Water-Vapor Maser Disk at the Nucleus of the Seyfert 2 Galaxy IC 2560 and its Distance

Abstract

We present the results of single-dish and VLBI observations for the water-vapor masers at the nucleus of the Seyfert 2, IC 2560. We monitored velocities of the maser features with the 45-m telescope of the Nobeyama Radio Observatory. Using the data of 1995--2006, the velocity drift rate was detected to be a = +2.57 +/- 0.04 km/s/yr on the average for 6 systemic features. The Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA) with the Very Large Array (VLA) firstly detected a red-shifted and a blue-shifted maser features of IC 2560, in addition to systemic maser features and a continuum component. We propose a maser disk in the nuclear region. The systemic and red-shifted features are emitted from a nearly edge-on disk with the position angle of PA = -46 deg, which is almost perpendicular to the galactic disk. Assuming the Keplerian rotation, the radii of the maser disk are r = 0.087--0.335 pc, and the thickness is 2H <= 0.025 pc. The binding mass is 3.5 x 10^6 Msun at a distance of D = 26 Mpc, and the mean volume density within the inner radius is 1.3 x 10^9 Msun/pc^3, strongly suggesting a massive black hole at the center. A continuum component was detected at the 0.2 pc southwest of the disk center, and considered as a jet ejected from the nucleus, with an angle of 70 deg from the disk. The blue-shifted maser feature is located on the continuum component, being interpreted to be a "jet maser". The distance to IC 2560 is estimated to be D = 31^{+12}_{-14} Mpc from the geometry of the maser disk and the velocity drift rate.

17 pages, 7 figures, 5 tables, accepted for publication in PASJ

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