Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2003-09-25
Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc.344:L53,2003
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
5 pages, 1 figure, to appear in Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc. Volume 344, Oct 1, 2003
Scientific paper
10.1046/j.1365-8711.2003.07005.x
Water vapor maser emission in the 6_{16}-5_{23} transition towards the narrow-line Seyfert 1 (NLS1) galaxy NGC 4051 has been discovered during an ongoing single-dish extragalactic water maser survey. The Doppler-shifted maser components appear to bracket maser components lying near the systemic velocity of the galaxy symmetrically. The tentative result of a Very Large Array (VLA) snapshot observation is that the masers are confined within 0.1 arcsec (5 pc at a distance D = 9.7 Mpc) of the radio continuum peak seen at 8.4 GHz. The low luminosity of the maser (~2 Lsun) is not typical for masers that coincide with the radio continuum nucleus and appear associated with Active Galactic Nucleus (AGN) activity. A low-luminosity maser in a Type 1 Seyfert nucleus could be explained by a low maser gain resulting from the lower inclination of an obscuring disk around an active nucleus.
Baan Willem
Diamond Philip J.
Hagiwara Yoshiaki
Miyoshi Makoto
Rovilos Emmanouel
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