{
  "id": "astro-ph/9912325",
  "version": "v1",
  "published": "1999-12-15T19:39:18.000Z",
  "updated": "1999-12-15T19:39:18.000Z",
  "title": "A Search for OH Megamasers at z > 0.1: Preliminary Results",
  "authors": [
    "J. Darling",
    "R. Giovanelli"
  ],
  "comment": "4 pages, 1 figure, LaTex, uses newpasp.sty. To appear in \"Science with the Atacama Large Millimeter Array\", ed. Al Wootten, PASP conf series, proceedings of a meeting in Washington DC, October 6-8, 1999",
  "categories": [
    "astro-ph"
  ],
  "abstract": "We report the discovery of 11 OH megamasers and one OH absorber, along with upper limits on the OH luminosity of 53 other luminous infrared galaxies at z > 0.1. The new megamasers show a wide range of spectral properties, but are consistent with the extant set of 55 previously reported objects, 8 of which have z > 0.1. The new OH detections are the preliminary results of a OH megamaser survey in progress at the Arecibo Observatory, which is expected to produce several dozen detections and calibrate the luminosity function of OH megamasers to the low-redshift galaxy merger rate (0.1 < z < 0.2).",
  "revisions": [
    {
      "version": "v1",
      "updated": "1999-12-15T19:39:18.000Z"
    }
  ],
  "analyses": {
    "keywords": [
      "preliminary results",
      "low-redshift galaxy merger rate",
      "oh megamaser survey",
      "extant set",
      "oh detections"
    ],
    "note": {
      "typesetting": "LaTeX",
      "pages": 4,
      "language": "en",
      "license": "arXiv",
      "status": "editable",
      "inspire": 520851
    }
  }
}