Millimetre Astronomy with the Australia Telescopemillimetre with the澳大利亚天文望远镜.pptVIP

*ASKAP Software: Central Processor *ASKAP Software: Central Processor Class I methanol masers and evolutionary stage of star-formation Max Voronkov Software Scientist – ASKAP In collaboration with: Caswell J.L., Ellingsen S.P., Britton T.R., Green J.A., Sobolev A.M. 10 December 2009 Introduction: two classes of methanol masers Class I methanol (CH3OH) masers Collisional excitation (e.g. by shocks) Regions of star formation (possibly low-mass ones as well) Usually offset from protostars (up to a parsec) Many maser spots scattered over tens of arcsec Widespread masers: 36, 44, 84, 95 GHz Rare/weak: 9.9, series at 25, 104.3 GHz Class II methanol (CH3OH) masers Regions of high mass star formation only Excited by infrared, located at the nearest vicinity of protostars Usually just one maser spot at the arcsec scale Widespread masers: 6.7, 12 GHz Rare/weak: 19.9, 23, 85/86, 37/38, 107, 108 GHz Class I methanol masers in outflows Evolutionary stages of star-formation Different maser species may be good tracers of evolution! OH masers trace late stage (e.g Forster Caswell 1989) Methanol masers at 6.7 GHz trace earlier stages (little overlap with HII regions) Class I methanol masers ? Image credit: Cormac Purcell Evolution of HMSF as traced by masers Infrared data: sources with class I masers are more red (more embedded and therefore younger) Class I masers are associated with outflows: trace earlier stages Diagram suggested by Ellingsen et al. (2007) GLIMPSE colours for 6.7 GHz masers sources with and without class I maser (Ellingsen 2006) Search for 9.9 GHz methanol masers This is one of the rare class I masers Only two sources were known prior to this work Two new detections out of 48 targets observed Detection limits as low as 0.1 Jy Needs higher temperatures and densities to form ATCA observations (pre-CABB) 6A and 6C arrays Continuum at 8.6 GHz as a by-product Spectral resolution 0.12 km/s Obtained absolute positions for ma