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Gas Disks and Supermassive Black Holes in Nearby Radio Galaxies

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next section.<br />

Inflow is important <strong>in</strong> allow<strong>in</strong>g fuel to reach the central eng<strong>in</strong>e <strong>and</strong> processes that<br />

take place as the disk settles may be important <strong>in</strong> allow<strong>in</strong>g that <strong>in</strong>flow to occur -<br />

particularly turbulent viscosity <strong>in</strong> the disk or dynamical friction between clumps of<br />

gas (for example Wada, 2004; Shlosman et al., 1990).<br />

4.4.3 Drivers of unsettled motion<br />

There are several sources from which we might expect energy to get deposited <strong>in</strong>to the<br />

gas <strong>and</strong> drive motions out of the settled major plane. Amongst these are <strong>in</strong>teractions<br />

with the Jets, twists <strong>and</strong> warps <strong>in</strong> the disks <strong>and</strong> activity result<strong>in</strong>g from starbursts<br />

<strong>and</strong> mergers.<br />

Interactions with jets: In four of the sample galaxies we have located <strong>in</strong>stances<br />

where a disturbance occurs <strong>in</strong> the gas at the location correspond<strong>in</strong>g to the po<strong>in</strong>t<br />

where the position angle of the radio jet crosses the side slit positions. With the<br />

signal-to-noise of the data that we have available this may be merely a co<strong>in</strong>cidence<br />

(<strong>and</strong> the statistics are <strong>in</strong>deed very poor). However, we present these few examples<br />

here as possible h<strong>in</strong>ts that we may be able to track down at least one source of<br />

non-gravitational disturbance.<br />

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