The Discovery of Polarized Water Vapor Megamaser Emission in a Molecular Accretion Disk

The Discovery of Polarized Water Vapor Megamaser Emission in a Molecular Accretion Disk

For the first time in an extragalactic source, we detect linearly polarized H _2 O maser emission associated with the molecular accretion disk of NGC 1068. The position angles of the electric polarization vectors are perpendicular to the axes of filamentary structures in the molecular accretion disk...

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Main Authors: Jack F. Gallimore, C. M. Violette Impellizzeri, Samaneh Aghelpasand, Feng Gao, Virginia Hostetter, Boy Lankhaar
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: IOP Publishing 2024-01-01
Series:The Astrophysical Journal Letters
Subjects:
Megamasers
Water masers
Supermassive black holes
Seyfert galaxies
Accretion
Very long baseline interferometry
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.3847/2041-8213/ad864f

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https://doi.org/10.3847/2041-8213/ad864f

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