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ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL
卷 628, 期 2, 页码 L89-L91出版社
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1086/432666
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masers; quasars : general; radio lines : galaxies
A search for water masers in 47 Sloan Digital Sky Survey type 2 quasars using the Green Bank Telescope has yielded a detection at a redshift of z = 0.660. This maser is more than an order of magnitude higher in redshift than any previously known and, with a total isotropic luminosity of 23,000 L,, also the most powerful. The presence and detectability of water masers in quasars at z similar to 0.3-0.8 may provide a better understanding of quasar molecular tori and disks, as well as fundamental quasar and galaxy properties such as black hole masses. Water masers at cosmologically interesting distances may also eventually provide, via direct distance determinations, a new cosmological observable for testing the reality and properties of dark energy, currently inferred primarily through Type 1a supernova measurements.
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