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Shock Origin of High-Velocity Maser Emission from Circumnuclear Disks

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

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

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Research Article
Information
International Astronomical Union Colloquium , Volume 164: Radio Emission from Galactic and Extragalactic Compact Sources , 1998 , pp. 217 - 218
Copyright
Copyright © Astronomical Society of the Pacific 1998

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