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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

We report the results of our pilot millimeter observations of periodic maser sources. Using SMA, we carried out 1.3\,mm observations of G22.357$+$0.066 and G25.411$+$0.105, while ALMA 1.3 mm archival data was used in the case of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-08-11 J. Morgan , D. J. van der Walt , J. O. Chibueze , Q. Zhang

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

The role of magnetic fields during the protostellar phase of high-mass star-formation is a debated topic. In particular, it is still unclear how magnetic fields influence the formation and dynamic of disks and outflows. Most current…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 G. Surcis , W. H. T. Vlemmings , R. Dodson , H. J. van Langevelde

We have compared the occurrence of 6.7-GHz and 12.2-GHz methanol masers with 22-GHz water masers and 6035-MHz excited-state OH masers in the 100 square degree region of the southern Galactic plane common to the Methanol Multibeam (MMB) and…

We present detailed modeling of periodic flaring events in the 6.7 GHz and 12.2 GHz methanol lines as well as the OH 1665 MHz and 1667 MHz transitions observed in the G9.62+0.20E star-forming region. Our analysis is performed within the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-09-06 F. Rajabi , M. Houde , G. C. MacLeod , S. Goedhart , Y. Tanabe , S. P. van den Heever , C. M. Wyenberg , Y. Yonekura

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

The ATCA has been used to measure positions with arcsecond accuracy for 379 masers at the 22-GHz transition of water. The principal observation targets were 202 OH masers of the variety associated with star formation regions (SFR)s in the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-18 Shari Breen , James Caswell , Simon Ellingsen , Chris Phillips

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

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 present new evidence for superradiance in the methanol 6.7 GHz spectral line for three different star-forming regions: S255IR-NIRS3, G24.329+0.144, and Cepheus A. Our analysis shows that some of the intensity flares exhibiting fast flux…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-01-23 F. Rajabi , M. Houde , A. Bartkiewicz , M. Olech , M. Szymczak , P. Wolak

The massive young stellar object (MYSO) G358.93-0.03-MM1 showed an extraordinary near-infrared- to (sub-)millimetre-dark and far-infrared-loud accretion burst, which is closely associated with flares of several class II methanol maser…

Class I methanol masers are collisionally pumped and are generally correlated with outflows in star forming sites in the Galaxy. Using the VLA in its A-array configuration, we present a spectral line survey to identify methanol…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-12-14 W. Cotton , F. Yusef-Zadeh

We have used the Australia Telescope Compact Array (ATCA) to make the first high resolution observations of a large sample of class~I methanol masers in the 95-GHz ($8_0$--$7_1$A$^+$) transition. The target sources consist of a…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-03-28 Tiege P. McCarthy , Simon P. Ellingsen , Maxim A. Voronkov , Giuseppe Cimo

Class II methanol (CH$_{3}$OH) masers are amongst the clearest signposts of recent high-mass star formation (HMSF). A complete catalogue outlines the distribution of star formation in the Galaxy, the number of young star-forming cores, and…

We have conducted the first parallax and proper motion measurements of 6.7 GHz methanol maser emission using the Australian Long Baseline Array (LBA). The parallax of G339.884$-$1.259 measured from five epochs of observations is 0.48$\pm…

We present a study of molecular outflows using high-resolution mapping of the CO (1-0) line emission toward eight relatively nearby 6.7 GHz methanol masers, which are associated with massive star forming regions. Outflows were detected in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Y. Xu , Z. -Q. Shen , J. Yang , X. W. Zheng , A. Miyazaki , K. Sunada , H. J. Ma , J. J. Li , J. X. Sun , C. C. Pei

A sensitive search for 6.7--GHz methanol maser emission has been made towards 10 galaxies that have yielded detectable microwave molecular--line transitions. These include several which show OH megamaser or superluminous \water\/ maser…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 S. P. Ellingsen , R. P. Norris , J. B. Whiteoak , R. A. Vaile , P. M. McCulloch , M. Price

This work presents a detailed study of the gas kinematics towards the "Hot Molecular Core" (HMC) G31.41+0.31 via multi-epoch VLBI observations of the H2O 22 GHz and CH3OH 6.7 GHz masers, and single-epoch VLBI of the OH 1.6 GHz masers. Water…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 Luca Moscadelli , Jing Jing Li , Riccardo Cesaroni , Alberto Sanna , Ye Xu , Qizhou Zhang

Methanol masers which are traditionally divided into two classes provide possibility to study important parts of the star forming regions: Class~II masers trace vicinities of the massive YSOs while class~I masers are likely to trace more…