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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

The 6.7~GHz methanol maser transition is exclusively associated with young, high-mass stars and represents a potential target for astrometric studies, including accurate determination of their distance through trigonometric parallax…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-10-21 Lucas J. Hyland , Simon P. Ellingsen , Mark J. Reid

Milliarcsecond VLBI maps of regions containing 6.7 GHz methanol maser emission have lead to the recent discovery of ring-like distributions of maser spots and the plausible hypothesis that they may be tracing circumstellar disks around…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 James M. De Buizer , Anna Bartkiewicz , Marian Szymczak

The Australia Telescope Compact Array (ATCA) has been used to image class I methanol masers at 9.9, 25 (a series from J=2 to J=9), 84, 95 and 104 GHz located in the vicinity of IRAS 16547-4247 (G343.12-0.06), a luminous young stellar object…

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 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

Methanol masers at 6.7 GHz are known to be tracers of high-mass star formation in our Galaxy. In this paper, we study the large scale physical conditions in the star forming clumps/cores associated with 6.7 GHz methanol masers using…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 J. D. Pandian , F. Wyrowski , K. M. Menten

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

Ring-like distributions of the 6.7 GHz methanol maser spots at milliarcsecond scales represent a family of molecular structures of unknown origin associated with high-mass young stellar objects (HMYSOs). We aim to study G23.657-00.127,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-05-06 Anna Bartkiewicz , Alberto Sanna , Marian Szymczak , Luca Moscadelli , Huib Jan van Langevelde , Pawel Wolak

22 GHz water and 6.7 GHz methanol masers are usually thought as signposts of early stages of high-mass star formation but little is known about their associations and the physical environments they occur in. The aim was to obtain accurate…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-19 A. Bartkiewicz , M. Szymczak , Y. M. Pihlström , H. J. van Langevelde , A. Brunthaler , M. J. Reid

The Australia Telescope Compact Array (ATCA) has been used to map class I methanol masers at 36 and 44 GHz in G309.38-0.13. Maser spots are found at nine locations in an area of 50''x30'', with both transitions reliably detected at only two…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-19 M. A. Voronkov , J. L. Caswell , T. R. Britton , J. A. Green , A. M. Sobolev , S. P. Ellingsen

The Australia Telescope Compact Array has been used to search for 22-GHz water masers towards the 119 6.7-GHz methanol masers detected in the Methanol Multi-Beam survey between Galactic longitudes 6 and 20 degrees; we find water masers…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 A. M. Titmarsh , S. P. Ellingsen , S. L. Breen , J. L. Caswell , M. A. Voronkov

We characterize the molecular environment of candidate massive young stellar objects (MYSOs) signposted by methanol masers. Single pixel observations of 10 transitions of HCO^+, CO and CS isotopomers were carried out, using the IRAM 30m…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 M. Szymczak , A. Bartkiewicz , A. M. S. Richards

We conducted VLA C-configuration observations to measure positions and luminosities of Galactic Class II 6.7 GHz methanol masers and their associated ultra-compact H II regions. The spectral resolution was 3.90625 kHz and the continuum…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-12-14 Bo Hu , Karl M. Menten , Yuanwei Wu , Anna Bartkiewicz , Kazi Rygl , Mark J. Reid , James S. Urquhart , Xingwu Zheng

We report a multi-epoch, simultaneous 22 GHz H2O and 44 GHz class I CH3OH maser line survey towards 180 intermediate-mass young stellar objects, including 14 Class 0, 19 Class I objects, and 147 Herbig Ae/Be stars. We detected H2O and CH3OH…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-30 Jae-Han Bae , Kee-Tae Kim , So-Young Youn , Won-Ju Kim , Do-Young Byun , Hyunwoo Kang , Chung Sik Oh

We present an interferometric survey of the 44 GHz class I methanol maser transition toward a sample of 69 sources consisting of High Mass Protostellar Object candidates and Ultracompact (UC) H II regions. We found a 38% detection rate (16…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-02-17 A. I. Gómez-Ruiz , S. E. Kurtz , E. D. Araya , P. Hofner , L. Loinard

As the recent publication by Breen et al (2013) found Class II methanol masers are exclusively associated with high mass star forming regions. Based on the positions of the Class I and II methanol and H$_{2}$O masers, UC H II regions and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2014-11-19 Hontas Farmer

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

We report on a large 44 GHz ($7_0-6_1$ A$^+$) methanol (CH$_3$OH) maser survey of the Galactic Center (GC). The Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array was used to search for CH$_3$OH maser emission covering a large fraction of the region around…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-12-07 Bridget McEwen , Loránt Sjouwerman , Ylva Pihlström

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…