A statistical analysis of methanol maser groups |
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| Authors: | I E Val’tts S Yu Lyubchenko |
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| Institution: | (1) Astro Space Center, Lebedev Physical Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Profsoyuznaya ul. 84/32, Moscow, 117997, Russia |
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| Abstract: | An analysis of the flux densities of the 51-60 A + (6.7 GHz) and 20-3?1 E (12.2 GHz) class II methanol maser lines in a large and homogeneous sample of maser sources has been carried out. For convenience, the maser lines were divided into three groups: group I contains spectral features for the lines most prominent in the 51-60 A + (6.7 GHz) transition, group II contains spectral features for the lines strongest in the 20-3?1 E (12.2 GHz) transition, group III contains spectral features for which the velocities of the emission maxima of the two lines coincide. The same dependence was found for group II and group III: log S 6.7=(0.79±0.05)×log S 12.2+(0.79±0.05). The spectral features in group I do not obey this relation, and deviations from a linear dependence are considerably greater. It is suggested that methanol class II masers be divided into a subclass IIa, which has special conditions favoring 6.7 GHz masers, and a subclass IIb, which is comprised of the 12.2 GHz masers and those 6.7 GHz masers that necessarily accompany them under the same conditions. |
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