Radio continuum and 21-cm line observations of a nearby luminous infrared galaxy IRAS 17526+3253
Abstract
We present results from our EVN and GMRT observations of the radio continuum and spectral line emission in IRAS 17526+3253, along with an analysis of its arcsecond-scale radio properties using archival VLA data. The EVN observations detected radio continuum emission from both the northwest (NW) and southeast (SE) nuclei. The NW nucleus shows two components with high brightness temperatures and radio luminosities, likely indicating the presence of an AGN core and jet. Meanwhile, our EVN observation failed to detect the OH line emission, possibly due to radio frequency interference and/or the emission being partly resolved out and below our detection limit. The multi-band radio spectral energy distribution (SED) deviates from a single power-law at low frequencies, suggesting low-frequency absorption. The GMRT spectral line data reveal both absorption and emission. The emission is diffuse and shows a velocity gradient from about 7500 in the NW to 7800 in the SE nucleus. On larger scales, the emission extends about 4' along the NW-SE direction, with the southeastern extension matching the optical tidal tail. In addition, the weak absorption features show broad line profiles, possibly due to overlapping gas from the two nuclei. The aforementioned results are consistent with properties of intermediate-stage mergers reported in the literature.
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