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A. Niezurawska M. Szymczak A. M. S. Richards R. J. Cohen 《Astrophysics and Space Science》2005,295(1-2):37-42
Two star-forming regions Cepheus A and W75N, were searched for the 4765-MHz OH maser emission using the multi-element radio linked interferometer network (MERLIN). The excited OH emission has an arc-like structure of 40 mas in Cep A and a linear structure of size 45 mas in W75N. We also found the 1720-MHz line in Cep A and Hutawarakorn [MNRAS 330 (2002) 349] reported the 1720-MHz emission in W75N. The 1720- and 4765-MHz OH spots coincided in space within 60 mas and in velocity within 0.3 km s–1 in both targets implying that both maser transitions arise from the same region. According to the modelling by Gray [MNRAS 252 (1991) 30] the 1720/4765-MHz co-propagation requires a low density, warm environment. The masers lie at the edges of H II regions where such conditions are expected. 相似文献
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In this paper, we study the galactic distribution and luminosity function of OH/IR maser sources. All the selected OH/IR sources have optical or infrared identification. Most of them are associated with late-type (>M5) Mira variables. Their derived density distribution shows a steep peak at a galactocentric distance of r0-7.5 kpc and decreases rapidly at smaller and larger R0. The FWHM of the distribution curve is 2.1 kpc. This is similar to the galactic distribution of Mira variables investigated by Glass et al.
We also derive the luminosity function of the identified OH/IR maser sources from their distances, their detection probabilities, and their corrected OH radio peak flux densities. The luminosity function ρ(L) varies as LOH−1.79. This is similar to that of unidentified maser sources. The range of luminosity of identified OH/IR sources is approximately from 0.16 Jy · kpc2 to 1000 Jy · kpc2. It is quite different from that of unidentified OH sources.
Finally, we discuss some differences and relations between identified and unidentified OH/IR maser sources. 相似文献
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L. Harvey-Smith † R. J. Cohen 《Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society》2006,371(4):1550-1558
Images of the 6.7-GHz methanol maser emission from W3(OH) made at 50- and 100-mas angular resolution with the Multi-Element Radio-Linked Interferometer Network (MERLIN) are presented. The masers lie across the western face of the ultracompact H ii region in extended filaments which may trace large-scale shocks. There is a complex interrelation between the 6.7-GHz methanol masers and hydroxyl (OH) masers at 1.7 and 4.7 GHz. Together the two species trace an extended filamentary structure that stretches at least 3100 au across the face of the ultracompact H ii region. The dominant 6.7-GHz methanol emission coincides with the radio continuum peak and is populated by masers with broad spectral lines. The 6.7-GHz methanol emission is elongated at position angle 50° with a strong velocity gradient, and bears many similarities to the methanol maser disc structure reported in NGC 7538. It is surrounded by arcs of ground state OH masers at 1.7 GHz and highly excited OH masers at 13.44 GHz, some of which have the brightest methanol masers at their focus. We suggest that this region hosts the excitation centre for the ultracompact H ii region. 相似文献
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S. Etoka R. J. Cohen M. D. Gray 《Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society》2005,360(3):1162-1170
We present single-baseline Multi-Element Radio-Linked Interferometer Network (MERLIN) measurements of excited OH 6.0-GHz masers and methanol 6.7-GHz masers for the source W3(OH). These allow us to compare the positions of individual maser spots of these two species to ∼15 mas accuracy for the first time, and to compare these with previously published positions of ground-state OH masers near 1.7 GHz and excited-state OH masers near 4.7 GHz. There is a strong association between OH 6035-MHz and 1665-MHz masers. OH and methanol have very similar distributions, but associations of individual masers are relatively rare: most methanol 6.7-GHz masers are within 100 mas of OH 6.0-GHz masers, but only four methanol masers are within 15 mas of an OH 6.0-GHz maser. There are no correspondences of either species with excited OH 4.7-GHz masers. Zeeman splitting of the 6.0-GHz OH lines indicates an ordered magnetic field ranging from 3.2 to 14.4 mG. The magnetic fields estimated from co-propagating masers such as 6035 and 1665 MHz are generally in good agreement with each other. 相似文献
