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36 GHz I类甲醇脉泽对NGCS253辐射的探测

Detection of 36 GHz class I methanol maser emission towards NGCS253

Simon Ellingsen, Xi Chen, Hai-Hua Qiao, Willem Baan, Tao An, Juan Li, Shari Breen

摘要:

我们已经使用澳大利亚望远镜紧凑阵列(ATCA)搜索发射的$4_{-1} \rightarrow 3_{0}E$过渡的甲醇(36.2 GHz)对附近的星爆星系NGC253的中心。探测到两个发射区域,沿着与内旋臂相同的位置角偏离核。在5角秒的尺度上,发射的光很大程度上是无法分辨的,半高宽(FWHM)线宽< 30 km s $^{-1}$,各向同性的光度比在任何银河系恒星形成区观察到的都要大几个数量级。这些特征表明,36.2 GHz的甲醇辐射最有可能是一个微波激射器,尽管需要更高的角度和光谱分辨率的观测来证实这一点。如果它是一个脉泽,这代表了第一次检测到的一类甲醇脉泽外银河系。NGC253中36.2 GHz的甲醇发射比最近在银河系中心检测到的广泛发射的各向同性光度高出一个数量级。如果这种转变的辐射与核恒星形成率成比例,那么它可能在许多星暴星系的中心区域被探测到。在超亮红外星系(ULIRGs)中探测甲醇排放将为测试宇宙学尺度上基本常数(特别是质子与电子质量比)的变化开辟一个新的工具。

英文摘要:

We have used the Australia Telescope Compact Array (ATCA) to search for emission from the $4_{-1} \rightarrow 3_{0}E$ transition of methanol (36.2 GHz) towards the center of the nearby starburst galaxy NGC253. Two regions of emission were detected, offset from the nucleus along the same position angle as the inner spiral arms. The emission is largely unresolved on a scale of 5 arcsec, has a full-width half maximum (FWHM) line width of < 30 km s$^{-1}$, and an isotropic luminosity orders of magnitude larger than that observed in any Galactic star formation regions. These characteristics suggest that the 36.2 GHz methanol emission is most likely a maser, although observations with higher angular and spectral resolution are required to confirm this. If it is a maser this represents the first detection of a class I methanol maser outside the Milky Way. The 36.2 GHz methanol emission in NGC253 has more than an order of magnitude higher isotropic luminosity than the widespread emission recently detected towards the center of the Milky Way. If emission from this transition scales with nuclear star formation rate then it may be detectable in the central regions of many starburst galaxies. Detection of methanol emission in ultra-luminous infra-red galaxies (ULIRGs) would open up a new tool for testing for variations in fundamental constants (in particular the proton-to-electron mass ratio) on cosmological scales.

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