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We have carried out detailed studies of a star-forming region containing two maser sources in the constellation Norma. The sources display a complex spectral distribution of the maser lines and spatial distribution of the maser condensations. The maser condensations may have formed around objects that are hidden by dense molecular cocoons; the velocities of the maser features may represent Keplerian orbital motions. The cocoons, which radiate in thermal methanol and CS lines, correspond to the centers of mass in the maser sources + dense molecular core systems. The velocities of the CS lines or thermal methanol lines can be used to identify the locations of the centers of mass of these systems. If the maser radiation is generated in the atmospheres of protoplanets, the Norma radio source may correspond to two protoplanetary disks, each with a protostar and protoplanetary system. In this case, the masses of the protostars are approximately 13 M⊙ and 38 M⊙. 相似文献
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The distribution of the radial velocities of class I methanol masers relative to the velocities of their parent molecular clouds is analyzed. This analysis is based on catalog data for methanol masers detected up to the present time in both the northern and southern hemispheres, together with catalog data for the CS(2-1) line, which traces dense, quiescent gas. Results for a large sample of sources show that, in contrast to class II methanol masers, which undergo Keplerian motions in protoplanetary disks, class I methanol masers retain their velocities in the local system of rest of the surrounding medium, and do not participate in the ejection of matter in bipolar outflows. They can be adequately described using a model in which matter ejected from active parts of the associated star-forming regions flows around isolated maser condensations. This compresses the maser clumps, enhancing the concentration of methanol and facilitating collisional pumping of the masers. 相似文献
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Thirty four-frequency line profiles of Class II methanol masers have been analyzed to investigate carefully the coincidences of various spectral features. Data at 6.7, 12.2, 107, and 156.6 GHz have been analyzed. Two clusters of Class II methanol maser lines at 6.7 and 12.2 GHz are observed in the spectra of many sources. These maser-line clusters are located on either side of the thermal methanol lines at 107 and 156.6 GHz. To avoid the effect of amplification in these thermal methanol lines, a similar analysis was performed for 80 sources having both maser emission at 6.7 GHz and thermal CS emission. The relative distributions of the methanol maser lines and the thermal CS line confirm on the basis of richer statistics that the maser lines are located in two clusters on either side of the thermal feature. It is proposed that the two maser-line clusters correspond to two edges of a Keplerian disk. The thermal methanol and CS emission is formed in dense molecular cores, whose centers are coincident with the disk centers. 相似文献
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We have mapped three star-forming regions (G265.14+1.45, G269.16?1.14, G291.27?0.71) in the CS(3–2) and C34S(2–1) lines using the 15 m SEST telescope (Chile), and analyzed the relative positions of methanol and H2O masers, IRAS sources, and emission maxima in the CS lines. In most cases, the maser positions are close to those of the IRAS sources. We compared the radial velocities of the maser sources and high-density CS cores, and estimated the CS column densities assuming LTE. The sizes, densities, and masses of the dense core are estimated; the masses obtained in the LTE approximation agree with the virial masses. 相似文献
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An analysis of the H2O maser emission associated with protoplanetary disks is presented. Triplet H2O spectra can be formed at certain stages in the evolution of Keplerian disks. The dependence of the mass of the central star in the Keplerian disk on the disk radius is derived. The calculations are based on the distribution of the water-vapor molecules (maser spots). In S140, the observed elongated maser spots (chains) with a smoothly varying line-of-sight velocity are interpreted as protoplanetary structures with a small intrinsic rotation. 相似文献
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Ashimbaeva N. T. Colom P. Lekht E. E. Pashchenko M. I. Rudnitskii G. M. Tolmachev A. M. 《Astronomy Reports》2019,63(12):1022-1034
Results of observations of the star-forming region S252A in the 1.35-cm H2O and 18-cm OH lines obtained using the 22-m Pushchino (Russia) and Nancay (France) radio telescopes are presented. A catalog of H2O maser spectra for 1995-2019 is presented. The variability of the integrated flux has two components: a cyclic component with a time interval between cycles ~30-35 yrs and a short-period component with a mean period of about 2.6 yrs. This may reflect non-stationary formation of a protostar. It is shown that the medium where the H2O maser emission and thermal OH emission are generated is strongly fragmented, and contains small-scale turbulent motions comparable to the thermal motions of the matter. The observed drift and jumps in the radial velocity of the H2O emission features could be a consequence of complex, non-uniform structure of the maser condensations.
