your ID: 0236 
First Name: Richard 
Last Name: Davies 
Affiliation: Max Planck Institut fuer extraterrestrische Physik 
Title: Eddington limited starbursts in the central 10pc of AGN 
Authors: R. Davies, R. Genzel, L. Tacconi, F. Mueller Sanchez, S. Friedrich, A. Sternberg 
Topic: 9 
Session: oral 
Abstract: We present results from a survey of nearby AGN using the near infrared 
adaptive optics integral field spectrograph SINFONI. These data enable us to probe 
the distribution and kinematics of the gas and stars at spatial resolutions as small as 
0.085arcsec. We find strong evidence for recent but short lived starbursts residing in 
very dense nuclear disks; on scales of less than 10pc these reach Eddington-limited 
luminosities, perhaps accounting for their short duration. And we show that there may 
be a relation between the age of the starburst and the accretion rate onto the AGN. 
In addition, for NGC1068 at a resolution of 6pc, we present direct observations of 
molecular gas close around the AGN which we identify with the nuclear obscuring material.