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We have used the Australia Telescope Compact Array (ATCA) to search for emission from the $4_{-1} \rightarrow 3_{0}E$ transition of methanol (36.2 GHz) towards the center of the nearby starburst galaxy NGC253. Two regions of emission were…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-22 Simon Ellingsen , Xi Chen , Hai-Hua Qiao , Willem Baan , Tao An , Juan Li , Shari Breen

We present a catalogue of 12.2-GHz methanol masers detected towards 6.7-GHz methanol masers observed in the unbiased Methanol Multibeam (MMB) survey in the longitude range 330\circ (through 360\circ) to 10\circ. This is the first portion of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-03 Shari Breen , Simon Ellingsen , James Caswell , James Green , Maxim Voronkov , Gary Fuller , Lyshia Quinn , Adam Avison

We have used the Swedish ESO Submillimetre Telescope (SEST) to search for new class II methanol maser transitions towards the southern source G345.01+1.79. Over a period of 5 days we observed 11 known or predicted class II methanol maser…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-11 S. P. Ellingsen , A. M. Sobolev , D. M. Cragg , P. D. Godfrey

The Australia Telescope Compact Array (ATCA) has been used to map class I methanol masers at 36 and 44 GHz in G309.38-0.13. Maser spots are found at nine locations in an area of 50''x30'', with both transitions reliably detected at only two…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-19 M. A. Voronkov , J. L. Caswell , T. R. Britton , J. A. Green , A. M. Sobolev , S. P. Ellingsen

We present the results of a high sensitivity survey for 6.7 GHz methanol masers towards 22 GHz water maser using the 100 m Efflesberg telescope. A total of 89 sources were observed and 10 new methanol masers were detected. The new…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-01-28 Y. Xu , J. J. Li , K. Hachisuka , J. D. Pandian , K. M. Menten , C. Henkel

We have used the Australia Telescope Compact Array (ATCA) to search for a number of centimetre wavelength methanol transitions which are predicted to show weak maser emission towards star formation regions. Sensitive, high spatial and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-11-15 Antony Chipman , Simon Ellingsen , Andrej Sobolev , Dinah Cragg

We present the third instalment of a series of catalogues presenting 12.2-GHz methanol maser observations made towards each of the 6.7-GHz methanol masers detected in the Methanol Multibeam (MMB) Survey. The current portion of the catalogue…

We present the unambiguous discovery of six new class II methanol maser transitions, three of which are torsionally excited (vt=1). The newly discovered 6.18-GHz 17_-2 -> 18_-3 E (vt=1), 7.68-GHz 12_4 -> 13_3 A- (vt=0), 7.83-GHz 12_4 ->…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-05-15 S. L. Breen , A. M. Sobolev , J. F. Kaczmarek , S. P. Ellingsen , T. P. McCarthy , M. A. Voronkov

A new methanol maser line 6(-1)-5(0)E at 133 GHz was detected with the 12-m Kitt Peak radio telescope using remote observation mode from Moscow. Moderately strong, narrow maser lines were found in DR21(OH), DR21-W, OMC-2, M8E, NGC2264,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 V. I. Slysh , S. V. Kalenskii , I. E. Val'tts , V. V. Golubev

We present observations of the 36- (4_-1 -> 3_0E) and 84-GHz (5_-1 -> 4_0 E) class I methanol maser transitions towards a sample of 94 known class I sites. These observations resulted in 93 and 92 detections in the 84- and 36-GHz…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-01-30 Shari Breen , Yanett Contreras , Joanne Dawson , Simon Ellingsen , Maxim Voronkov , Tiege McCarthy

We performed a systematic 6.7 GHz Class \uppercase\expandafter{\romannumeral2} methanol maser survey using the Shanghai Tianma Radio Telescope toward targets selected from the all-sky \emph{Wide-Field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE)} point…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-04-30 Kai Yang , Xi Chen , Zhi-Qiang Shen , Xiao-Qiong Li , Jun-Zhi Wang , Dong-Rong Jiang , Juan Li , Jian Dong , Ya-Jun Wu , Hai-Hua Qiao , Zhiyuan Ren

We have searched for emission from the 36.2 GHz ($4_{-1} \rightarrow 3_0$E) methanol transition towards NGC 4945, using the Australia Telescope Compact Array. 36.2 GHz methanol emission was detected offset south-east from the Galactic…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-11-21 Tiege P. McCarthy , Simon P. Ellingsen , Xi Chen , Shari L. Breen , Maxim A. Voronkov , Hai-hua Qiao

We review properties of all known collisionally pumped (class I) methanol maser series based on observations with the Australia Telescope Compact Array (ATCA) and the Mopra radio telescope. Masers at 36, 84, 44 and 95 GHz are most…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-04 M. A. Voronkov , J. L. Caswell , S. P. Ellingsen , S. L. Breen , T. R. Britton , J. A. Green , A. M. Sobolev , A. J. Walsh

The Australia Telescope Compact Array (ATCA) has been used to search for methanol maser emission at 6.7 GHz towards OMC-1. Two features peaking at 7.2 km/s and -1.1 km/s have been detected. The former has at least two components close in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 M. A. Voronkov , A. M. Sobolev , S. P. Ellingsen , A. B. Ostrovskii

We have observed a sample of 288 molecular outflow sources including 123 high-mass and 165 low-mass sources to search for class I methanol masers at 95 GHz transition and to investigate relationship between outflow characteristics and class…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 Cong-Gui Gan , Xi Chen , Zhi-Qiang Shen , Ye Xu , Bing-Gang Ju

This is the second paper in a series of catalogues of 22-GHz water maser observations towards the 6.7-GHz methanol masers from the Methanol Multibeam (MMB) Survey. In this paper we present our water maser observations made with the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-03-23 A. M. Titmarsh , S. P. Ellingsen , S. L. Breen , J. L. Caswell , M. A. Voronkov

The Australia Telescope Compact Array has been used to search for 22-GHz water masers towards the 119 6.7-GHz methanol masers detected in the Methanol Multi-Beam survey between Galactic longitudes 6 and 20 degrees; we find water masers…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 A. M. Titmarsh , S. P. Ellingsen , S. L. Breen , J. L. Caswell , M. A. Voronkov

Methanol masers at 6.7 GHz have been found exclusively towards high-mass star forming regions. Recently, some Class 0 protostars have been found to display conditions similar to what are found in hot cores that are associated with massive…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 J. D. Pandian , S. Leurini , K. M. Menten , A. Belloche , P. F. Goldsmith

A survey of young bipolar outflows in regions of low-to-intermediate-mass star formation has been carried out in two class I methanol maser transitions: 7_0-6_1A+ at 44 GHz and 4_{-1}-3_0E at 36 GHz. We detected narrow features towards NGC…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-18 S. V. Kalenskii , L. E. B. Johansson , P. Bergman , S. Kurtz , P. Hofner , C. M. Walmsley , V. I. Slysh

We have investigated the central region of NGC 253 for the presence of 84.5-GHz ($5_{-1}\rightarrow4_0$E) methanol emission using the Australia Telescope Compact Array. We present the second detection of 84.5-GHz class~I methanol maser…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-11-21 Tiege P. McCarthy , Simon P. Ellingsen , Shari L. Breen , Maxim A. Voronkov , Xi Chen