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The spectrophotometric flux calibration of recent spectroscopic surveys has reached a limiting systematic precision of approximately 1-3 percent, and is often biased near the wavelengths associated with H I Balmer absorption. As we prepare…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-12 Ryan Cooke , Nao Suzuki , J. Xavier Prochaska

We report the results of the first complete survey of an area of the Galactic Plane for maser emission from the 6.7-GHz transition of methanol. The survey covers a 10.6-square-degree region of the Galactic Plane in the longitude range…

We present the results of astrometic observations of H2O masers associated with the star forming region G192.16-3.84 with the VLBI Exploration of Radio Astrometry (VERA). The H2O masers seem to be associated with two young stellar objects…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-30 Satoshi Shiozaki , Hiroshi Imai , Daniel Tafoya , Toshihiro Omodaka , Tomoya Hirota , Mareki Honma , Makoto Matsui , Yuji Ueno

We present the spectral and spatial evolution of H$_2$O masers associated with the water fountain source IRAS 18043$-$2116 found in the observations with the Nobeyama 45 m telescope and the Australia Telescope Compact Array. We have found…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-05-10 L. Uscanga , H. Imai , J. F. Gómez , D. Tafoya , G. Orosz , T. P. McCarthy , Y. Hamae , K. Amada

We present astrometric analysis of archival data of water masers in the star-forming region Sharpless 269 (S269) IRS 2w, observed with the VLBI Exploration of Radio Astrometry. An annual parallax of one of the bright maser features in this…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-19 Yoshiharu Asaki , Hiroshi Imai , Andrej Mikhailovich Sobolev , Sergey Yurievich Parfenov

In this study we present 18 to 24 GHz and high angular resolution radio wavelength Australia Telescope Compact Array follow up observations towards a sample of 39 HC HII region candidates. These objects, taken from a sample hosting 6.7 GHz…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-08-15 A. L. Patel , J. S. Urquhart , A. Y. Yang , T. Moore , M. A. Thompson , K. M. Menten , T. Csengeri

Water fountains (WFs) are thought to be objects in the morphological evolution of the circumstellar envelopes of low- and intermediate-mass evolved stars, transitioning from spherically symmetric to asymmetric shapes. We used databases of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-10-10 Haichen Fan , Jun-ichi Nakashima , D. Engels , Yong Zhang , Jian-Jie Qiu , Huan-Xue Feng , Jia-Yong Xie , Hiroshi Imai , Chih-Hao Hsia

We report on the results of multi-epoch VLBI observations with VERA (VLBI Exploration of Radio Astrometry) of the 22 GHz H2O masers associated with the young stellar object SVS 13 in the NGC 1333 region. We have carried out…

A 22 GHz water maser survey was conducted towards 178 O-rich AGB stars with the aim of identifying maser emission associated with the Sagittarius stellar stream. In this survey, maser emissions were detected in 21 targets, of which 20 were…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-09-14 Yuanwei Wu , Bo Zhang , Jingjing Li , Xing-Wu Zheng

We have selected the positions of 54 6.7GHz methanol masers from the Methanol Multibeam Survey catalogue, covering a range of longitudes between $20^{\circ}$ and $34^{\circ}$ of the Galactic Plane. These positions were mapped in the J=3-2…

We have used the Westerbork array to carry out an unbiased wide-field survey for HI emission features, achieving an RMS sensitivity of about 18 mJy/Beam at a velocity resolution of 17 km/s over 1800 deg^2 and between -1000 < V_Hel<+6500…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 Robert Braun , David Thilker , Rene Walterbos

We describe a method to identify inclined water maser disks orbiting massive black holes and to potentially use them to measure black hole masses. Due to the geometry of maser amplification pathways, the minority of water maser disks are…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-03-15 Jeremy Darling

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

We present the coordinates, apparent magnitudes, and morphological types for 230 galaxies presumably identified with HIPASS (HI Parkes All-Sky Survey) sources. The new optical counterparts of the HIPASS sources follow the well-known…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-01-20 I. D. Karachentsev , D. I. Makarov , V. E. Karachentseva , O. V. Melnyk

The present paper focuses on the high-mass star-forming region G23.01-0.41. Methods: Using the VLBA and the EVN arrays, we conducted phase-referenced observations of the three most powerful maser species in G23.01-0.41: H2O at 22.2 GHz (4…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-18 A. Sanna , L. Moscadelli , R. Cesaroni , A. Tarchi , R. S. Furuya , C. Goddi

The detection of 22 GHz water vapor emission from IC342 is reported, raising the detection rate among northern galaxies with 100 micron IRAS point source fluxes > 50 Jy to 16%. The maser, associated with a star forming region 10-15 arcsec…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 A. Tarchi , C. Henkel , A. B. Peck , K. M. Menten

We have carried out a multi-epoch simultaneous survey of 22 GHz H$_2$O and 44 GHz Class I CH$_3$OH masers toward 103 ultracompact HII regions (UCHIIs) between 2010 and 2017. We detected H$_2$O and CH$_3$OH maser emission in 74 (72%) and 55…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-09-04 Won-Ju Kim , Kee-Tae Kim , Kwang-Tae Kim

We present the results of a narrow-band near-infrared imaging survey for Molecular Hydrogen emission-line Objects (MHOs) toward 26 regions containing high-mass protostellar candidates and massive molecular outflows. We have detected a total…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-07-26 G. Wolf-Chase , K. Arvidsson , M. Smutko

We present new maser emission from ^{14}NH_3 (9,6) in NGC 7538. Our observations include the known spectral features near v_LSR = -60 km/s and -57 km/s and several more features extending to -46 km/s. In three epochs of observation spanning…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-30 Ian M. Hoffman , Stella Seojin Kim

This study uses archival high frequency continuum data to expand the search for Hypercompact HII regions and determine the conditions at which they appear, as this stage high mass star formation is short-lived and rare. We use 23 GHz…