Extremely Luminous Water Vapor Emission from a Type 2 Quasar at Redshift z = 0.66

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2005-06-10

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0506245v1

Astrophys.J. 628 (2005) L89-L92

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

8 pages including 1 figure; accepted for publication in ApJ Letters

Scientific paper

10.1086/432666

A search for water masers in 47 Sloan Digital Sky Survey Type 2 quasars using the Green Bank Telescope has yielded a detection at a redshift of z = 0.660. This maser is more than an order of magnitude higher in redshift than any previously known and, with a total isotropic luminosity of 23,000 L_sun, also the most powerful. The presence and detectability of water masers in quasars at z ~ 0.3-0.8 may provide a better understanding of quasar molecular tori and disks, as well as fundamental quasar and galaxy properties such as black hole masses. Water masers at cosmologically interesting distances may also eventually provide, via direct distance determinations, a new cosmological observable for testing the reality and properties of dark energy, currently inferred primarily through Type 1a supernova measurements.

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