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Water Masers Toward Star-Forming Regions in the Bolocam Galactic Plane Survey

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 July 2012

Miranda K. Dunham
Miranda K. Dunham
Affiliation:
Department of Astronomy, Yale University, P. O. Box 208101, New Haven, CT, USA email: miranda.dunham@yale.edu
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Abstract

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We present preliminary results of a search for 22 GHz water masers toward 1400 star-forming regions seen in the Bolocam Galactic Plane Survey (BGPS) using the Green Bank Telescope (GBT). The BGPS is a blind survey of the Northern Galactic plane in 1.1 mm thermal dust emission that has cataloged star-forming regions at all evolutionary stages. Further information is required to determine the stage of each BGPS source. Since water masers are produced by outflows from low and high-mass star forming regions, their presence is a key component of determining whether the BGPS sources are forming stars and which evolutionary stage they are in. We present preliminary detection statistics, basic properties of the water masers, and correlations with physical properties determined from the 1.1 mm emission and ammonia observations obtained concurrently with the water masers on the GBT.

Keywords

ISM: moleculesmasersradio lines: ISMstars: formation, surveys
Type
Contributed Papers
Information
Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union , Volume 8 , Symposium S287: Cosmic Masers - from OH to H0 , January 2012 , pp. 286 - 287
Copyright
Copyright © International Astronomical Union 2012

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