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12.2-GHz methanol maser MMB follow-up catalogue - IV. Longitude range 20°-60°
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Breen, SL and Ellingsen, SP and Caswell, JL and Green, JA and Voronkov, MA and Avison, A and Fuller, GA and Quinn, LJ, 12.2-GHz methanol maser MMB follow-up catalogue - IV. Longitude range 20 -60 , Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 459, (4) pp. 4066-4087. ISSN 0035-8711 (2016) [Refereed Article]
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Abstract
This is the fourth and final 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. This final portion of the survey covers the 20°–60° longitude range, increasing the 12.2-GHz follow-up range to the full MMB coverage of 186° ≥ l ≤ 60° and |b| ≤ 2°. Towards a total of 260 6.7-GHz MMB methanol masers (we were unable to observe five of the MMB sources in this longitude range) we detect 116 12.2-GHz masers counterparts, 64 of which were discovered in this survey. Including data from the literature, we find that there are 12.2-GHz methanol masers towards 47.1 per cent of the 6.7-GHz methanol masers in this portion of the Galaxy. Across the entire MMB survey range, we find a detection rate of 45.3 per cent. We find that the detection rate of 12.2-GHz methanol masers as a function of Galactic longitude is not uniform and there is an excess of masers with broad velocity ranges at longitudes near 30° and 330°. Comparing the occurrence of 12.2-GHz methanol masers with MMB-targeted CO observations has shown that those outflows associated with a 12.2-GHz source have a larger average dynamical time-scale than those associated with only 6.7-GHz methanol masers, supporting the notion that the 12.2-GHz masers are associated with a later phase of high-mass star formation.
Item Details
| Item Type: | Refereed Article |
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| Keywords: | masers - stars, formation - ISM, molecules - radiolines |
| Research Division: | Physical Sciences |
| Research Group: | Astronomical sciences |
| Research Field: | Galactic astronomy |
| Objective Division: | Expanding Knowledge |
| Objective Group: | Expanding knowledge |
| Objective Field: | Expanding knowledge in the physical sciences |
| UTAS Author: | Ellingsen, SP (Professor Simon Ellingsen) |
| ID Code: | 109829 |
| Year Published: | 2016 |
| Web of Science® Times Cited: | 13 |
| Deposited By: | Mathematics and Physics |
| Deposited On: | 2016-07-04 |
| Last Modified: | 2017-12-20 |
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