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对IRAS 10173+0828的拱核环中的OH超脉泽进行MERLIN§高分辨观测,得到了拱核环为翘曲的证据,同时得到了10个速度通道中OH超脉泽的等强度轮廓线向东西方向延伸的角尺寸与其相应速度通道中峰束流量密度成正相关关系. 相似文献
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Yu Zhi-Yao 《Astrophysics and Space Science》1996,241(2):305-313
This paper shows how a new model can be used to explain the observational spectrum of the OH megamaser emission from the external galaxy IIIZw35 obtained using a single-dish and the position map of its spots obtained using MERLIN. The computational results indicate that both models and fitting are consistent. 相似文献
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Phase-referenced observations of 13 star-forming regions in the 2 Π1/2 , J = 1/2 transition of rotationally excited OH at 4765 MHz have been carried out using MERLIN. Two of the regions were also observed at 4750 MHz and one at 4660 MHz. There were 10 maser detections at 4765 MHz and three non-detections. There were no detections at 4750 and 4660 MHz. The 4765-MHz masers have brightness temperatures of ∼107 K at MERLIN resolution (∼50 mas). Several cases of 4765-MHz masers overlapping in position and velocity with 1720- and 1665-MHz masers are reported. There are also isolated 4765-MHz masers with peak flux densities ≥30 times that of any ground-state counterpart. Most of the 4.7-GHz maser spots are unresolved at 50-mas angular resolution, but in four of the nearest sources the maser spots are resolved, indicating a characteristic size for 4765-MHz maser regions of ∼100 au. In W3(OH) we discovered that 20 per cent of the 4765-MHz emission comes from a narrow low-brightness filament that stretches north–south for ∼1.0 arcec (∼2200 au) between two previously known 4765-MHz maser spots. The filament appears in projection against the H ii region and has a brightness temperature of ∼4 × 105 K . There are matching absorption features in mainline transitions of highly excited OH. The filament may trace a shock front in a rotating disc. 相似文献
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Martin Cohen Jessica M. Chapman Rachel M. Deacon † Robert J. Sault Quentin A. Parker Anne J. Green 《Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society》2006,369(1):189-196
We present radio observations of the unique, recently formed, planetary nebula (PN) associated with a very long-period OH/IR variable star V1018 Sco that is unequivocally still in its asymptotic giant branch phase. Two regions within the optical nebula are clearly detected in non-thermal radio continuum emission, with radio spectral indices comparable to those seen in colliding-wind Wolf–Rayet binaries. We suggest that these represent shocked interactions between the hot, fast stellar wind and the cold nebular shell that represents the PN's slow wind moving away from the central star. This same interface produces both synchrotron radio continuum and the optical PN emission. The fast wind is neither spherical in geometry nor aligned with any obvious optical or radio axis. We also report the detection of transient H2 O maser emission in this nebula. 相似文献
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Zhi-Yao Yu Shanghai Astronomical Observatory Chinese Academy of Sciences Shanghai National Astronomical Observatories Chinese Academy of Sciences Beijing 《中国天文和天体物理学报》2005,5(2):159-164
Many galaxies are thought to contain massive black holes, with masses in excess of ten million solar masses, at their centres and warped circumnu-clear toruses. The best evidence comes from observing gas or masers rotating rapidly within a circumnuclear torus surrounding a central body. Here we report on the first MERLIN observations of line emission from the OH megamaser toward IRAS 10173+0828. The position of peak flux contours of the OH megamaser is consistent with that of the continuum in IRAS 10173+0828. This means that the OH megamaser is a diffuse unsaturated maser which could amplify the diffuse 18 cm continuum emission with an amplification factor of order unity. 相似文献
