Precise positions of methanol masers Virtual Observatory Resource

Authors
  1. Caswell J.L.
  2. Published by
    CDS
Abstract

The Australia Telescope Compact Array (ATCA) has been used to determine positions for many southern methanol maser sites, with accuracy better than 1 arcsec. The results are presented here as a catalogue of more than 350 distinct sites, some of them new discoveries, and many others with positional precision 10-times better than existing published values. Clusters of 2 or 3 sites are occasionally found to account for single previously listed sources. This in turn reveals that the velocity range for each individual site is sometimes smaller than that of the originally tabulated (blended) source. Only a handful of examples then remain with a velocity range of more than 16km/s at a single compact (less than 2 arcsec) site. The precise methanol positions now allow apparent coincidences with OH masers to be confidently accepted or rejected; this has led to the important conclusion that, where a 1665-MHz OH maser lies in a massive star formation region, at more than 80 percent of the OH sites there is a precisely coincident methanol maser. The methanol precision achieved here will also allow clear comparisons with likely associated IR sources when the next generation of far-IR surveys produce precise positions.

Keywords
  1. astrophysical-masers
  2. radio-astronomy
  3. radio-sources
Bibliographic source Bibcode
2009PASA...26..454C
See also HTML
https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/cat/J/other/PASA/26.454
IVOA Identifier IVOID
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/other/PASA/26.454

Access

Web browser access HTML
http://vizier.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/VizieR-2?-source=J/other/PASA/26.454
https://vizier.iucaa.in/viz-bin/VizieR-2?-source=J/other/PASA/26.454
http://vizieridia.saao.ac.za/viz-bin/VizieR-2?-source=J/other/PASA/26.454
IVOA Table Access TAP
http://tapvizier.cds.unistra.fr/TAPVizieR/tap
Run SQL-like queries with TAP-enabled clients (e.g., TOPCAT).
IVOA Cone Search SCS
For use with a cone search client (e.g., TOPCAT).
http://vizier.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/conesearch/J/other/PASA/26.454/table1?
https://vizier.iucaa.in/viz-bin/conesearch/J/other/PASA/26.454/table1?
http://vizieridia.saao.ac.za/viz-bin/conesearch/J/other/PASA/26.454/table1?

History

2014-05-19T09:11:54Z
Resource record created
2014-05-19T09:11:54Z
Created
2014-11-20T10:13:37Z
Updated

Contact

Name
CDS support team
Postal Address
CDS, Observatoire de Strasbourg, 11 rue de l'Universite, F-67000 Strasbourg, France
E-Mail
cds-question@unistra.fr