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甲醇脉泽的精确定位

Precise Positions of Methanol Masers

J. L. Caswell

摘要:

澳大利亚望远镜紧凑阵列(ATCA)已被用来确定位置的许多南方甲醇脉泽网站,精度优于1角秒。这里展示的结果是350多个不同地点的目录,其中一些是新发现的,还有许多其他地点的位置精度比现有发布的值高出10倍。偶尔会发现2或3个站点的集群可以解释先前列出的单个源。这反过来又表明,每个单独站点的速度范围有时小于最初列表(混合)源的速度范围。只有少数的例子,然后保持速度范围超过16公里/秒,在一个单一的紧凑(小于2角秒)的网站。精确的甲醇位置现在允许与OH脉泽的明显重合被自信地接受或拒绝;这导致了重要的结论,即在1665 MHz的OH脉泽位于大质量恒星形成区的地方,在超过80%的OH位置有一个精确重合的甲醇脉泽。当下一代远红外测量产生精确的位置时,这里实现的甲醇精度也将允许与可能的相关红外源进行清晰的比较。

英文摘要:

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 16 km/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.

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