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- Title
ALMA detection of 321 GHz water maser emission in the radio galaxy NGC 1052.
- Authors
Kameno, Seiji; Harikane, Yuichi; Sawada-Satoh, Satoko; Sawada, Tsuyoshi; Saito, Toshiki; Nakanishi, Kouichiro; Humphreys, Elizabeth
- Abstract
The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) serendipitously detected H2O |$J_{K_{\rm a}, K_{\rm c}} = 10_{2,9}$| –93, 6 emission at 321 GHz in NGC 1052. This is the first submillimeter maser detection in a radio galaxy and the most luminous 321 GHz H2O maser known to-date with the isotropic luminosity of |$1090\, L_{\odot }$|. The line profile consists of a broad velocity component with FWHM = 208 ± 12 km s−1 straddling the systemic velocity and a narrow component with FWHM = 44 ± 3 km s−1 blueshifted by 160 km s−1. The profile is significantly different from the known 22 GHz 61, 6–52, 3 maser which shows a broad profile redshifted by 193 km s−1. The submillimeter maser is spatially unresolved with a synthesized beam of |${0{^{\prime \prime}_{.}}68} \times {0{^{\prime \prime}_{.}}56}$| and coincides with the continuum core position within 12 pc. These results indicate amplification of the continuum emission through high-temperature (>1000 K) and dense [ n (H2O) > 104 cm−3] molecular gas in front of the core.
- Subjects
NEW General Catalogue of Nebulae &; Clusters of Stars; MASERS; RADIO galaxies; SEYFERT galaxies; ACTIVE galaxies
- Publication
Publications of the Astronomical Society of Japan, 2023, Vol 75, Issue 2, pL1
- ISSN
0004-6264
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/pasj/psad011