First MERLIN Observations of Line Emission from the OH Megamaser toward IRAS 10173+0828

作     者：Zhi-YaoYu 

作者机构：ShanghaiAstronomicalObservatoryChineseAcademyofSciencesShanghai200030 

出 版 物：《Chinese Journal of Astronomy and Astrophysics》 (中国天文和天体物理学报（英文版）)

年 卷 期：2005年第5卷第2期

页      面：159-164页

核心收录：

学科分类：0709[理学-地质学] 07[理学] 0708[理学-地球物理学] 070401[理学-天体物理] 0704[理学-天文学] 0825[工学-航空宇航科学与技术] 

主　　题：masers ISM: molecules galaxies: nuclei galaxies: active galaxies:kinematics and dynamic galaxies: ISM 

摘      要：Many galaxies are thought to contain massive black holes, with masses in excess of ten million solar masses, at their centres and warped circumnuclear toruses. The best evidence comes from observing gas or masers rotating rapidly within a circumnuclear torus surrounding a central body. Here we report on the first MERLIN observations of line emission from the OH megamaser toward IRAS 10173+0828. The position of peak flux contours of the OH megamaser is consistent with that of the continuum in IRAS 10173+0828. This means that the OH megamaser is a diffuse unsaturated maser which could amplify the diffuse 18 cm continuum emission with an amplification factor of order unity.