A sensitive search for water masers associated with star formation regions in the Local Group galaxy NGC 6822 [GA]

http://arxiv.org/abs/2205.00545


We report the results of a sensitive search for water maser emission in the Local Group Galaxy NGC 6822 with the Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array. The observations provide tentative single-epoch detections of four candidates, associated with two infrared-bright star formation regions (Hubble I/III and Hubble IV). The candidate maser detections are all offset from the velocity range where strong emission from HI neutral gas is observed toward NGC 6822, with the closest offset by 40 kms$^{-1}$. Our observations include the location of NL1K, a previous tentative water maser detection in NGC 6822. We do not detect any emission from this location with a sensitivity limit approximately a factor of 5 better than the original Sardina Radio Telescope observations.

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C. Flanagan, S. Ellingsen and A. Cole
Tue, 3 May 22
46/82

Comments: Accepted for publication by the Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia: 8 pages, 7 figures