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Molecules that trace the high-density regions of the interstellar medium have been observed in (ultra-)luminous (far-)infrared galaxies, in order to initiate multiple-molecule multiple-transition studies to evaluate the physical and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 W. A. Baan , C. Henkel , A. F. Loenen , A. Baudry , T. Wiklind

We report the detection of emission from the 6.7 GHz 5(1)-6(0)A+ transition of methanol towards the center of the nearby galaxy NGC4945. This is the first detection of emission in this transition beyond the local group. The isotropic…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-10-25 Simon Ellingsen , Tiege McCarty , Shari Breen , Maxim Voronkov

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 report the results of our systematic survey for Galactic 6.7 GHz Class II CH$_3$OH maser emission toward a sample of young stellar objects. The survey was conducted with the Shanghai Tianma Radio Telescope (TMRT). The sample consists of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-06-14 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

One of the most fundamental hypotheses in astrochemistry and astrobiology states that crucial biotic molecules like glycine (NH$_2$CH$_2$COOH) found in meteorites and comets are inherited from early phases of star formation. Most…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-09-19 Tadeus Carl , Eva Wirström , Per Bergman , Steven Charnley , Yo-Ling Chuang , Yi-Jehng Kuan

We present a (sub)millimeter line survey of the methanol maser outflow located in the massive star-forming region DR21(OH) carried out with the Submillimeter Array (SMA) at 217/227 GHz and 337/347 GHz. We find transitions from several…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-12-26 Ma. T. Orozco-Aguilera , Antonio Hernández-Gómez , Luis A. Zapata

OH(1720 MHz) and methanol masers are now recognized to be excellent probes of the interactions of supernova remnants with molecular clouds and tracers of massive star formation, respectively. To better understand the nature of star…

Context: We investigated the molecular gas associated with 6.7 GHz methanol masers throughout the Galaxy using a J=1-0 transition of the CO isotopologues. Methods:Using the 13.7-meter telescope at the Purple Mountain Observatory (PMO), we…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-09-05 Zhiyuan Ren , Yuefang Wu , Tie Liu , Lixin Li , Di Li , Binggang Ju

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

Amino acids are essential for the synthesis of protein. Amino acids contain both amine (R$-$NH$_{2}$) and carboxylic acid (R$-$COOH) functional groups, which help to understand the possible formation mechanism of life in the universe. Among…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-05-15 Arijit Manna , Sabyasachi Pal

We have used the Australia Telescope Compact Array (ATCA) to search for 6.7-GHz methanol maser emission towards 87 galaxies. We chose the target sources using several criteria, including far-IR luminosities and the presence of known OH…

Astrophysics · Physics 2020-11-25 C. J. Phillips , R. P. Norris , S. P. Ellingsen , D. P. Rayner

We present the first spatially resolved map of methanimine CH2NH in the prestellar core L1544 using the IRAM 30m telescope. The 2$_{0,2}$-1$_{0,1}$ line at 127 GHz was mapped with 20" resolution ($\sim$2800 au), revealing extended CH2NH…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-12-16 Yuxin Lin , Silvia Spezzano , Olli Sipilä , Jaime E. Pineda , Paola Caselli

The results of interferometric observations of the star-forming region S255IR in the frequency range 210--250 GHz are presented. The observations were carried out with the antenna array SMA (Hawaii, USA). Fifty-three molecules were…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-02-17 E. A. Mikheeva , S. V. Kalenskii , S. -Y. Liu , A. M. Sobolev , S. Kurtz

We present new observations of the quiescent giant molecular cloud GCM0.253+0.016 in the Galactic center, using the upgraded Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array. Observations were made at wavelengths near 1 cm, at K (24 to 26 GHz) and Ka (27…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-27 E. A. C. Mills , N. Butterfield , D. A. Ludovici , C. C. Lang , J. Ott , M. R. Morris , S. Schmitz

We report the first observations in a rare family of class II methanol maser transitions in both CH$_3$OH and $^{13}$CH$_3$OH toward three southern high-mass star formation regions, along with the first maser detected in the $^{13}$CH$_3$OH…

We present high-sensitivity CH 9 cm ON/OFF observations toward 18 extra-galactic continuum sources that have been detected with OH 18 cm absorption in the Millennium survey with the Arecibo telescope. CH emission was detected toward six of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-12-08 Ningyu Tang , Di Li , Gan Luo , Carl Heiles , Sheng-Li Qin , Junzhi Wang , Jifeng Xia , Longfei Chen

We have used the Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA) to search for 36 GHz and 44 GHz methanol (CH3OH) lines in a sample of 21 Galactic supernova remnants (SNRs). Mainly the regions of the SNRs with 1720 MHz OH masers were observed.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-18 Y. M. Pihlström , L. O. Sjouwerman , D. A. Frail , M. J. Claussen , R. A. Mesler , B. C. McEwen

We report the first detection in the interstellar medium of $N$-cyanomethanimine (H$_2$CNCN), the stable dimer of HCN of highest energy, and the most complex organic molecule identified in space containing the prebiotically relevant NCN…

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 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…