A search for 6.7 GHz methanol masers in M33

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作者：
Goldsmith, Paul F. [1 ]
Pandian, Jagadheep D. [2 ,3 ]
Deshpande, Avinash A. [4 ]
机构：
[1] CALTECH, Jet Prop Lab, Pasadena, CA 91109 USA
[2] Max Planck Inst Radioastron, D-53121 Bonn, Germany
[3] Cornell Univ, Dept Astron, Ithaca, NY USA
[4] Raman Res Inst, Bangalore 560080, Karnataka, India
来源：
ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL | 2008年 / 680卷 / 02期
关键词：
galaxies : individual (M33); ISM : individual (methanol); ISM : molecules; masers;
D O I：
10.1086/524651
中图分类号：
P1 [天文学];
学科分类号：
0704 ;
摘要：
We report the negative results from a search for 6.7 GHz methanol masers in the nearby spiral galaxy M33. We observed 14 GMCs in the central 4 kpc of the Galaxy, and found 3 sigma upper limits to the flux density of similar to 4 mJy at a velocity resolution of 0.35 km s(-1). By velocity shifting and combining the spectra from the positions observed, we obtain an effective 3 sigma upper limit on the average emission of similar to 1 mJy in a 0.25 km s(-1) channel. These limits lie significantly below what we would expect based on our estimates of the methanol maser luminosity function in the Milky Way. One possible explanation for the absence of detectable methanol masers appears to be the metallicity of M33, which is somewhat less than that of the Milky Way.
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页码：1132 / 1136
页数：5
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