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Results of polarization observations of gas-dust condensations obtained on the Nançay radio telescope in the 1665 and 1667 MHz OH lines in all four Stokes parameters are reported. Seven OH maser sources associated with methanol masers were selected for this study. The goal was to estimate the magnetic fields in methanol condensations from the Zeeman splitting of OH maser lines associated with the methanol masers. The Gaussian parameters of features in the OH spectra are presented, and their polarization parameters are estimated: the degree of circular polarization m C , flux density in linear polarization p, and degree of linear polarization m L . The magnetic field intensity B has been estimated from the Zeeman splitting of the OH lines and approximation of the Stokes parameter V from the derivative of Stokes parameter I. B varies from ≤0.5 to 1.4 mG for different sources. The association of OH masers with methanol emission has been analyzed; the magnetic fields of OH masers in interstellar condensations associated with Class I methanol masers can be determined more reliably than the fields in interstellar condensations with OH masers associated with Class II methanol emission, and have higher values. The sizes of the studied regions suggest they may be bound structures such as Bok globules, small IRDC clouds, or protoplanetary disks. 相似文献
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I. D. Litovchenko A. V. Alakoz I. E. Val’tts G. M. Larionov 《Astronomy Reports》2011,55(12):1086-1095
Observations of various types of objects in the northern sky were obtained at 44 GHz in the 70-61
A
+ methanol line on the 20-m Onsala radio telescope (Sweden), in order to search for Class I methanol maser emission in the
interstellar medium: regions of formation of high-mass stars, dust rings around HII regions, and protostellar candidates associated
with powerful molecular outflows and Galactic HII regions. Seven new Class Imethanolmasers have been discovered toward regions
of formation of highmass stars, and the existence of two previously observed masers confirmed. The following conclusions are
drawn: (1) neither the association of a bipolar outflow manifest in the wings of CO lines with a highmass protostellar object
(HMPO) nor the presence of thermal emission in lines of complex molecules are sufficient conditions for the detection of Class
I methanol emission; no association with HMPOs radiating at 44 GHz was found for EGOs (a new class of object tracing bipolar
outflows); (2) the existence of H2O masers and Class II methanol masers in the region of aHMPOenhances the probability of detecting Class I methanol emission
toward the HMPO; Class II methanol masers with stronger line fluxes are associated with Class I methanol masers. 相似文献
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We report the results of a study of fast variations of the H2O maser emission toward NGC 7538 IRS 1, which is associated with a star-forming region. The study is based on monitoring data
in the 1.35 cm line obtained in 1996–2003 on the 22-meter radio telescope of the Pushchino Radio Astronomy Observatory (Russia).
Periodic flux variations of four long-lived emission features with an average period of about 0.9 year have been detected.
The flux variations of these features are correlated, suggesting that the detected variability is a consequence of pulsation
of, e.g., stellar wind from the protostar in NGC 7538 IRS 1, with a period of about 0.9 year (0.87 ± 0.03 year). These pulsations
are superimposed on long-term variability of the integrated maser emission with a period of 13 years. 相似文献
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We present results of a survey of 14 star-forming regions from the Perseus spiral armin CS (2–1) and 13CO (1–0) lines with the Onsala Space Observatory 20 m telescope. Maps of 10 sources in both lines are obtained. For the remaining sources a map in just one line or a single-point spectrum is obtained. On the basis of newly obtained and published observational data we consider the relation between velocities of the “quasi-thermal” CS (2–1) line and 6.7 GHz methanol maser line in 24 high-mass star-forming regions in the Perseus arm. We show that, surprisingly, velocity ranges of 6.7 GHz methanol maser emission are predominantly red-shifted with respect to corresponding CS (2–1) line velocity ranges in the Perseus arm. We suggest that the predominance of the “red-shifted masers” in the Perseus arm could be related to the alignment of gas flows caused by the large-scalemotions in the Galaxy. Large-scale galactic shock related to the spiral structure is supposed to affect the local kinematics of the star-forming regions. Part of the Perseus arm, between galactic longitudes from 85° to 124° , does not contain blue-shifted masers at all. Radial velocities of the sources are the greatest in this particular part of the arm, so the velocity difference is clearly pronounced. 13CO (1–0) and CS (2–1) velocity maps of G183.35-0.58 show gas velocity difference between the center and the periphery of the molecular clump up to 1.2 km s?1. Similar situation is likely to occur in G85.40-0.00. This can correspond to the case when the large-scale shock wave entrains the outer parts of a molecular clump in motion while the dense central clump is less affected by the shock. 相似文献
