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First Detection of MillimeterSubmillimeter Extragalactic H2O Maser Emission

a r X i v : a s t r o - p h / 0 5 1 1 0 1 4 v 1 1 N o v 2 0 0 5 First Detection of Millimeter/Submillimeter Extragalactic H2O Maser Emission E. M. L. Humphreys ehumphreys@cfa.harvard.edu L. J. Greenhill lgreenhill@cfa.harvard.edu M. J. Reid mreid@cfa.harvard.edu H. Beuther hbeuther@cfa.harvard.edu J. M. Moran jmoran@cfa.harvard.edu M. Gurwell mgurwell@cfa.harvard.edu D. J. Wilner dwilner@cfa.harvard.edu P. T. Kondratko pkondratko@cfa.harvard.edu Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, 60 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA 02138 ABSTRACT We report the first detection of an extragalactic millimeter wavelength H2O maser at 183 GHz towards NGC 3079 using the Submillimeter Array (SMA), and a tentative submillimeter wave detection of the 439 GHz maser towards the same source using the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope (JCMT). These H2O transitions – 2 – are known to exhibit maser emission in star-forming regions and evolved stars. NGC 3079 is a well-studied nuclear H2O maser source at 22 GHz with a time- variable peak flux density in the range 3 – 12 Jy. The 183 GHz H2O maser emission, with peak flux density ～0.5 Jy (7σ detection), also originates from the nuclear region of NGC 3079 and is spatially coincident with the dust continuum peak at 193 GHz (53 mJy integrated). Peak emission at both 183 and 439 GHz occurs in the same range of velocity as that covered by the 22 GHz spectrum. We estimate the gas to dust ratio of the nucleus of NGC 3079 to be ≈150, comparable to the Galactic value of 160. Discovery of maser emission in an active galactic nucleus beyond the long-known 22 GHz transition opens the possibility of future position-resolved radiative transfer modeling of accretion disks and outflows 1 pc from massive black holes. Subject headings: Masers — submillimeter — galaxies: active — galaxies: nuclei — galaxies: individual (NGC 3079) — techniques: high angular resolution 1. Introduction Active galactic nuclei (AGN) that exhibit H2O maser emission at 22 GHz have bee