• Active Galactic Nuclei
• AGN
• Formation Rate
• Galaxy
• Outflow
• SMBH
• Star Formation Rate
• Super Massive Black Hole

The thesis analyses data taken by the SINFONI near-infrared integral field spectrograph of the VLT telescope to search for traces of star formation on the outflow of the galaxy XID5395, a galaxy that hosts an Active Galactic Nucleus (AGN), of the Seyfert 2 type (i.e. with a torus of dust present along the line of sight). AGN galaxies are in fact able to host molecular outflows, and the gas in the outflow can cool, fragment and then form new stars. This represents a new method of star formation, different from the standard way stars form in galaxies. In total we have 20 short exposure observations of spectra in the J band and 20 in the H band. The thesis consists of a first part of noise reduction, both automated and manual, on these frames, and the reconstruction of a single long-exposure 3D data cube whose pixels contain the spectra along the Z axis, and spatial information in X and Y axis. The second part of the thesis is instead represented by the data analysis, consisting in the identification of the region in the cube where there is the outflow and fitting the spectra in it. Each pixel of the cube is classified using the BPT diagnostic diagram, which allows to separate the pixels where the gas has been excited by star formation, from the others. Finally, a reference star is used to calibrate the spectra and obtain the flux, to estimate the star formation rate and obtain the percentage of the outflowing gas that has been converted into stars.