Submillimeter H2O Maser in Circinus Galaxy - A New Probe for the
  Circumnuclear Region of Active Galactic Nuclei
  We present the first detection of extragalactic submillimeter H2O maser in
the 321 GHz transition toward the center of Circinus galaxy, the nearby Type 2
Seyfert using the Atacama Large Millimeter/Submillimeter Array. We find that
Doppler features of the detected 321 GHz H2O maser straddle the systemic
velocity of the galaxy as seen in the spectrum of the known 22 GHz H2O maser in
the galaxy. By comparing the velocities of the maser features in both
transitions, it can be deduced that the 321 GHz maser occurs in a region
similar to that of the 22 GHz maser, where the sub-parsec-scale distribution of
the 22 GHz maser was revealed by earlier very long baseline interferometry
observations. The detected maser features remain unresolved at the synthesized
beam of ~0".66 (~15 pc) and coincide with the 321 GHz continuum peak within
small uncertainties. We also present a tentative detection of the highest
velocity feature (redshifts up to ~635 km/s) in the galaxy. If this
high-velocity feature arises from a Keplerian rotating disk well established in
this galaxy, it is located at a radius of ~0.018 pc (~1.2 x 10^5 Schwarzschild
radii), which might probe molecular material closest to the central engine.
