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Interacting Intersecting Masers

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

Shuji Deguchi*
Affiliation:
Nobeyama Radio Observatory, National Astronomical Observatory, Minamisaku, Nagano 384-13, Japan

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An interaction of two masers through plasma longitudinal waves in the Stimulate Raman Scattering has been investigated and applied for the extreme high-velocity (900 km s-1) water masers discovered in NGC 4258. For the stimulated Raman scattering, the frequency down-shifted components are easily created but not the up-shifted components. We use the interacting masers for the explanation for the presence of the up-shifted components. The interaction occurs when the wave vector of the longitudinal plasma wave associated with one incident maser coincides with the wave vector of the other longitudinal wave associated with the other maser. This interaction produces two daughter waves, frequency up-shifted and down-shifted radiations with a shift of roughly a plasma frequency. This interaction occurs when two masers intersect with intersecting angle of about 176 degree in plasma of the electron density of about 5 106 cm-3. The brightness temperature of the original incident masers must be greater than about 1013 K (depending on the line width, and the maser beaming angle, etc.) and the scale length of plasma must be larger than about 1013 cm.

Type
3. Astronomical Results and Prospects
Copyright
Copyright © Astronomical Society of the Pacific 1994

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