A VLBA Search for a Stimulated Recombination Line from the Accretion Region in NGC1275

Details A VLBA Search for a Stimulated Recombination Line from the Accretion Region in NGC1275 A VLBA Search for a Stimulated Recombination Line from the Accretion Region in NGC1275

2002-12-19

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0212430v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

14 pages with 4 postscript figures. Accepted for publication in the April 2003 Astronomical Journal

Scientific paper

10.1086/368145

The radio source 3C84, in NGC1275, has a two sided structure on parsec scales. The northern feature, presumed to be associated with a jet moving away from the Earth, shows strong evidence for free-free absorption. The ionized gas responsible for that absorption would be a source of detectable stimulated recombination line emission for a wide range of physical conditions. The VLBA has been used to search for the H65$\alpha$ hydrogen recombination line. The line is only expected to be seen against the northern feature which contains a small fraction of the total radio flux density. This spatial discrimination significantly aids the search for a weak line. No line was seen, with upper limits of roughly 15% of the continuum over a velocity range of 1486 km/s with resolutions up to 6.6 km/s. In the absence of a strong radiation field, this would imply that the free-free absorbing gas has a wide velocity width, is moving rapidly relative to the systemic velocity, or is concentrated in a thin, high density structure. All of these possibilities are reasonably likely close to an AGN. However, in the intense radiation environment of the AGN, even considering only the radiation we actually observe passing through the free-free absorbing gas, the non-detection is probably assured by a combination of saturation and radiation damping.

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