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A&A 383, 98-103 (2002)
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361:20011710

Radio observations of the circumnuclear ring in NGC 6951

D. J. Saikia^{1, 2, 3}, B. Phookun⁴, A. Pedlar^{2, 5} and K. Kohno<sup>6, 7

1</sup>  Department of Physics, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, K7L 3N6, Canada
²  Jodrell Bank Observatory, University of Manchester, Macclesfield, Cheshire SK11 9DL, UK
³  National Centre for Radio Astrophysics, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Post Bag No. 3, Ganeshkhind, Pune 411 007, India
⁴  St. Stephen's College, University of Delhi, Delhi 110 007, India
⁵  Onsala Space Observatory, 43992 Onsala, Sweden
⁶  Nobeyama Radio Observatory, Minamimaki, Minamisaku, Nagano 384-1305, Japan
⁷  Institute of Astronomy, University of Tokyo, Osawa, Mitaka, Tokyo 181-0015, Japan

(Received 26 September 2001 / Accepted 3 December 2001)

Abstract
We present sensitive, high-resolution radio observations of the circumnuclear region of the barred spiral galaxy NGC 6951. These observations reveal a ring of radio emission with many discrete components and a marginally resolved nuclear component. We compare the radio ring with observations at other wavelengths, and discuss the nature of the compact radio components.

Key words: galaxies: active -- galaxies: individual: NGC 6951 -- galaxies: nuclei -- galaxies: spiral -- radio continuum: galaxies

Offprint request: D. J. Saikia, djs@ncra.tifr.res.in

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