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Shock Origin of High-Velocity Maser Emission from: Circumnuclear Disks

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 August 2015

Eyal Maoz  and
Christopher F. McKee
Eyal Maoz
Affiliation:
Astronomy Department, University of California at Berkeley
Christopher F. McKee
Affiliation:
Astronomy Department, University of California at Berkeley

Abstract

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We propose that the observed high-velocity maser emission from circumnuclear disks arises in spiral shocks, which can naturally account for several peculiar findings in the spectrum and spatial distribution of the maser 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. 968 - 969
Copyright
Copyright © Kluwer 1998

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