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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

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

A southern hemisphere survey of methanol emission sources has been carried out using the ATNF Mopra millimetre telescope. 85 sources, the majority of them masers, have been detected in the 8(0)-7(1)A+ transition of methanol at 95 GHz.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 I. E. Val'tts , S. P. Ellingsen , V. I. Slysh , S. V. Kalenskii , R. Otrupcek , G. M. Larinov

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

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

MERLIN phase-referenced polarimetric observations towards the W51 complex were carried out in March 2006 in the Class II methanol maser transition at 6.668 GHz and three of the four excited OH maser hyperfine transitions at 6 GHz. Methanol…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-04 Sandra Etoka , Malcolm D. Gray , Gary A. Fuller

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

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

We investigate the kinematics of high mass protostellar objects within the high mass star forming region IRAS 19410+2336. We performed high angular resolution observations of 6.7-GHz methanol and 22 GHz water masers using the MERLIN…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-05-25 M. S. Darwish , K. A. Edris , A. M. S. Richards , S. Etoka , M. S. Saad , M. M. Beheary , G. A Fuller

We have compared the occurrence of 6.7-GHz and 12.2-GHz methanol masers with 22-GHz water masers and 6035-MHz excited-state OH masers in the 100 square degree region of the southern Galactic plane common to the Methanol Multibeam (MMB) and…

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

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 present the first EVN parallax measurements of 6.7 GHz methanol masers in star forming regions of the Galaxy. The 6.7 GHz methanol maser transition is a very valuable astrometric tool, for its large stability and confined velocity…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-12-09 K. L. J. Rygl , A. Brunthaler , K. M. Menten , M. J. Reid , H. J. van Langevelde

We report the result of a systematic methanol observation toward IRAS 19312+1950. The properties of the SiO, H2O and OH masers of this object are consistent with those of mass-losing evolved stars, but some other properties are difficult to…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-08-06 Jun-ichi Nakashima , Andrej M. Sobolev , Svetlana V. Salii , Yong Zhang , Bosco H. K. Yung , Shuji Deguchi

Methanol masers which are traditionally divided into two classes provide possibility to study important parts of the star forming regions: Class~II masers trace vicinities of the massive YSOs while class~I masers are likely to trace more…

We present the results of studies of a new class of 6.7 GHz methanol maser sources with a ring-like emission structure discovered recently with the EVN. We have used the VLA to search for water masers at 22 GHz and radio continuum at 8.4…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-03-18 A. Bartkiewicz , M. Szymczak , H. J. van Langevelde , J. M. De Buizer , Y. Pihlström

Using the 870-$\mu$m APEX Telescope Large Area Survey of the Galaxy (ATLASGAL), we have identified 577 submillimetre continuum sources with masers from the methanol multibeam (MMB) survey in the region $280\degr < \ell < 20\degr$; $|\,b\,|…

We report the results of 870-$\mu$m continuum observations, using the Large APEX Bolometer Camera (LABOCA), towards 77 class-II, 6.7-GHz methanol masers identified by the Methanol Multibeam (MMB) survey to map the thermal emission from cool…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-23 J. S. Urquhart , T. J. T. Moore , K. M. Menten , C. König , F. Wyrowski , M. A. Thompson , T. Csengeri , S. Leurini , D. J. Eden

A southern hemisphere survey of methanol emission sources in two millimeter wave transitions has been carried out using the ATNF Mopra millimetre telescope. Sixteen emission sources have been detected in the 3(1)-4(0)A+ transition of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 I. E. Valtts , S. P. Ellingsen , V. I. Slysh , S. V. Kalenskii , R. Otrupcek , M. A. Voronkov

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