Water masers in M31. I. Recombination lines Virtual Observatory Resource

Authors
  1. Darling J.
  2. Gerard B.
  3. Amiri N.
  4. Lawrence K.
  5. Published by
    CDS
Abstract

We report the results of a Green Bank Telescope survey for water masers, ammonia (1,1) and (2,2), and the H66{alpha} recombination line toward 506 luminous compact 24{mu}m emitting regions in the Andromeda Galaxy (M31). We include the 206 sources observed in the Darling water maser survey for completeness. The survey was sensitive enough to detect any maser useful for ~10{mu}as/yr astrometry. No new water masers, ammonia lines, or H66{alpha} recombination lines were detected individually or in spectral stacks reaching rms noise levels of ~3mJy and ~0.2mJy, respectively, in 3.1-3.3km/s channels. The lack of detections in individual spectra and in the spectral stacks is consistent with Galactic extrapolations. Contrary to previous assertions, there do not seem to be any additional bright water masers to be found in M31. The strong variability of water masers may enable new maser detections in the future, but variability may also limit the astrometric utility of known (or future) masers because flaring masers must also fade.

Keywords
  1. astrophysical-masers
  2. radio-astronomy
  3. interstellar-medium
  4. infrared-sources
Bibliographic source Bibcode
2016ApJ...826...24D
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doi:10.26093/cds/vizier.18260024

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History

2016-10-27T08:10:40Z
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2016-10-27T08:10:40Z
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2018-01-30T07:18:24Z
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