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Exploring OH Megamasers

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 August 2015

W.A. Baan
W.A. Baan*
Affiliation:
Arecibo ObservatoryBarrio Esperanza, Arecibo, Puerto Rico 00613, USA

Abstract

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The OH megamasers have a distinct parent population of dusty and FIR luminous merger galaxies. Optical, radio and molecular characteristics may be used to further identify the nature of the nuclear activity in the OH megamaser host galaxies. Recent interferometric data on OH megamasers Arp 220 and III Zw35 will be used to discuss the spatial distribution of the OH emission.

Type
II. Joint Discussions
Information
Highlights of Astronomy , Volume 11 , Issue 2: Highlights of Astronomy. As presented at the XXIIIrd General Assembly of the IAU (Part B), 1997 , 1998 , pp. 942 - 945
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Copyright © Kluwer 1998

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