Excited-state hydroxyl maser polarimetry Virtual Observatory Resource

Authors
  1. Green J.A.
  2. Caswell J.L.
  3. McClure-Griffiths N.M.
  4. Published by
    CDS
Abstract

We present polarimetric maser observations with the Australia Telescope Compact Array of excited-state hydroxyl (OH) masers. We observed 30 fields of OH masers in full Stokes polarization with the Compact Array Broadband Backend at both the 6030 and 6035 MHz excited-state OH transitions, and the 6668 MHz methanol maser transition, detecting 70 sites of maser emission. Amongst the OH we found 112 Zeeman pairs, of which 18 exhibited candidate {pi} components. This is the largest single full polarimetric study of multiple sites of star formation for these frequencies, and the rate of 16 percent {pi} components clearly indicates that the {pi} component exists, and is comparable to the percentage recently found for ground-state transitions. This significant percentage of {pi} components, with consistent proportions at both ground- and excited-state transitions, argues against Faraday rotation suppressing the {pi} component emission. Our simultaneous observations of methanol found the expected low level of polarization, with no circular detected, and linear only found at the =<10 percent level for the brightest sources.

Keywords
  1. astrophysical-masers
  2. radio-astronomy
  3. polarimetry
  4. magnetic-fields
Bibliographic source Bibcode
2015MNRAS.451...74G
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ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/451/74
Document Object Identifer DOI
doi:10.26093/cds/vizier.74510074

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2019-12-16T08:16:50Z
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