Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2004-04-17
Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc. 353 (2004) 1055
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
9 pages, 10 figures, submitted to MNRAS (03/12/2003)
Scientific paper
10.1111/j.1365-2966.2004.08092.x
Broad hydroxyl (OH) absorption-lines in the 1667 MHz and 1665 MHz transition towards the central region of NGC 3079 have been observed at high resolution with the European VLBI Network (EVN). Velocity fields of two OH absorption components were resolved across the unresolved nuclear radio continuum of ~10 parsecs. The velocity field of the OH absorption close to the systemic velocity shows rotation in nearly the same sense as the edge-on galactic-scale molecular disk probed by CO(1-0) emission. The velocity field of the blue-shifted OH absorption displays a gradient in almost the opposite direction. The blue-shifted velocity field represents a non-rotational component, which may trace an outflow from the nucleus, or material driven and shocked by the kiloparsec-scale superbubble. This OH absorption component traces a structure that does not support a counter-rotating disk suggested on the basis of the neutral hydrogen absorption.
Baan Willem
Hagiwara Yoshiaki
Kloeckner Hans-Rainer
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