Abstract
We present results from the third portion of the Methanol Multibeam Galactic plane survey of masers at 6668 MHz. It covers the longitude range 330°-345°, yielding 198 masers, of which more than 40per cent are new discoveries. The maser population in this longitude range is the densest anywhere in the Galaxy, with many sources delineating a large portion of the Norma spiral arm close to its tangent point, and a cluster defining the southern tangent point of the 3-kpc ring. Two sources lie outside the solar circle, on the far side of the Galaxy, more than 15kpc away.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 1964-1995 |
| Number of pages | 32 |
| Journal | Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (MNRAS) |
| Volume | 417 |
| Issue number | 3 |
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| Publication status | Published - 1 Nov 2011 |
Keywords
- galaxy: structure
- ISM: molecules
- masers
- stars: formation
- surveys