The structure of the central disk of NGC 1068: A clumpy disk model

NGC 1068 is one of the best-studied Seyfert II galaxies, for which the black hole mass has been determined from the Doppler velocities of water maser. We show that the standard cc-disk model of NGC 1068 gives disk mass between the radii of 0.65 and 1.1 pc (the region from which water maser emission is detected) to be about 7 x 10(7) M-circle dot (for alpha = 0.1), more than 4 times the black hole mass, and a Toomre Q-parameter for the disk is similar to 0.001. This disk is therefore highly self-gravitating and is subject to large-amplitude density fluctuations. We conclude that the standard alpha-viscosity description for the structure of the accretion disk is invalid for NGC 1068. In this paper, we develop a new model for the accretion disk. The disk is considered to be composed of gravitationally bound clumps; accretion in this clumped disk model arises because of gravitational interaction of clumps with each other and the dynamical frictional drag exerted on clumps from the stars in the central region of the galaxy. The clumped disk model provides a self-consistent description of the observations of NGC 1068. The computed temperature and density are within the allowed parameter range for water maser emission, and the rotational velocity in the disk falls off as r(-0.35).