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Using the Very Large Array, we have detected weak OH maser emission near the Turner-Welch protostellar source in the W3 OH region. Unlike typical interstellar OH masers, which are associated with ultra-compact HII regions, our measured…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 A. L. Argon , M. J. Reid , K. M. Menten

We present high angular resolution (0.6'') observations made with the VLA of the radio continuum at 8.3 and 43 GHz as well as H92 Alpha and H53 Alpha radio recombination lines from the nearby (3 Mpc) starburst galaxy M82. In the continuum…

We analyze full-polarization VLBA data of ground-state, main-line OH masers in 18 massive star-forming regions previously presented in a companion paper. The OH masers often arise in the shocked neutral gas surrounding ultracompact Hii…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Vincent L. Fish , Mark J. Reid

Interstellar masers are unique probes of the environments in which they arise. In studies of high-mass star formation their primary function has been as signposts of these regions and they have been used as probes of the kinematics and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 S. P. Ellingsen , M. A. Voronkov , D. M. Cragg , A. M. Sobolev , S. L. Breen , P. D. Godfrey

We present results from VLBA observations of the 1667 and 1665 MHz OH lines in the two OH megamaser galaxies IRAS12032+1707 and IRAS14070+0525. For IRAS12032+1707 we also present Arecibo HI absorption data. Almost all OH emission previously…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Y. M. Pihlstrom , W. A. Baan , J. Darling , H. -R. Klockner

We have undertaken a comprehensive search for 5-cm excited OH maser emission from evolved stars representative of various stages of late stellar evolution. Observed sources were selected from known 18-cm OH sources. This survey was…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 J. -F. Desmurs , A. Baudry , P. Sivagnanam , C. Henkel

A previously unseen maser in the J = 1 - 0 transition of HCO$^+$ has been detected by the Combined Array for Millimeter-wave Astronomy (CARMA). A sub-arcsecond map was produced of the 2 arcmin$^2$ region around DR21(OH), which has had…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2012-09-25 Nicholas S. Hakobian , Richard M. Crutcher

Extragalactic water vapor masers with 50, 1000, 1, and 230 solar (isotropic) luminosities were detected toward Mrk1066 (UGC2456), Mrk34, NGC3556 and Arp299, respectively. The interacting system Arp299 appears to show two maser hotspots…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 C. Henkel , A. B. Peck , A. Tarchi , N. M. Nagar , J. A. Braatz , P. Castangia , L. Moscadelli

We report the discovery of widespread maser emission in non-metastable inversion transitions of NH$_3$ toward various parts of the Sagittarius B2 molecular cloud/star forming region complex: We detect masers in the $J,K = $ (6,3), (7,4),…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-10-19 Y. T. Yan , C. Henkel , K. M. Menten , Y. Gong , H. Nguyen , J. Ott , A. Ginsburg , T. L. Wilson , A. Brunthaler , A. Belloche , J. S. Zhang , N. Budaiev , D. Jeff

We have detected emission from both the 4_{-1}-3_{0} E (36.2~GHz) class I and 7_{-2}-8_{-1} E (37.7~GHz) class II methanol transitions towards the centre of the closest ultra-luminous infrared galaxy Arp 220. The emission in both the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-23 Xi Chen , Simon P. Ellingsen , Willem A. Baan , Hai-Hua Qiao , Juan Li , Tao An , Shari L. Breen

{The variability study of 6.7\,GHz methanol masers has become a useful way to improve our understanding of the physical conditions in high-mass star-forming regions.} {Based on the single-dish monitoring using the Irbene telescopes, we…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-07-10 A Aberfelds , A Bartkiewicz , M Szymczak , J Šteinbergs , G Surcis , A Kobak , M Durjasz , I Shmeld

Using Chandra observations, we study the X-ray emission of the stellar population in the compact dwarf elliptical galaxy M32. The proximity of M32 allows one to resolve all bright point sources with luminosities higher than 8e33 erg/s in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 M. Revnivtsev , E. Churazov , S. Sazonov , W. Forman , C. Jones

Methanol masers at 6.7 GHz are well known tracers of high-mass star-forming regions. However, their origin is still not clearly understood. We aimed to determine the morphology and velocity structure for a large sample of the maser emission…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-03-02 Anna Bartkiewicz , Marian Szymczak , Huib J. van Langevelde

An increasing number of non-terminal giant eruptions are being observed by modern supernova and transient surveys. But very little is known about the origin of these giant eruptions and their progenitors, many of which are presumably very…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 Skyler Grammer , Roberta M. Humphreys

The results of a survey searching for outflows using near-infrared imaging is presented. Targets were chosen from a compiled list of massive young stellar objects (YSOs) associated with methanol masers in linear distributions. Presently, it…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 James M. De Buizer

Maser lines of OH, H2 O, and SiO are commonly observed in O-rich AGB stars, but their presence after the end of the Asymptotic Giant Branch (AGB) phase is linked to non-spherical mass-loss processes. IRAS 15452-5459 is a post-AGB star with…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 L. Cerrigone , K. M. Menten , H. Wiesemeyer

We report the results of a sensitive search for 12.2 GHz methanol maser emission towards a sample of eight high-mass star formation regions in the Large Magellanic Clouds which have been detected in other maser transitions. We detected one…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-14 S. P. Ellingsen , S. L. Breen , J. L. Caswell , L. J. Quinn , G. A. Fuller

Millisecond pulsars have been discussed as a possible source of the gamma-ray excess observed from the region surrounding the Galactic Center. With this in mind, we use the observed population of bright low-mass X-ray binaries to estimate…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-03-01 Ilias Cholis , Dan Hooper , Tim Linden

We conducted VLA C-configuration observations to measure positions and luminosities of Galactic Class II 6.7 GHz methanol masers and their associated ultra-compact H II regions. The spectral resolution was 3.90625 kHz and the continuum…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-12-14 Bo Hu , Karl M. Menten , Yuanwei Wu , Anna Bartkiewicz , Kazi Rygl , Mark J. Reid , James S. Urquhart , Xingwu Zheng

We report the results of ongoing monitoring of the 6.7 GHz CH$_3$OH masers associated with G188.95+0.89. In these observations five features are periodically varying and at least two exhibit evidence of velocity drifts. It is not clear the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-07-14 M. M. Mutie , J. O. Chibueze , K. El Bouchefry , G. C. MacLeod , J. Morgan , P. Baki