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The results of a survey searching for outflows using near-infrared imaging is presented. Targets were chosen from a compiled list of massive young stellar objects (YSOs) associated with methanol masers in linear distributions. Presently, it…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 James M. De Buizer

We present a survey of OH maser emission towards a sample of high mass protostellar objects made using the Nancay and GBT telescopes.OH maser emission was detected towards 63 objects with 36 new detections. There are 56 star-forming regions…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 K. A. Edris , G. A. Fuller , R. J . Cohen

We report the results of a search for class II methanol masers at 37.7, 38.3 and 38.5 GHz towards a sample of 70 high-mass star formation regions. We primarily searched towards regions known to show emission either from the 107 GHz class II…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-30 S. P. Ellingsen , S. L. Breen , A. M. Sobolev , M. A. Voronkov , J. L. Caswell , N. Lo

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

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

I present here the summary of results from a survey by De Buizer (2003) searching for outflows using near-infrared imaging. Targets were massive young stellar objects associated with methanol masers in linear distributions. Presently, it is…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 James M. De Buizer

The 22.2 GHz water masers are often associated with the 6.7 GHz methanol masers but owing to the different excitation conditions they likely probe independent spatial and kinematic regions around the powering young massive star. We compared…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-04 Anna Bartkiewicz , Marian Szymczak , Huib Jan van Langevelde

We present high angular resolution Submillimeter Array (SMA) and Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA) observations of the massive protocluster G18.67+0.03. Previously targeted in maser surveys of GLIMPSE Extended Green Objects (EGOs), this…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-11 C. J. Cyganowski , C. L. Brogan , T. R. Hunter , Q. Zhang , R. K. Friesen , R. Indebetouw , C. J. Chandler

Methanol masers at 6.7 GHz are associated with high-mass star-forming regions (HMSFRs) and often have mid-infrared (MIR) counterparts characterized by extended emission at 4.5 $\mu$m, which likely traces outflows from massive young stellar…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2014-05-08 Anna Bartkiewicz , Marian Szymczak , Huib van Langevelde

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

The results of a maser survey toward ninety-nine protostars in the Orion molecular cloud complex are presented. The target sources are low-mass protostars identified from infrared observations. Single-dish observations were carried out in…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-17 Miju Kang , Jeong-Eun Lee , Minho Choi , Yunhee Choi , Kee-Tae Kim , James Di Francesco , Yong-Sun Park

The European VLBI Network (EVN) has been used to make phase referenced, wide-field (several arcminute) spectral line observations of the 6.7-GHz methanol maser emission towards W51. In the W51main region, the bulk of the methanol is offset…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 C. J. Phillips , H. J. van Langevelde

This is the second paper in a series of catalogues of 22-GHz water maser observations towards the 6.7-GHz methanol masers from the Methanol Multibeam (MMB) Survey. In this paper we present our water maser observations made with the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-03-23 A. M. Titmarsh , S. P. Ellingsen , S. L. Breen , J. L. Caswell , M. A. Voronkov

We present 247-GHz molecular line observations of methanol (CH$_3$OH) toward sixteen massive star-forming regions, using the APEX telescope with an angular resolution of $25''$. The sample covers a range of evolutionary states, including…

We analyzed the 3-mm wavelength spectral line survey of 408 ATLASGAL clumps observed with the IRAM 30m-telescope, focusing on the class I methanol masers with frequencies near 84, 95 and 104.3 GHz. We detect narrow, maser-like features…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-07-12 W. Yang , Y. Gong , K. M. Menten , J. S. Urquhart , C. Henkel , F. Wyrowski , T. Csengeri , S. P. Ellingsen , A. R. Bemis , J. Jang

Methanol masers at 6.7~GHz are well-known signposts of high-mass star-forming regions. [...] We aim to understand the origin of the ring-like structures outlined by methanol maser emission in a number of sources. This emission could be, a…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-06-19 A. Bartkiewicz , A. Sanna , M. Szymczak , L. Moscadelli , H. J. van Langevelde , P. Wolak , A. Kobak , M. Durjasz

We present a survey of the polarization properties of mm-wavelength methanol masers, comprising both classes, and transitions from 84.5 to 157.0 GHz. Linear polarization is found in more than half of the observed objects, and circular…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Helmut Wiesemeyer , Clemens Thum , Malcolm Walmsley

We have used the Australia Telescope National Facility Mopra 22m millimetre telescope to search for emission from the 85.5-GHz and 86.6-GHz transitions of methanol. The search was targeted towards 22 star formation regions which exhibit…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 S. P. Ellingsen , D. M. Cragg , V. Minier , E. Muller , P. D. Godfrey

We argue that the periodic variability of Class II methanol masers can be explained by variations of the dust temperature in the accretion disk around proto-binary star with at least one massive component. The dust temperature variations…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2014-08-27 S. Yu. Parfenov , A. M. Sobolev

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