Speaker
Richard Davies
(MPE)
Description
There is increasing evidence that Seyfert nuclei in local galaxies do not co-exist with active phases of star formation in their local environment. However, the question of whether AGN are associated with post-starbursts is not settled. I will show the first results from a new project to tackle this issue by looking for direct evidence of AGB stars close around AGN. I will then discuss recent observations of the molecular gas content in these regions, which shed light on the physical properties of the clouds. These may help to understand why, despite the abundance of gas in the central tens of parsecs, the clouds are not forming stars.
Author
Richard Davies
(MPE)