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OH Megamasers and Active Galactic Nuclei

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 August 2017

R.P. Norris
R.P. Norris*
Affiliation:
CSIRO Division of Radiophysics, PO Box 76, Epping, NSW 2121, Australia

Abstract

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OH megamasers are believed to be active galaxies in which a substantial fraction of the OH gas in the disk of the galaxy is stimulated by the intense far-infrared flux from the active nucleus. The result is that the galactic disk acts as a maser amplifier, producing in the OH line an amplified image of the radio continuum source in the nucleus. Megamasers promise to be powerful tools for the study of active galaxies, provided we can determine what it is that turns an active galaxy into a megamaser. Here I examine the archetypal megamaser galaxy Arp220 and ask the question: what makes it different from other active galaxies?

Type
Galactic
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 129: The Impact of VLBI on Astrophysics and Geophysics , 1988 , pp. 261 - 262
Copyright
Copyright © Reidel 1988 

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