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Themaser pumping schemes proposed for the various OH lines may not be as clear-cut as they once seemed. The main OH lines, at 1665 and 1667 MHz, are thought to be radiatively pumped, with the radiation typically coming from nearby ultracompact HII regions. Recently, a new class of main-line maser has been posited, collisionally pumped by shocks due to molecular outflows. The W3(OH)/W3(OH)-TW system is the archetype: traditional OH masers are excited by theW3(OH) ultracompact HII region, while collisionally pumped OH masers arise in the younger object W3(OH)-TW, which is driving an outflow. The 1720 MHz OH satellite line maser, typically found in SNR–cloud interaction regions, is thought to be collisionally pumped, as are class I methanol masers found in star formation regions. Thus it is plausible that these two masers arise in similar (shocked gas) circumstances. In this study we observe all four OH transitions in the direction of Extended Green Objects (EGOs) that trace shocked gas (possibly from outflows) in high-mass star formation regions. Previous studies have found a high incidence of class I methanol maser emission in these objects, suggesting that OH(1720) masers might also be abundant in this sample. Observations of 20 northern EGOs (δ > −17°) were carried out with the Jansky Very Large Array of all four ground state OH transitions, the HI line, and the 20 centimeter continuum. Positive detection of OH lines was obtained for 10 EGOs: OH lines at 1665 and 1667 MHz were detected toward 45% of the sample. The stellar OH line at 1612 MHz was detected toward 15% of the sample. The 1720 MHz emission line was detected in only one EGO source, G45.47+0.07, which is also presents the strongest main-line OH emission of our sample. We measure the projected separations between OH masers and GLIMPSE point sources associated with EGOs (median value 0.04 pc), betweenOH and class II methanol masers (median value 0.03 pc), and between OH and class I methanol masers (median value 0.14 pc), thus confirming previous findings that class I methanol masers are located further from exciting sources than areOH and class II methanol masers. Bearing in mind the theoretical incompatibility of class I and class II methanol maser pumping schemes, and the obtained separations between class I methanol masers and other masers in the EGOs, we conclude that class I methanol masers do not co-exist with GLIMPSE point sources, OH and class II methanol masers in one and the same core. Rather, we suggest that the class I masers arise in distinct but neighboring cores, about 1 pc distant, and in a different evolutionary state.
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The paper presents the results of monitoring the H2O maser in NGC 7538, which is associated with a star-formation region, in 1993–2003. The observations were carried out on the 22-m radio telescope of the Pushchino Radio Astronomy Observatory (Russia). The variability of the maser emission displays a cyclic character. Two cycles of the long-term variability of the total flux were detected over the entire monitoring period (1981–2003): 1981–1993 and 1994–2003. The period of the variability is about 13 years. An anticorrelation of the emission in lateral sections of the spectra is observed, as is characteristic of protoplanetary disks. A drift in the radial velocity of the central component is observed (VLSR=?60 km/s) with a drift rate of about 0.09 km/s per year. The water-vapor maser is most likely associated with a protoplanetary disk. 相似文献
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We present images of the star-forming regionG23.01–0.41 at 6.7GHz in the Class II methanol maser transition 51–60
A
+, produced from archival observations on the European VLBI Network. Our map of the source and its maser spots contains 24
maser components. The data for each spot—absolute coordinates, coordinates relative to the calibration feature, peak flux
and flux integrated over the spot, size, position angle, velocity along the line of sight, and line full width at half-maximum—are
collected in tabular form. The spatial region occupied by the maser spots is approximated by a 200×130 milliarcsec ellipse
in position angle PA = −0.40°, centered on the absolute coordinates α
0 = 18h34m40.282s, δ
0 = −09°00′38.27″ (J2000). If the source is a protoplanetary disk, then, for the distance estimate derived from trigonometric
parallax, its diameter is 1800 AU, and the mass of the central protostar is 23.5M
⊙. 相似文献
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W75N is a star-forming region containing ultracompact H II regions as well as OH, H2O, and methanol masers. The VLBA maps obtained show that the masers are located in a thin disk rotating around an O star, which is the exciting star for the ultracompact H II region VLA1. A separate group of maser spots is associated with the ultracompact H II region VLA2. The radial velocity of the maser spots varies across the disk from 3.7 to 10.9 km/s. The disk diameter is 4000 AU. The maser spots revolve in Keplerian orbits around the O9 star. 相似文献
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We present the results of a search for the emission in the main OH lines toward high-latitude IRAS sources using the Australia Telescope Compact Array (ATCA) in Narrabri. A sample of 239 sources from the IRAS catalog selected with the color criterion for ultracompact HII regions and with no restriction on flux was studied. No maser or thermal emission or absorption was detected in these sources. The reason for this could be the low sensitivity of the ATCA to faint high-latitude objects. However, we have mapped the regions of eight known masers in star-forming regions in the plane of the Galaxy. The results are given in the form of spectra and maps. 相似文献
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Strong flares of the H2O maser emission in sources associated with active star-forming regions are analyzed. The main characteristics of 13 flares
in nine sources selected using special criteria are presented. The observed phenomena are explained as flares in double emission
features. The approach of two emission features in the spectrum with increasing flux and their recession with decreasing flux
is explained using a model with two physically related clumps of material that are partially superposed in the line of sight.
