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658 GHz亚毫米波振激水脉泽

658 GHz Vibrationally-Excited Water Masers with the Submillimeter Array

T. R. Hunter, K. H. Young, R. D. Christensen, M. A. Gurwell

摘要:

1995年在加州理工学院亚毫米波天文台(CSO)发现,在富氧巨星和超巨星中可以看到658 GHz(455微米)的振动激发水脉泽线。由于这种脉泽可以如此强大(高达数千个扬斯基),它在亚毫米阵列(SMA)干涉仪的最高频带(620-700 GHz)的调试阶段非常有帮助。从2002年底到2006年初,在最初的CSO调查之外,进行了简短的尝试,以寻找其他来源的排放量。这些努力使来源从10个增加到16个。脉泽发射似乎是相当紧凑的空间,预期从理论上考虑,因此这些对象可以潜在地被用作大气相位校准器。许多这些对象也表现出微波激射发射的振动激发的SiO脉泽在215 GHz。由于两条脉泽谱线可能来自相似的物理区域,这些天体可用于测试毫米和亚毫米波段之间的相位转移校准技术。658 GHz脉泽将是评估阿塔卡马大型毫米波阵列(ALMA)在这一具有挑战性的高频波段性能的重要信标。

英文摘要:

Discovered in 1995 at the Caltech Submillimeter Observatory (CSO), the vibrationally-excited water maser line at 658 GHz (455 micron) is seen in oxygen-rich giant and supergiant stars. Because this maser can be so strong (up to thousands of Janskys), it was very helpful during the commissioning phase of the highest frequency band (620-700 GHz) of the Submillimeter Array (SMA) interferometer. From late 2002 to early 2006, brief attempts were made to search for emission from additional sources beyond the original CSO survey. These efforts have expanded the source count from 10 to 16. The maser emission appears to be quite compact spatially, as expected from theoretical considerations; thus these objects can potentially be used as atmospheric phase calibrators. Many of these objects also exhibit maser emission in the vibrationally-excited SiO maser at 215 GHz. Because both maser lines likely originate from a similar physical region, these objects can be used to test techniques of phase transfer calibration between millimeter and submillimeter bands. The 658 GHz masers will be important beacons to assess the performance of the Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA) in this challenging high-frequency band.

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