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Colin J. Lonsdale 《Astrophysics and Space Science》1999,266(1-2):119-124
High resolution radio observations provide a unique tool for investigation ofultraluminous infrared galaxies, due to the combination of high angularresolution and source transparency available at centimeter wavelengths. Thetypical angular size of the IR emitting region in the most luminous systems isof order 0.1 arcsec, while dust absorption appears to obscure this region fromdirect view at wavelengths shorter than 100 microns. Radio observationswith VLBI and MERLIN are revealing compact radio structures indicative of bothstarburst and AGN activity in these systems. Additional observations arerequired to clarify relationships between radio structures and the energygeneration mechanisms, and to realize the full potential of radio interferometryfor ULIRG studies. 相似文献
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本文在“OH/IR脉泽源的空间分布和光度函数”一文的基础上,对其所用的127个已有光学或红外证认的OH脉泽源的空间运动特性进行了分析,找到各类OH/IR脉泽源的视向速度与银河系较差自转运动的偏离以及各种速度分离下源的运动特点,同时利用文[1]所得的已证认OH/IR源的空间真实密度分布,导出了它们的速度分布模型N(l,v)。对与新证认的非IRC红外源(通常是在更长波长上观测到的)成协的OH/IR源发现有一以银心为心的约为50km/s的径向膨胀运动。文章最后对已证认和未证认的OH/IR脉泽源的差别和联系进行了讨论。 相似文献
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We present radio interferometric observations of the Algol-type binary system RZ Cassiopeiae made with the VLA and MERLIN arrays at 6 cm over an incomplete orbital cycle of the system (1.195 d). We detected RZ Cas with both instruments. The images were unresolved in both cases, with angular extents comparable to the synthesized beams. The peak flux density in the VLA image was 1.14 mJy beam−1 and in the MERLIN image it was 0.93 mJy beam−1 . The derived brightness temperatures are 4.02 × 108 and 4.35 × 108 K and the effective electron energies are 0.347 and 0.346 MeV for the MERLIN and VLA data respectively. The radio light curve shows an interesting modulation centred close to the primary eclipse which seems to correlate with ASCA SIS observations of the system. The results can be interpreted as an emitting region on the outer hemisphere of the cool component aligned along the centroid axis of the binary system. 相似文献
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E. Xanthopoulos 《Astrophysics and Space Science》2011,333(2):389-398
We present the results of a pilot study in which we obtained Multi-Element Radio Linked Interferometer Network (MERLIN) L-band snapshot images of the 20 strongest radio sources from a sample of 123 radio objects that exhibit significant
flux density variations at 1.4 GHz on a seven year base-line. The sample was created using FIRST VLA B-array data from 1995
and 2002 on a strip around zero declination near the south Galactic cap. The primary purpose is to assess the presence of
radio jets and provide direct evidence between long-term variability and jet structures, as several models suggest. The radio
structure of all the sources in this subsample appears very compact and our high resolution MERLIN observations reveal for
the first time the presence of small milli-arcsecond (mas) jets and/or jet-like extensions in 17 of the 20 variable sources
(literature data show core-jet structures or hints of extended structure in the other three objects which are point sources
in our MERLIN observations). In the future we will use the radio results from the complete study, in combination with their
optical Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) data, in order to investigate trends and possible differences or similarities between
the quasars and galaxies that host these radio sources, and so examine existing unification schemes or open up new aspects
in AGN unification. 相似文献
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From the LRS spectra of almost 2000 IRAS sources showing the 1612 MHz OH emission we found 9 candidates for OH/IR stars with SiC features in their envelopes. Further study indicates that 6 of these are definitely or very probably carbon star with the 11.3 μm SiC emission feature in addition of being OH/IR stars showing the 1612 MHz OH maser emission. 相似文献
