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2023PASJ...75L...1K - Publ. Astron. Soc. Jap., 75, L1-L5 (2023/April-0)

ALMA detection of 321 GHz water maser emission in the radio galaxy NGC 1052.

KAMENO S., HARIKANE Y., SAWADA-SATOH S., SAWADA T., SAITO T., NAKANISHI K. and HUMPHREYS E.

Abstract (from CDS):

The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) serendipitously detected H2O $J_{K_{\rm a}, K_{\rm c}} = 10_{2,9}$-9_3, 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 6_1, 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.

Abstract Copyright: © The Author(s) 2023. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Astronomical Society of Japan.

Journal keyword(s): galaxies: active - galaxies: individual (NGC 1052) - galaxies: nuclei - masers

Simbad objects: 8

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