Calculations have shown that, in this type of model, exponential amplification (unsaturated maser emission) in the overlapping
parts of the clumps can produce the observed line narrowing with increasing flux. In most cases, the maser spots are inhomogeneous.
During the evolution of some flares, the maser condensations may split into separate fragments. A less catastrophic evolutionary
path may be an initial stage of formation of chainlike structures, which are fairly widespread in envelopes around ultracompact
HII regions. 相似文献
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The methanol-line spectra in two maser condensations at velocities ～41 and ～45 km/s in the star-forming region W48 have been studied. The intensity of the 20-3?1 E (12.2 GHz) line is anticorrelated with that of the 51-60 A + (6.7 GHz) line: the intensity of the 51-60 A + (6.7 GHz) line is greater at ～41 km/s than at ～45 km/s, while the opposite is true of the 20-3?1 E (12 GHz) line. The remaining class II methanol lines in this source demonstrate the same behavior as the 20-3?1 E (12 GHz) line. This contradicts current concepts about the maser line intensities in various methanol transitions: according to model calculations, the intensities of all class II lines should vary in phase. This effect is confirmed for a large homogeneous sample of 67 sources. Possible explanations of the observed effect are proposed; one suggests the possible role of “transpumping” of the methanol-level populations in the maser condensations. The relationships between the variations of the 20-3?1 E (12 GHz) and 51-60 A + (6.7 GHz) line intensities, which are present for all 67 sources considered, may indicate that the condensations are at different distances from the pumping source. The presence of condensations at various distances from the pumping source in all 67 sources can be understood if they are ice planets revolving in different orbits around massive stars or protostars. 相似文献
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Eighteen regions (bipolar outflows and methanol masers) are mapped in the CS(2-1) line using the 20-m Onsala radio telescope. The coordinates of the CS emission peaks are refined. The sizes and masses of dense regions are estimated for 13 maps. Measurement of the angular sizes of regions of emission indicates that all the sources were resolved by the Onsala radio telescope. The lower limit for the linear dimensions of the CS condensations studied is 0.2–2.1 pc. The hydrogen densities and masses of the CS condensations are estimated to be n(H2)=(0.3–13.1)×104 cm?3 and (M ≈ 7–2800M ⊙). Methanol masers are associated with denser and more massive regions, whether or not the maser condensation is connected with a bipolar outflow. 相似文献
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Seventy-eight molecules have been detected as a result of a spectral survey of the star-forming region DR21(OH) at 84–115
GHz. The abundances of most molecules are typical of those in the dense cores of molecular clouds. The rotational temperatures
derived using the lines of most molecules fall in the range 9–56 K, which is also typical for dense cores. However, emission
from high-lying levels of methanol and sulfur dioxide was detected; since the rotational temperatures for methanol and sulfur
dioxide are 252 and 186 K, this indicates the presence of hot regions. Another fact indicating the existence of hot regions
is the detection of CH3OCHO, CH3CH2OH, and CH3OCH3, which have thus far been observed only in hot cores and shock-heated regions. An interesting result is the tentative detection
of the J = 2 − 1, v = 1 SiO line, with the upper level energy of 1775 K. This is probably a maser line, similar to but weaker than the well-known
SiO masers in the star-forming regions Orion-KL,W51(N), and Sgr B2(N). 相似文献
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We present the results of studies of the superfine structure of H2O maser sources in the Orion Nebula. Powerful, low-velocity, compact maser sources are distributed in eight active zones. Highly organized structures in the form of chains of compact components were revealed in two of these, in the molecular cloud OMC-1. The component sizes are ～0.1 AU and their brightness temperatures are T b =1012?1016 K. The structures correspond to tangential sections of concentric rings viewed edge-on. The ring emission is concentrated in the azimuthal plane, decreasing the probability of their discovery. The formation of protostars is accompanied by the development of accretion disks and bipolar flows, with associated H2O maser emission. The accretion disks are in the stage of fragmentation into protoplanetary rings. In a Keplerian approximation, the protostars have low masses, possibly evidence for instability of the systems. Supermaser emission of the rings is probably triggered by precession of the accretion disk. The molecular cloud’s radial velocity is V LSR=7.74 km/s and its optical depth is τ≈5. The emission from components with velocities within the maser window is additionally amplified. The components’ emission is linearly polarized via anisotropic pumping. 相似文献