VLBI Imaging of Luminous Infrared Galaxies: Starbursts & AGN |
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| Authors: | Harding E. Smith Carol J. Lonsdale Colin J. Lonsdale Philip J. Diamond |
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| Affiliation: | (1) Department University of California, Center for Astrophysics & Space Sciences and Physics, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA;(2) Infrared Processing and Analysis Center, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA;(3) MIT Haystack Observatory, Westford, MA 01886, USA;(4) National Radio Astronomy Observatory, Socorro, NM 87801, USA |
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| Abstract: | As described by Colin Lonsdale in this Workshop, VLBI observations reveal thepresence of both AGN and Starburst activity in Luminous Infrared Galaxies.We highlight new results on two classical LIGs which span the range of LIGradio activity: Arp 220, which reveals luminous radio supernovae (RSN)produced in an intense starburst, and Mrk231, which has a powerful compact,AGN radio core. Second epoch observations of the compact radio sources inArp 220 confirm their nature as luminous Radio Supernovae, but indicate alower luminous RSN frequency ( LRSN  0.3 yr-1) andconsequent slower decay rate than previously suggested. We interpret thisas due to the dense starburst medium into which the supernovaedetonate. The compact radio morphology of Mrk231 places it among theCompact Symmetric Objects (CSOs) which are suggested to be young radio sources in which asymmetric lobes or hotspots reveal theworking surface of a relativistic jet upon the ambient medium. Assumingthat the lobes in Mrk 231 are confined by ram pressure, we estimate an agefor the jet/compact source,  106yr. We interpret Mrk 231as a newly formed QSO emerging from a starburst. |
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