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The O I 135.56 nm line is covered by NASA's Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS) small explorer mission which studies how the solar atmosphere is energized. We here study the formation and diagnostic potential of this line by means…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-11-04 Hsiao-Hsuan Lin , Mats Carlsson

We present VLBA observations of the ground-state hydroxyl masers in W3(OH) at 0.02 km s-1 spectral resolution. Over 250 masers are detected, including 56 Zeeman pairs. Lineshapes are predominantly Gaussian or combinations of several…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Vincent L. Fish , Walter F. Brisken , Loránt O. Sjouwerman

We present observations of the famous OH/IR star OH26.5+0.6 obtained using the Mid-Infrared Interferometric Instrument MIDI at the European Southern Observatory (ESO) Very Large Telescope Interferometer VLTI. The emission of the dusty…

Several new main line OH masers have been detected in the nearby starburst galaxy M82. Eight masers have been detected to 5 sigma, six of which are new detections. Observations covering both the 1665 and 1667 MHz lines with both the Very…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. K. Argo , A. Pedlar , T. W. B. Muxlow , R. J. Beswick , S. Aalto , K. Wills , R. Booth

Context. The role of magnetic fields during the formation of high-mass stars is not yet fully understood, and the processes related to the early fragmentation and collapse are largely unexplored today. The high-mass star forming region…

Herbig-Haro objects are regions of shocked gas and dust which are produced when collimated outflows from a protostar interact with the surrounding dense gas. They have many similarities to supernova remnants which are interacting with…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-18 A. de Witt , M. Bietenholz , R. Booth , M. Gaylard

We report VLBA observations of maser emission from the rotationally excited doublet Pi 1/2, J=1/2 state of OH at 4765 MHz. We made phase-referenced observations of W3(OH) at both 4765 MHz and 1720 MHz and found emission in three fields…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Patrick Palmer , W. M. Goss , K. E. Devine

Using the Very Long Baseline Array and the European VLBI Network, we have observed 22.2 GHz H_2O and 1612 MHz OH masers in the "water fountain" source IRAS 18460-0151. The H_2O maser spectrum has a very wide line-of-sight velocity range…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 Hiroshi Imai , Shuji Deguchi , Jun-ichi Nakashima , Sun Kwok , Philip J. Diamond

We report the detection of 1720 and 1612 MHz OH ground-state satellite line maser regions in the starburst galaxy NGC253. We find ten compact maser features all of which are located along the narrow ridge of bright radio continuum emission…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 D. T. Frayer , E. R. Seaquist , D. A. Frail

We present a multiwavelength study of the gas distribution, kinematics and excitation of the OH megamaser galaxy IRAS 09320+6134 (UGC 5101) using Gemini Multi-Object Spectrograph Integral Field Unit, Hubble Space Telescope, and Very Large…

Context: The role of magnetic fields during high-mass star formation is a matter of fierce debate, yet only a few direct probes of magnetic field strengths are available. Aims: The magnetic field is detected in a number of massive…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 W. H. T. Vlemmings

We performed the new JVLA full polarization observations at 40-48 GHz (6.3-7.5 mm) towards the nearby ($d$ $=$147$\pm$3.4 pc) Class 0 YSO IRAS 16293-2422, and compare with the previous SMA observations reported by Rao et al. (2009; 2014).…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-09-19 Hauyu Baobab Liu , Yasuhiro Hasegawa , Tao-Chung Ching , Shih-Ping Lai , Naomi Hirano , Ramprasad Rao

We report the detection of the auroral radio emission from the early-type magnetic star HD142301. New VLA observations of HD142301 detected highly polarized amplified emission occurring at fixed stellar orientations. The coherent emission…

Scallop-shell stars, a recently discovered class of young M dwarfs, show complex optical light curves that are characterized by periodic dips as well as other features that are stable over tens to hundreds of rotation cycles. The origin of…

The study of ionized gas kinematics in high-z active galaxies plays a key part in our understanding of galactic evolution, in an age where nuclear activity was widespread and star formation close to its peak. We present a study of TXS…

We report polarimetry results of a merging cluster of galaxies Abell 2256 with Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (JVLA). We performed new observations with JVLA at S-band (2051-3947 MHz) and X-band (8051-9947 MHz) in the C array…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-10-07 Takeaki Ozawa , Hiroyuki Nakanishi , Takuya Akahori , Kenta Anraku , Motokazu Takizawa , Ikumi Takahashi , Sachiko Onodera , Yuya Tsuda , Yoshiaki Sofue

We present polarization observations of the dust continuum emission from IRAS 16293 which is a Class 0 protostar and is known to have at least two components, source A and B. These measurements were conducted by the Submillimeter Array…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2014-11-20 Ramprasad Rao , Josep Miquel Girart , Daniel P. Marrone , Shih-Ping Lai , Scott Schnee

Results of monitoring the H$_2$O and OH masers in W44C, located near the cometary HII region G34.3+0.15, are reported. Observations in the water-vapor line at $\lambda = 1.35$ cm were carried out on the 22-meter radio telescope of the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2011-11-22 E. E. Lekht , M. I. Pashchenko , G. M. Rudnitskii

We report sensitive ATCA radio-continuum observations toward IRAS 15596-5301 and 16272-4837, two luminous objects (> 2x10^4 Lsun) thought to represent massive star-forming regions in early stages of evolution (due to previously undetected…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-03-10 Guido Garay , Kate Brooks , Diego Mardones , Ray P. Norris , Michael G. Burton

Recent studies of methanol and ground-state OH masers at very high spectral resolution have shed new light on small-scale maser processes. The nearby source W3(OH), which contains numerous bright masers in several different transitions,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Vincent L. Fish , Loránt O. Sjouwerman