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Megamaser Cosmology Project II : The prospects for measuring a 1% Ho and distances to high-z galaxies

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 February 2024

Cheng-Yu Kuo Open the ORCID record for Cheng-Yu Kuo [Opens in a new window] ,
Dominic Pesce ,
Violetta Impellizzeri ,
James Braatz  and
Mark Reid
Cheng-Yu Kuo*
Affiliation:
Physics Department, National Sun Yat-Sen University, No. 70, Lien-Hai Road, Kaosiung City 80424, Taiwan, R.O.C. Academia Sinica Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics, PO Box 23-141, Taipei 10617, Taiwan, R.O.C.
Dominic Pesce
Affiliation:
Center for Astrophysics — Harvard & Smithsonian, 60 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA Black Hole Initiative at Harvard University, 20 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
Violetta Impellizzeri
Affiliation:
Leiden Observatory, Leiden, the Netherlands
James Braatz
Affiliation:
National Radio Astronomy Observatory, 520 Edgemont Road, Charlottesville, VA 22903, USA
Mark Reid
Affiliation:
Center for Astrophysics — Harvard & Smithsonian, 60 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
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email: [email protected]
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H2O megamaser emission from sub-parsec circumnuclear disks at the center of active galaxies allows a single-step, direct distance measurements to galaxies in the Hubble flow without any external calibration. Based on accurate distance determinations of six maser galaxies within 150 Mpc, the Megamaser Cosmology Project (MCP) team recently obtained H0 = 73.9± 3.0 km/s/Mpc (‘∼ 4% accuracy), independent of distance ladders and the cosmic microwave background. To further applying the megamaser technique to attain a 1% Ho measurement, detecting more high-quality disk maser systems is crucial. In this conference proceeding, we update the status of the MCP and discuss strategies of detecting additional high-quality disk maser galaxies within z ∼ 0.1. In addition, we show the prospects of reaching a 1% Ho measurement with the supreme sensitivity of the ngVLA. Finally, we demonstrate that applying the maser technique to distance measurements of high-z galaxies with future submm VLBI systems is promising and this will allow for investigation of the new tension between the ΛCDM model and the high-z Hubble diagram.

Keywords

H2O masermegamasercosmologyquasar
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Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union , Volume 18 , Symposium S380: Cosmic Masers: Proper Motion toward the Next-Generation Large Projects , December 2022 , pp. 3 - 11
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