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OH 1720-MHz lines as tracers of bipolar outflows in the vicinity of Class I methanol masers
Authors:I D Litovchenko  O S Bayandina  A V Alakoz  I E Val’tss  G M Larionov  D V Mukha  A S Nabatov  A A Konovalenko  V V Zakharenko  E V Alekseev  V S Nikolaenko  V F Kulishenko  S A Odintsov
Institution:1. Astro Space Center, Lebedev Physical Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Profsoyuznaya ul. 84/32, Moscow, 117997, Russia
2. Moscow State Pedagogical University, ul. Malaya Pirogovskaya, 1, str. 1, Moscow, 119991, Russia
3. Institute of Radio Astronomy, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Krasnoznamennaya ul. 4, Kharkov, 61002, Ukraine
4. National Space Facilities Control and Testing Center, Evpatoria, 97419, Crimea, Ukraine
Abstract:A sample of Class I methanol masers (MMI) has been surveyed at 1720 MHz to search for possible associations between MMI and 1720-MHz OH masers, which should be formed by the same collisional pumping mechanism. If the model for methanol masers is correct, the sample should contain a statistically significant number of 1720-MHz OH masers at the positions of MMI. The observations were conducted on the 70-meter radio telescope of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (NASU). The results show that ??50% of 72 MMI are associated with OH emission at 1720 MHz. In many sources, strong absorption lines are also observed. In most cases, the OH (1720) lines are narrow (linewidths of <2 km/s) suggesting they may be maser lines. The OH column densities obtained from Gaussian fitting of these narrow OH lines are, on average, 1.5 × 1017 cm?2. TheH2 density in the emitting medium reaches 107 cm?3 if the region of the OH (1720) emission has been subject to interaction with a bipolar-outflow front. This is sufficient to excite MMI, and the presence of narrow, possibly masing OH (1720) lines at the MMI velocities indicates the likely presence of shocks from bipolar outflows in the vicinity of the maser condensations, supporting models in which these molecules are collisionally pumped.
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