Hostname: page-component-8448b6f56d-sxzjt Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-04-25T02:01:55.443Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

The magnetic field in luminous star-forming galaxies

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 November 2008

Timothy Robishaw  and
Carl Heiles
Timothy Robishaw
Affiliation:
Sydney Institute for Astronomy, School of Physics, The University of Sydney email: robishaw@physics.usyd.edu.au
Carl Heiles
Affiliation:
Astronomy Department, University of California, Berkeley email: heiles@astro.berkeley.edu
Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Abstract

Core share and HTML view are not available for this content. However, as you have access to this content, a full PDF is available via the ‘Save PDF’ action button.

An ongoing search for Zeeman splitting in the 1667 MHz OH megamaser emission from luminous star-forming galaxies has yielded numerous detections. These results, in addition to being the first extragalactic measurement of the Zeeman effect in an emission line, suggest that OH megamasers are excellent extragalactic magnetometers. We review the progress of our survey and discuss future observations.

Keywords

Masers – galaxies: magnetic fields – galaxies: starburst – ISM: molecules
Type
Contributed Papers
Information
Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union , Volume 4 , Symposium S259: Cosmic Magnetic Fields: From Planets, to Stars and Galaxies , November 2008 , pp. 493 - 498
Copyright
Copyright © International Astronomical Union 2009

References

Condon, J. J., Huang, Z.-P., Yin, Q. F., & Thuan, T. X. 1991, ApJ 378, 65CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Darling, J. & Giovanelli, R. 2002, AJ 124, 100CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Diamond, P. J., Lonsdale, C. J., Lonsdale, C. J., & Smith, H. E. 1999, ApJ 511, 178CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Downes, D. & Solomon, P. M. 1998, ApJ 507, 615CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Fish, V. L., Reid, M. J., Argon, A. L., & Menten, K. M. 2003, ApJ 596, 328CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Heiles, C., et al. 2001, PASP 113, 1274CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Heiles, C. & Troland, T. H. 2004, ApJS 151, 271CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Jones, T. J. 2000, AJ 120, 2920CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Lonsdale, C. J., Lonsdale, C. J., Diamond, P. J., & Smith, H. E. 1998, ApJL 493, L13CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Parra, R., Conway, J. E., Elitzur, M., & Pihlström, Y. M. 2005, A&A 443, 383Google Scholar
Pihlström, Y. M., Conway, J. E., Booth, R. S., Diamond, P. J., & Polatidis, A. G. 2001, A&A 377, 413Google Scholar
Randell, J., Field, D., Jones, K. N., Yates, J. A., & Gray, M. D. 1995, A&A 300, 659Google Scholar
Reid, M. J. & Moran, J. M. 1988, in Galactic and Extragalactic Radio Astronomy, ed. Verschuur, G. L. & Kellermann, K. I. (2nd ed.; Berlin: Springer), 255CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Robishaw, T., Quataert, E., & Heiles, C. 2008, ApJ 680, 981CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Rovilos, E., Diamond, P. J., Lonsdale, C. J., Lonsdale, C. J., & Smith, H. E. 2003, MNRAS 342, 373CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Thompson, T. A., Quataert, E., Waxman, E., Murray, N., & Martin, C. L. 2006, ApJ 645, 186CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Wielebinski, R. 2006, AN 327, 510Google Scholar