OH megamaser的光度和它们的宿主星系的红外光度之间的相关关系

利用66个OH megamaser的光度和它们的宿主星系的红外光度之间的相关关系,得到log L(OH)=1.71log L(IR)-17.67,即L(OH)α[L(IR)]1。71.这个结果介于Baan所得到的L(OH)α[L(IR)]2和Kandalian所得到的L(OH)α[L(IR)]1.38的结果之间.由于统计时所取的样本数最多,因此结果更能反映实际情况.进一步,可把这66个OH megamaser分为两类;第一类为L(OH)<102L(?)的小光度OH megamaser,小光度OH megamaser包含了14个OH megamaser;第二类为L(OH)≥102L的大光度OH megamaser,大光度OH megamaser包含了52个OHmegamaser.研究结果表明,小光度OH megamaser的光度和它们的宿主星系的红外光度之间相关关系为L(OH)α[L(IR)]1.43,与Kandalia所得到的结果相接近.大光度OH megamaser的光度和它们的宿主星系的红外光度之间的相关关系为L(OH)α[L(IR)]2,与Baan所得到的结果相一致.

OH megamaser的抽运效率

到目前为止已发现了106个OH megamaser源。经典的OH megamaser模型给出宿主星系的强的远红外辐射抽运非饱和的OH megamaser。抽运效率(S1667/S60)对于非饱和OH megamaser及其宿主星系来说是一个重要的物理参数。研究了什么物理量与抽运效率有关,得到无论OH megam aser的光度还是OH megamaser 1667MHz的流量密度都与抽运效率相关。但是主线强度比,主线 1667MHz的光学深度绝对值,主线1665MHz的流量密度均与抽运效率不相关。

Velocity Field of Extragalactic OH Megamaser Clouds

As it has very strong and abnormal radiation, the external OH megamaser attracts many people. A lot of work has been done in searching for extragalactic OH megamaser and some observations of VLA-A, MERLIN and VLBI were conducted for the extragalactic OH megamaser galaxies which had been observed with single-antenna, e. g.

Radiation spectrum of OH megamaser from external galaxy ⅢZw35

ⅢZw35 is an external OH megamaser galaxy. Staveley-Smith et al. observedit using single-dish. Chapman et al.studied it through combined optical, infrared and ra-dio observation. Montgomery and Cohen observed the OH megamaser radiation ofⅢZW35 using MERLIN. The present author fitted the radiation spectrum observed byStaveley-Smith et al. in ref.[4].In this note we make a further investigation on the posi-