THE DISCOVERY OF 5 NEW H2O MEGAMASERS IN ACTIVE GALAXIES

被引:76
作者
BRAATZ, JA
WILSON, AS
HENKEL, C
机构
[1] MAX PLANCK INST RADIOASTRON,D-53121 BONN,GERMANY
[2] SPACE TELESCOPE SCI INST,BALTIMORE,MD 21218
关键词
GALAXIES; ACTIVE; NUCLEI; SEYFERT; ISM; MOLECULES; MASERS; RADIO LINES;
D O I
10.1086/187692
中图分类号
P1 [天文学];
学科分类号
0704 ;
摘要
H2O megamasers with (isotropic) luminosities between 60 and 200 L(.) (H-0 = 75 km s(-1) Mpc(-1)) have been detected in the Seyfert 2 galaxies Mrk 1, Mrk 1210, and NGC 5506 and in the LINERs NGC 1052 and NGC 2639. No megamasers have been found in Seyfert 1's. The galaxies have redshifts between 1500 and 4800 km s(-1) and are the most distant H2O sources reported to date. NGC 1052 is also the first elliptical galaxy known to contain an H2O maser. The intensity distribution of an H2O five-point map obtained toward NGC 5506 shows that the H2O emission is pointlike compared to the 40'' telescope beam. The lack of CO emission in NGC 1052 implies a conservative lower limit to the H2O brightness temperature of 1000 K, thus ruling out a thermal origin for the H2O emission. The success of this survey relative to other recent searches makes it evident that H2O megamasers are preferentially found in galaxies with active nuclei.
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页码:L99 / L102
页数:4
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