Opportunities for maser studies with the Square Kilometre Array

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2007-09-21

arxiv.org/abs/0709.3445v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

5 pages, to appear in: IAU Symposium 242 Astrophysical Masers and their Environments

Scientific paper

10.1017/S1743921307013671

The Square Kilometre Array (SKA) is the radio telescope of the next generation, providing an increase in sensitivity and angular resolution of two orders of magnitude over existing telescopes. Currently, the SKA is expected to span the frequency range 0.1-25 GHz with capabilities including a wide field-of-view and measurement of polarised emission. Such a telescope has enormous potential for testing fundamental physical laws and producing transformational discoveries. Important science goals include using H2O megamasers to make precise estimates of H0, which will anchor the extragalactic distance scale, and to probe the central structures of accretion disks around supermassive black holes in AGNs, to study OH megamasers associated with extreme starburst activity in distant galaxies and to study with unprecedented precision molecular gas and star formation in our Galaxy.

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