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2000A&A...357....7P - Astronomy and Astrophysics, volume 357, 7-12 (2000/5-1)

VLBA HI absorption observations of the water megamaser galaxy NGC 5793.

PIHLSTROEM Y.M., CONWAY J.E., BOOTH R.S., DIAMOND P.J. and KORIBALSKI B.S.

Abstract (from CDS):

We report parsec-scale resolution observations of neutral hydrogen seen in absorption in the λ=21cm line in the H2O megamaser galaxy 793. We find that the total HI column density of 5x1022((Tsp)/(100K))cm–2 is divided into three narrow (FWHM≤16km/s) and one broad component (FWHM50km/s). The narrow components have HI column densities of ∼5x1021((Tsp)/(100K))cm–2 and there is evidence that they have sizes ≃15pc and HI densities of ∼150((Tsp)/(100K))cm–3. The broad absorption component shows a velocity gradient in the same direction as the CO disk observed in this source. We argue that this broad component could be due to a circumnuclear disk or torus. The observed velocity gradient implies that this structure has radius ∼50-100pc.

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Journal keyword(s): galaxies: active - galaxies: individual: NGC 5793 - galaxies: ISM - radio lines: galaxies

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