Formaldehyde absorption and maser emisson in galaxies

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Jun 1986

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Astrophysical Journal, Part 1 (ISSN 0004-637X), vol. 305, June 15, 1986, p. 830-836.

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

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Astronomical Spectroscopy, Formaldehyde, Galactic Radiation, Interstellar Masers, Molecular Spectroscopy, Absorption Spectra, Galactic Nuclei, Hydroxyl Radicals, Line Spectra, Nonthermal Radiation, Radial Velocity

Scientific paper

A sensitive search for the 1(10)-1(11)(6.2 cm) H2CO transition toward eight galaxies with prominent H I absorption and OH absorption or emission has resulted in the detection of three weak absorption lines (NGC 660, NGC 3079, and NGC 3628) and, in addition, of H2CO emission toward the OH megamaser galaxy IC 4553 (= Arp 220). This feature is the first extragalactic H2CO maser, and is at least 7 orders of magnitudes more powerful than the two known Galactic maser sources. The maser is likely due to amplification of the strong nonthermal radiation field from IC 4553 by foreground material with inverted level populations. In terms of a radiative transfer model, it is suggested that strong pumping between the J = 2 levels (at 14.5 GHz) causes, via the J = 2-1 millimeter transition, a population inversion in the ground-state doublet. Although the inversion processes are different for these molecules, the scenario for this maser emission is very similar to that proposed for the extragalactic OH and H2O megamasers.

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