Location of H2O maser in the double-nuclei system of NGC6240

Details Location of H2O maser in the double-nuclei system of NGC6240 Location of H2O maser in the double-nuclei system of NGC6240

2003-02-27

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0302576v1

Astron.Astrophys. 400 (2003) 457-464

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

7 pages, 2 figues. To appear in Astronomy and Astrophysics (March, issue 2, 2003, vol 400, p457-463)

Scientific paper

10.1051/0004-6361:20021897

We performed VLA observations of the 22 GHz H2O maser emission in the merging galaxy NGC6240, which hosts the well-known double active nuclei. In a previous paper, we reported on the first solid detection of the H2O maser emission in 2001. After two abortive attempts due to the weakness and probable variability of the emission, the maser was detected with the VLA in June 2002. The emission is unresolved at ~ 0.3 arcsecond and coincides with the southern 22 GHz continuum peak to ~ 0.007 arcsecond (~ 3 pc: D = 97 Mpc). The detection of the maser in the southern nucleus indicates that nuclear activity of the galaxy,which is significant in X-ray and far-infrared (FIR) bands, lies mainly in the southern nucleus, and the nucleus without a high brightness peak could be explained by thick dust emitting FIR radiation. We favour the idea that the maser in NGC6240 is associated with the AGN-activity.

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