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The Arecibo Methanol Maser Galactic Plane Survey

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 March 2007

Jagadheep D. Pandian ,
Paul. F. Goldsmith  and
Avinash A. Deshpande
Jagadheep D. Pandian
Affiliation:
Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy, Auf dem Hügel 69, 53121 Bonn, Germany e-mail: [email protected]
Paul. F. Goldsmith
Affiliation:
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA 91109, USA
Avinash A. Deshpande
Affiliation:
Raman Research Institute, Bangalore 560080, India
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Abstract

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The Arecibo Methanol Maser Galactic Plane Survey (AMGPS) is a blind survey for 6.7 GHz methanol masers in a section of the Galactic plane visible from the Arecibo radio telescope. The survey for these signposts of massive star formation is complete at a flux density level of 0.27 Jy making it the most sensitive blind survey for methanol masers carried out to date, and resulted in the detection of 86 methanol masers, 48 of which are new discoveries. The properties of methanol masers discovered in the survey are consistent with their being associated with early phases of massive star formation. The data also show the tangent point of the Carina-Sagittarius spiral arm to be around a Galactic longitude of 49.6°.

Keywords

surveysstars: formationGalaxy: structure
Type
Contributed Papers
Information
Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union , Volume 3 , Symposium S242: Astrophysical Masers and their Environments , March 2007 , pp. 208 - 212
Copyright
Copyright © International Astronomical Union 2008

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