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- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/PASJ/62/525
- Title:
- SiO maser survey off the Galactic Plane
- Short Name:
- J/PASJ/62/525
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- A group of Mira variables in the solar neighborhood shows unusual spatial motion in the Galaxy. To study this motion on a much larger scale in the Galaxy, we newly surveyed 134 evolved stars off the Galactic plane by SiO maser lines, obtaining accurate radial velocities of 84 detected stars. Together with the past data of SiO maser sources, we analyzed the radial-velocity data of a large sample of sources distributed in a distance range of about 0.3-6kpc in the first Galactic quadrant. At Galactic longitudes between 20{deg} and 40{deg}, we found a group of stars with large negative radial velocities, which deviate by more than 100km/s from the Galactic rotation. We show that these deviant motions of maser stars are created by periodic gravitational perturbation of the Bulge bar, and that the effect appears most strongly at radii between corotation and outer Lindblad resonances. The resonance effect can explain the displacement of positions from the Galactic plane as well.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/PASJ/56/765
- Title:
- SiO maser survey of IRAS sources
- Short Name:
- J/PASJ/56/765
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We surveyed 401 color-selected IRAS sources in the galactic disk in the SiO J=1-0, v=1 and 2 maser lines at 43GHz, resulting in 254 (239 new) detections. The observed sources lie mostly in a strip of the inner galactic disk with boundaries -10{deg}<l<40{deg} and |b|<3{deg}. This survey provides radial velocities of inner-disk stars for which optical measurements cannot be made due to interstellar extinction.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/PASJ/64/4
- Title:
- SiO maser survey of nearby red variables
- Short Name:
- J/PASJ/64/4
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- In order to study the streaming motions of miras in the Solar neighborhood, we newly surveyed 379 red variables in the SiO maser lines at 42.821 and 43.122GHz with the Nobeyama 45m radio telescope. Accurate radial velocities were obtained for 229 (220 new) detected stars. The sample was selected from optical variables found by new automated surveys: the Northern Sky Variability Survey and the All Sky Automated Survey. The new sample consists of "bluer" objects compared with those observed in the previous SiO surveys. The distances to the objects were estimated using the period-luminosity relation, and they are mostly less than 3kpc from the Sun. The longitude-velocity diagram reveals three prominent groups of stars deviant from circular galactic rotation with a flat rotation curve. In addition to the Hercules group of stars, which was studied before, we found two new deviant groups: one toward the Perseus arm and the other toward the Sagittarius arm. These two groups both exhibit anomalous motions toward the galactic center, which seem to be consistent with the noncircular motions of these spiral arms found in recent VLBI proper-motion measurements for maser gas clumps.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/PASJ/55/203
- Title:
- SiO maser survey toward inner Galactic disk
- Short Name:
- J/PASJ/55/203
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present the results of an SiO maser survey for color-selected IRAS sources in the area 40{deg}<l<70{deg} and |b|<10{deg} in the SiO J=1-0, v=1 and 2 transitions (~43GHz). We detected 134 out of 272 observed sources in SiO masers; 127 were new detections. A systematic difference in the detection rates between SiO and OH maser searches was found.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/439/2584
- Title:
- Southern methanol masers at 36 and 44GHz
- Short Name:
- J/MNRAS/439/2584
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The Australia Telescope Compact Array (ATCA) has been used for high angular resolution imaging of 71 southern class I methanol maser sources quasi-simultaneously at 36 and 44GHz. The data reveal a high level of morphological and kinematical complexity, and allow us to demonstrate associations, at arcsecond precision, of the class I maser emission with outflows, expanding HII regions, dark clouds, shocks traced by the 4.5-micron emission and 8.0-micron filaments. More than 700 maser component features were found at each of the two methanol transitions, but with only 23 per cent recognisable at both transitions; the morphology of class I emission is much better revealed by our survey of both transitions, compared with either one