The central kpc of edge-on AGN
  The NIR is less influenced by dust extinction than optical light. This
enables us to look to an extent through dusty regions. In addition, it is
sensitive to the mass-dominating stellar population. The combination of NIR
imaging and spectroscopy of the VLT integral field spectrograph SINFONI gives
us the opportunity to analyze several emission and absorption lines and to
investigate the stellar population and ionization mechanisms over a field of
view (FOV) of 4x4 square arcsec. We detect several emission lines ([Si VI],
Pa\alpha, Br\gamma, H_2, [Fe II]) and analyze these to disentangle the
ionization mechanisms and the kinematics of the gas. We use the absorption
features of Si I, CO(6-3) and CO(2-0) and the large wavelength range of
H+K-band for a thorough continuum synthesis. We fit a stellar, dust and
power-law contribution together with an extinction component to the H+K-band
emission. The result presents regions dominated by the different contributors
and extinction information over the full FOV.