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The multi-element radio-linked interferometer network (MERLIN) measurements of 1665-, 1667- and 1720-MHz OH masers associated with NGC 7538 are presented. The masers are located at the centres of three bipolar molecular outflows associated with the infrared sources IRS 1, IRS 9 and IRS 11. The distribution of OH masers in IRS 1 is more extensive than previously reported and is displaced to the south of the methanol 6.7-GHz masers. The OH masers in IRS 9 have not previously been reported. Their distribution seems to be orthogonal to the direction of the outflow and to the distribution of H2 O masers. The maser distribution in IRS 11 is parallel to the dust ridge and orthogonal to the outflow. Full polarization measurements of the OH maser emission show systematic differences between the three sources. IRS 1 has moderate polarization, with linear polarization vectors partially aligned with the bipolar outflow; IRS 9 exhibits larger polarization, but little linear component; IRS 11 shows the strongest polarization and has linear polarization vectors aligned parallel to the outflow. There is also evidence for a toroidal component of the magnetic field around the IRS 11 outflow, orthogonal to the outflow direction. It is suggested that the differences in polarization trace a possible evolutionary sequence from oldest (IRS 1) to youngest (IRS 11). 相似文献
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本文计算了一批ＯＨ／ＩＲ星的绝对Ｋ星等Ｍｋ，对ＯＨ／ＩＲ星的Ｍｋ和距离ｄ作了讨论。发现当Ｋ较亮时，Ｍｋ为一常数；当Ｋ较暗时，Ｍｋ较离散且呈现一定的变化趋势。本文还拟合得到了一个由Ｋ星等求距离的经验公式，并由此公式计算了一批ＯＨ／ＩＲ星的距离。最后，对所得结果进行了解释和讨论。 相似文献
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R. A. Kandalyan 《Astrophysics》2005,48(3):355-362
The properties of OH megamaser galaxies in the x-ray and radio ranges are discussed. Based on a sample of OH megamaser galaxies it is shown that the x-ray emission and the width of the OH radio line are closely related. The line width is also related to the radio emission from megamasers, but it depends only weakly on the infrared emission and this relationship is statistically less significant. The OH line width and the radio and x-ray emissions depend on the central mass of megamasers. There is a weak correlation between the radio and x-ray emissions owing to multiple scattering of synchrotron photons and bursts from the galactic nucleus. These results indicate that an active nucleus can be dominant in OH megamaser galaxies.__________Translated from Astrofizika, Vol. 48, No. 3, pp. 421–430 (August 2005). 相似文献
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使用澳大利亚Ｐａｒｋｅｓ６４ｍ射电望远镜,在五个不同的位置上观测了ＯＨ１７．７２．０附近的弱ＯＨ脉泽源．发现了一个新的弱ＯＨ脉泽源,其峰值速度为５２．５ｋｍ／ｓ．利用二维Ｇａｕｓｓｉａｎ拟合技术,得到了这个源的最佳拟合位置 相似文献
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1 INTRODUCTIONCompact Symmetric Objects (CSOs) are powerful and compact sources (overall size <1 bpc) with lobe emission on both sides of the central engine. The small size of these sourcesis almost certainly to be attributed to the youth of the sources themselves (ages < 104 yr) andnot due to a dense coallning medium (Readhead 1996). The unification scenario assumes thatCSOs evolve into compact steep spectrum (CSS) sotirces and then into Fanaroff-Riley type 11objects (Fanti 1995). … 相似文献
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Schloerb F. P. Devries C. H. Lovell A. J. Irvine W. M. Senay M. Wootten H. A. 《Earth, Moon, and Planets》1997,78(1-3):45-51
Observations of comets in the 18-cm OH transitions offer a means to probe gas production, kinematics, and OH excitation in
comets. We present initial results of OH observations of comet Hale-Bopp obtained with the NRAO 43 m antenna located in Greenbank,
WV. Maps of the emission provide strong constraints on the amount of quenching of the inversion of the OH ground state Λ-doublet
in the coma. Analysis of the total radio OH flux and maps of its radial brightness distribution indicate a quenched region
on the order of ∼500,000 km during March and April 1997. This large value is generally consistent with previous observations
of radio OH quenching in lower production rate comets when the high production rate of comet Hale-Bopp is considered.
This revised version was published online in July 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date. 相似文献