NGC 4151/STIS
STIS Key Project: NGC 4151

One of the STIS Instrument Definition Team's (IDT) Internal Key Projects was to obtain spectra of the nucleus and narrow line region (NLR) of NGC 4151. The links below highlight some of the interesting results.

Slitless Spectroscopy
Low Resolution Longslit Spectroscopy
High Resolution Echelle Spectroscopy
Medium Resolution Longslit Spectroscopy

NGC 4151 Key Project Publications

Space Telescope press release on ERO slitless observations

"Gas Cloud Kinematics near the Nucleus of NGC 4151", Hutchings et al. ApJ, 492, L115, 1998

"High-Velocity Line Emission in the Narrow-Line Region of NGC 4151" Hutchings et al. AJ, 118, 210, 1999

"The Resolved Narrow-Line Region in NGC 4151", Kaiser et al. ApJ, 528, 260, 2000

"Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph Long-Slit Spectroscopy of the Narrow-Line Region of NGC 4151. I. Kinematics and Emission-Line Ratios", Nelson et al. ApJ, 531, 257, 2000

"Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph Long-Slit Spectroscopy of the Narrow-Line Region of NGC 4151. II. Physical Conditions along Position Angle 221", Kraemer S., et al. ApJ, 531, 278, 2000

"A Kinematic Model for the Narrow-Line Region in NGC 4151" Crenshaw, D. M., et al. AJ, 120, 173, 2000

"Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph Echelle Observations of NGC 4151: Variable Ionization of the Intrinsic UV Absorbers" Crenshaw, D. M. et al. ApJL 545, 27, 2000