Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
Mar 2007
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2007iaus..242..467r&link_type=abstract
Astrophysical Masers and their Environments, Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union, IAU Symposium, Volume 242, p.
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
Masers, Galaxies: Magnetic Fields, Galaxies: Starburst, Ism: Molecules
Scientific paper
We detected significant Zeeman splitting in the 1667 MHz OH megamaser
emission from four ultraluminous galaxies. These detections, in addition
to being the first extragalactic detection of the Zeeman effect in an
emission line, suggest that OH megamasers are excellent extragalactic
magnetometers.
Heiles Carl
Quataert Eliot
Robishaw Timothy
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