AAS 207th Meeting, 8-12 January 2006
Session 165 Young Stellar Clusters and Friends
Oral, Wednesday, 2:00-3:30pm, January 11, 2006, Balcony B

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[165.02] The Arecibo Methanol Maser Galactic Plane Survey

J. D. Pandian (Cornell University), P. F. Goldsmith (Jet Propulsion Laboratory), A. A. Deshpande (Raman Research Institute)

The Arecibo Methanol Maser Galactic Plane Survey (AMGPS) is a blind survey for 6.7 GHz methanol masers in the Galactic plane. 6.7 GHz methanol masers are thought to trace the very early stages of high-mass star formation, and are excellent tools for probing Galactic structure and understanding the formation process of massive stars. Our survey targets the Galactic plane between Galactic longitudes 35 < l < 55 degrees, and latitudes \midb\mid < 0.4 degrees, and is the most sensitive methanol maser blind survey carried out to date. The 3\sigma sensitivity of the survey is ~ 0.25 Jy, although fainter sources have been detected using 3D matched filtering techniques. The entire survey is expected to be completed by the end of December 2005. As of October 2005, a 7.7 square degree region has been surveyed, out of which we have detections of 47 methanol masers, 29 of which are new sources. I will present results from the survey, including the distribution of masers in the Galaxy, their counterparts at other wavelengths, and statistics on line-widths of individual maser features.


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