, Proceedings of the 184th symposium of the International Astronomical Union, held in Kyoto, Japan, August 18-22, 1997. Edited by Yoshiaki Sofue. Publisher: Dordrecht: Kluwer, 1998. ISBN: 079235060X, p.93
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1998
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Description
New near-infrared (NIR) observations of galaxies with circumnuclear
starbursts and of Seyfert galaxies have shown both the importance of
high-resolution imaging in the NIR, and of non-axisymmetric structures
(e.g. bars) in the process of fuelling the central regions. I will
discuss recent results of imaging surveys showing that the presence of a
bar is a necessary, but not a sufficient, condition for Seyfert
activity. I will also show new NIR images of central regions of galaxies
at spatial resolutions well below half an arcsec, using adaptive optics
techniques.