alone. We found that the number of masers falls exponentially with the projected linear distance from the associated class II 6.7-GHz methanol maser. This distribution has a scale of 263+/-15-milliparsec, irrespective of the transition. The class I masers associated with OH masers were found to have a tendency to be more spread out, both spatially and in the velocity domain. This is consistent with the expectation that such sources are more evolved. Apart from a small number of high-velocity components (which are largely blue-shifted and predominantly seen at 36GHz), the velocity distribution was found to be Gaussian, peaking near the systemic velocity of the region, which had been estimated as the middle of the velocity interval of the associated class II methanol maser at 6.7GHz. The mean indicated a small, but significant blue shift asymmetry of -0.57km/s (uncertainties are 0.06 and 0.07km/s for the 36- and 44-GHz masers, respectively) with respect to the 6.7GHz masers. The standard deviation of the velocity distribution was found to be 3.65+/-0.05 and 3.32+/-0.07km/s for the 36- and 44GHz masers, respectively. We also suggest a refined rest frequency value of 36169.238+/-0.011MHz for the 4_-1_-3_0_E methanol transition.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/132/2596
- Title:
- Spectroscopy of Ultraluminous IR galaxies
- Short Name:
- J/AJ/132/2596
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We investigate the types of nuclear environments that produce OH megamasers (OHMs) with a study of the optical spectra of 40 OHM host galaxies and a control sample of 30 non-masing (ultra)luminous infrared galaxies ([U]LIRGs). The optical spectrophotometry provides spatially resolved spectra of multiple nuclei in a few of these merging systems. Of the 40 OHMs classified, 33% are starbursts, 42% are LINERs, and 25% are Seyfert 2 galaxies; the classification of the non-masing control sample is similar.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/605/A76
- Title:
- Spectrum of Orion KL between 41.5 and 50GHz
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/605/A76
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We resent a sensitive spectral survey of Orion KL in Q-band (7mm), made with one of the 34m antennas of the Madrid Deep Space Communications Complex in Robledo de Chavela, Spain.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/569/A125
- Title:
- Spiral structure of the Milky Way
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/569/A125
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We have updated the catalogs of Galactic HII regions, giant molecular clouds (GMCs), and 6.7-GHz methanol masers to outline the spiral structure of our Galaxy. The related parameters have been collected and (re)calculated based on the data in the literature. In particular, for each spiral tracer, we list the photometric or trigonometric distance, and/or the solutions of the kinematic distance ambiguity (KDA) when available. The kinematic distances when adopted are calculated using a flat rotation curve with two sets of R_0_, {Theta}_0_, and solar motions, where one set is the IAU standard and the other is from the new observational results. The rotation curve of Brand & Blitz (1993, Cat. J/A+A/275/67) is also used to derive the kinematic distances.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/other/RAA/18.146
- Title:
- Spiral structure of the Milky Way
- Short Name:
- J/other/RAA/18.1
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The morphology and kinematics of the spiral structure of the Milky Way are long-standing problems in astrophysics. In this review we firstly summarize various methods with different tracers used to solve this puzzle. The astrometry of Galactic sources is gradually alleviating this difficult situation caused mainly by large distance uncertainties, as we can currently obtain accurate parallaxes (a few {mu}as) and proper motions (~1km/s) by using Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI). On the other hand, the Gaia mission is providing the largest, uniform sample of parallaxes for O-type stars in the entire Milky Way. Based upon the VLBI maser and Gaia O-star parallax measurements, nearby spiral structures of the Perseus, Local, Sagittarius and Scutum Arms are determined in unprecedented detail. Meanwhile, we estimate fundamental Galactic parameters of the distance to the Galactic center, R_0_, to be 8.35+/-0.18kpc, and circular rotation speed at the Sun, {THETA}_0_, to be 240+/-10km/s. We found kinematic differences between O stars and interstellar masers: the O stars, on average, rotate faster, >8km/s than maser-traced high-mass star forming regions.
