Contribution
Ionisation cone in Centaurus A
Presenter: Joss Bland-Hawthorn (University of Sydney)
Abstract: We have known for more than twenty years that the dust band around Centaurus A is a severely warped, thin gaseous disk seen in projection. Recent observations with the Taurus Tunable Filter and the SPIRAL IFU have identified high excitation gas above and below the thin disk. This gas is evidence for a large-scale wind from the nucleus. We discuss the extent to which the wind is associated with the formation mechanism of the optical / radio / X-ray jet.