Discovery of Water Maser Emission in Eight AGN with 70-m Antennas of NASA's Deep Space Network

Details Discovery of Water Maser Emission in Eight AGN with 70-m Antennas of NASA's Deep Space Network Discovery of Water Maser Emission in Eight AGN with 70-m Antennas of NASA's Deep Space Network

2005-10-31

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0510851v1

Astrophys.J.638:100-105,2006

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

7 pages, 1 figure, 2 tables, to appear in the 2006 February 10 issue of the Astrophysical Journal, uses twocolumns.cls

Scientific paper

10.1086/498641

We report the discovery of water maser emission in eight active galactic nuclei (AGN) with the 70-m NASA Deep Space Network (DSN) antennas at Tidbinbilla, Australia and Robledo, Spain. The positions of the newly discovered masers, measured with the VLA, are consistent with the optical positions of the host nuclei to within 1 sigma (0.3 arcsec radio and 1.3 arcsec optical) and most likely mark the locations of the embedded central engines. The spectra of two sources, NGC 3393 and NGC 5495, display the characteristic spectral signature of emission from an edge-on accretion disk, with orbital velocities of ~600 and ~400 km s^-1, respectively. In a survey with DSN facilities of 630 AGN selected from the NASA Extragalactic Database, we have discovered a total of 15 water maser sources. The resulting incidence rate of maser emission among nearby (v_sys < 7000 km s^-1) Seyfert 1.8-2.0 and LINER systems is ~10 percent for a typical rms noise level of ~14 mJy over 1.3 km s^-1 spectral channels. As a result of this work, the number of nearby AGN (v_sys < 7000 km s^-1) observed with <20 mJy rms noise has increased from 130 to 449.

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