Accurate OH maser positions from SPLASH. III. Virtual Observatory Resource

Authors
  1. Qiao H.-H.
  2. Breen S.L.
  3. Gomez J.F.
  4. Dawson J.R.
  5. Walsh A.J.
  6. Green J.A.,Ellingsen S.P.
  7. Imai H.
  8. Shen Z.-Q.
  9. Published by
    CDS
Abstract

We present high spatial resolution observations of ground-state OH masers achieved with the Australia Telescope Compact Array (ATCA). These observations targeted 253 pointing centers containing OH maser candidates at all four ground-state OH transitions identified in the Southern Parkes Large-Area Survey in Hydroxyl (SPLASH) across 96deg^2^ of the southern Galactic plane (332{deg}<l<334{deg} and -2{deg}<b<+2{deg}, 344{deg}<l<355{deg} and -2{deg}<b<+2{deg}, 358{deg}<l<4{deg} and +2{deg}<b<+6{deg}, 5{deg}<l<10{deg} and -2{deg}<b<+2{deg}). We detect maser emission toward 236 fields and suggest that 7 out of 17 nondetections are due to the slightly lower sensitivity of the ATCA observations, combined with some temporal variability. The superior resolution provided by the ATCA data has allowed us to identify 362 OH maser sites in the 236 target fields. Almost half (160 of 362) of these masers have been detected for the first time. Comparison between these 362 maser sites and information presented in the literature allowed us to categorize 238 sites as evolved star sites (66%), 63 as star formation (17%), 8 as supernova remnants, and 53 as unknown maser sites (15%). We present an analysis of the OH masers across the full SPLASH survey range (176deg^2^) and find that the detection rate of 1.7GHz radio continuum sources (18%) is lower than that previously found at 8.2 and 9.2GHz (38%). We also find that the velocity separations of evolved star sites with symmetric 1612MHz maser profiles are generally smaller than those with asymmetric profiles.

Keywords
  1. astrophysical-masers
  2. radio-astronomy
  3. radio-continuum-emission
  4. galaxy-planes
  5. milky-way-galaxy
Bibliographic source Bibcode
2020ApJS..247....5Q
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2020-06-18T06:07:14Z
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