MALT-45, a 7mm survey of the southern Galaxy Virtual Observatory Resource

Authors
  1. Jordan C.H.
  2. Walsh A.J.
  3. Lowe V.
  4. Voronkov M.A.
  5. Ellingsen S.P.,Breen S.L.
  6. Purcell C.R.
  7. Barnes P.J.
  8. Burton M.G.
  9. Cunningham M.R.,Hill T.
  10. Jackson J.M.
  11. Longmore S.N.
  12. Peretto N.
  13. Urquhart J.S.
  14. Published by
    CDS
Abstract

We present the first results from the MALT-45 (Millimetre Astronomer's Legacy Team-45GHz) Galactic Plane survey. We have observed 5 square degrees (l=330{deg}-335{deg}, b=+/-0.5{deg}) for spectral lines in the 7mm band (42-44 and 48-49GHz), including CS (1-0), class I CH_3_OH masers in the 7(0,7)-6(1,6) A^+^ transition and SiO (1-0) v=0,1,2,3. MALT-45 is the first unbiased, large-scale, sensitive spectral line survey in this frequency range. In this paper, we present data from the survey as well as a few intriguing results; rigorous analyses of these science cases are reserved for future publications. Across the survey region, we detected 77 class I CH_3_OH masers, of which 58 are new detections, along with many sites of thermal and maser SiO emission and thermal CS. We found that 35 class I CH_3_OH masers were associated with the published locations of class II CH_3_OH, H_2_O and OH masers but 42 have no known masers within 60 arcsec. We compared the MALT-45 CS with NH_3_ (1,1) to reveal regions of CS depletion and high opacity, as well as evolved star-forming regions with a high ratio of CS to NH_3_. All SiO masers are new detections, and appear to be associated with evolved stars from the Spitzer Galactic Legacy Infrared Mid-Plane Survey Extraordinaire (GLIMPSE). Generally, within SiO regions of multiple vibrational modes, the intensity decreases as v=1, 2, 3, but there are a few exceptions where v=2 is stronger than v=1.

Keywords
  1. surveys
  2. milky-way-galaxy
  3. astrophysical-masers
  4. radio-astronomy
Bibliographic source Bibcode
2015MNRAS.448.2344J
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doi:10.26093/cds/vizier.74482344

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