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We have used the NASA Tidbinbilla 70-m antenna to search for emission from the 2(1)-3(0)E 19.9-GHz transition of methanol. The search was targeted towards 22 star formation regions which exhibit maser emission in the 107.0-GHz 3(1)-4(0)A+…

The methylidyne radical CH is commonly used as a proxy for H$_2$ in the cold, neutral phase of the interstellar medium. The optical spectroscopy of CH is limited by interstellar extinction, whereas far-infrared observations provide an…

We report the first detection of a methanol maser in the 10(1)-9(2)A- transition at 23.4 GHz, discovered during the H2O southern Galactic Plane Survey (HOPS) with the 22-m Mopra radio telescope. In the region covered by HOPS, the 23.4 GHz…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-20 M. A. Voronkov , A. J. Walsh , J. L. Caswell , S. P. Ellingsen , S. L. Breen , S. N. Longmore , C. R. Purcell , J. S. Urquhart

The detection of complex organic molecules (COMs) toward dense, collapsing prestellar cores has sparked interest in the fields of astrochemistry and astrobiology, yet the mechanisms for COM formation are still debated. It was originally…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-04-05 Samantha Scibelli , Yancy Shirley

In the interstellar medium, the amide-type molecules play an important role in the formation of the prebiotic molecules in the hot molecular cores or high-mass star formation regions. The complex amide-related molecule cyanamide…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-11-02 Arijit Manna , Sabyasachi Pal

The polarized emission of astrophysical masers, especially OH and methanol lines, is an effective tool to study the magnetic field in high-mass star-forming regions. The magnetic field strength measurement via the Zeeman effect of OH maser…

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We present the discovery of the most distant OH megamaser to be observed in the main lines, using data from the MeerKAT International Giga-Hertz Tiered Extragalactic Exploration (MIGHTEE) survey. At a newly measured redshift of $z =…

We report detection of moderate to high-mass star formation in an infrared dark cloud (G11.11-0.12) where we discovered class II methanol and water maser emissions at 6.7 GHz and 22.2 GHz, respectively. We also observed the object in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Thushara Pillai , Friedrich Wyrowski , Karl M. Menten , Endrik Kr"ugel

We have performed a molecular line search toward the flaring 6.7-GHz masers G24.33+0.13 and G359.62-0.24 using the Australia Telescope Compact Array. We present spectra of the 6.7-GHz class~II methanol and 22.2-GHz water masers toward these…

A survey of the inner 8$^\circ \times 1^\circ$ of the Galactic plane toward the Galactic center has been carried out at the 1720 MHz transition of OH molecule using the VLA in its D configuration with a resolution of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-05-20 F. Yusef-Zadeh , W. M. Goss , D. A. Roberts , B. Robinson , D. A. Frail

We have used the Australia Telescope Compact Array (ATCA) to search for emission from the $4_{-1} \rightarrow 3_{0}E$ transition of methanol (36.2 GHz) towards the center of the nearby starburst galaxy NGC253. Two regions of emission were…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-22 Simon Ellingsen , Xi Chen , Hai-Hua Qiao , Willem Baan , Tao An , Juan Li , Shari Breen

The high-mass star-forming site G009.62+00.20E hosts the 6.7 GHz methanol maser source with the greatest flux density in the Galaxy which has been flaring periodically over the last ten years. We performed high-resolution astrometric…

We report the discovery of large amounts of cold (T ~ 10^4 K), chemically young gas in an overdensity of galaxies at redshift z ~ 1.6 in the Great Observatories Origins Deep Survey southern field (GOODS-S). The gas is identified thanks to…

The studies of the complex organic molecular lines towards the hot molecular cores at millimeter and submillimeter wavelengths provide instructive knowledge about the chemical complexity in the interstellar medium (ISM). We present the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-06-01 Arijit Manna , Sabyasachi Pal

We report the detection of the millimeter CH$_3$OH masers including a new detection of class I (11$_{0,11}$-10$_{1,10}$A) and class II (6$_{1,5}$-5$_{2,4}$E) maser transitions toward the high-mass protostar S255IR NIRS3 in post-burst phase.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-09-06 Giseon Baek , Jeong-Eun Lee , Neal J. Evans , Tomoya Hirota , Yuri Aikawa , Ji-hyun Kang , Jungha Kim , Jes K. Jørgensen

We have used the Australia Telescope National Facility Mopra 22-m antenna to search for 37.7-GHz (7(-2) - 8(-1}E) methanol masers towards a sample of thirty six class II methanol masers. The target sources are the most luminous class II…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-12 S. P. Ellingsen , S. L. Breen , M. A. Voronkov , J. R. Dawson

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 formaldehyde MegaMaser emission has been mapped for the three host galaxies IC\,860. IRAS\,15107$+$0724, and Arp\,220. Elongated emission components are found at the nuclear centres of all galaxies with an extent ranging between 30 to…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-05-31 Willem A. Baan , Tao An , Hans-Rainer Klöckner , Peter Thomasson

We have used the Australia Telescope Compact Array (ATCA) to conduct further observations of the 36.2-GHz ($4_{-1}\rightarrow3_0$E) methanol transition towards the nearby active galaxy NGC 4945. These observations have led to a more…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-08-22 Tiege P. McCarthy , Simon P. Ellingsen , Shari L. Breen , Christian Henkel , Maxim A. Voronkov