Methanol masers in the Herschel era Putting them in the star formation context

Autor:	Michele Pestalozzi
Rok vydání:	2012
Předmět:	Physics Space and Planetary Science law Star formation Astrophysics::Solar and Stellar Astrophysics Astronomy Astronomy and Astrophysics Context (language use) Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics Maser Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics Astrobiology law.invention
Zdroj:	Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union. 8:492-496
ISSN:	1743-9221 1743-9213
DOI:	10.1017/s1743921312007582
Popis:	Methanol masers are known to be among the most reliable tracers of high-mass stars in early stages of evolution. A number of searches across the Galaxy has yielded to date, a complete census of those masers in two thirds of the Milky Way, providing a catalogue of some 800 sources to be studied in depth. In particular, it is important to characterise the physical properties of the objects hosting methanol masers, and this is possible today using data from the Herschel Space Observatory (HSO). The exceptional spatial resolution of HSO and its wavelength coverage are perfectly tuned to put the methanol maser phase into its star formation context. This paper presents results on the characterisation of methanol maser hosts using Herschel data from the Hi-GAL project, an Open Time Key Project to survey the inner Galactic plane at 5 wavelengths between 70 and 500 μm.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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