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活动星系NGC 6240和M51水脉泽辐射的高分辨率成像

High-Resolution Imaging of Water Maser Emission in the active galaxies NGC 6240 and M51

Yoshiaki Hagiwara, Philip G. Edwards

摘要:

本文介绍了用卡尔G. Jansky甚大阵。两个主要的H2O脉泽的功能和几个次要的功能被检测到对NGC 6240的南核。这些特征从星系的系统速度红移了约300 km/s,并且在合成光束尺寸下仍然无法解决。结合我们的两个历元观测和已发表的数据,揭示了脉泽强度和22 GHz射电连续谱发射之间的明显相关性,这意味着脉泽激发与南核的活动星系核的活动有关,而不是恒星形成活动。恒星形成星系M51在星系中心有H2O脉泽发射;然而,脉泽的起源一直是一个悬而未决的问题。本文报道了在M51中首次探测到22 GHz核射电连续辐射。连续辐射与脉泽位置一致,表明脉泽来自于星系中的活动星系核活动,而不是恒星形成活动。

英文摘要:

We present the results of observations of 22GHz H2O maser emission in NGC 6240 and M51 made with the Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array. Two major H2O maser features and several minor features are detected toward the southern nucleus of NGC 6240. These features are redshifted by about 300 km/s from the galaxy's systemic velocity and remain unresolved at the synthesized beam size. A combination of our two-epoch observations and published data reveals an apparent correlation between the strength of the maser and the 22GHz radio continuum emission, implying that the maser excitation relates to the activity of an active galactic nucleus in the southern nucleus rather than star-forming activity. The star-forming galaxy M51 hosts H2O maser emission in the center of the galaxy; however, the origin of the maser has been an open question. We report the first detection of 22GHz nuclear radio continuum emission in M51. The continuum emission is co-located with the maser position, which indicates that the maser arises from active galactic nucleus-activity and not from star-forming activity in the galaxy.

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