New periodic 6.7 GHz class II methanol maser associated with G358.460-0.391

dc.contributor.authorMaswanganye, J.P.
dc.contributor.authorGaylard, M.J.
dc.contributor.authorGoedhart, S.
dc.contributor.authorVan der Walt, D.J.
dc.contributor.authorBooth, Roy S.
dc.date.accessioned2015-06-23T12:30:47Z
dc.date.available2015-06-23T12:30:47Z
dc.date.issued2015-01-21
dc.description.abstractEight new class II methanol masers selected from the 6.7 GHz Methanol Multibeam survey catalogues I and II were monitored at 6.7 GHz with the 26m Hartebeesthoek Radio Astronomy Observatory (HartRAO) radio telescope for three years and seven months, from February 2011 to September 2014. The sources were also observed at 12.2 GHz and two were sufficiently bright to permit monitoring. One of the eight sources, namely G358.460-0.391, was found to show periodic variations at 6.7 GHz. The period was determined and tested for significance using the Lomb-Scargle, epoch-folding and Jurkevich methods, and by fitting a simple analytic function. The best estimate for the period of the 6.7 GHz class II methanol maser line associated with G358.460-0.391 is 220.0 ± 0.2 day.en_ZA
dc.description.librarianam2015en_ZA
dc.description.sponsorshipJabulani Maswanganye would like to express his gratitude for the bursaries from the National Astrophysics Space Science Programme, Hartebeesthoek Radio Astronomy Observatory, the North-West University doctoral scholarships and the South African SKA Project via the NRF.en_ZA
dc.description.urihttp://mnras.oxfordjournals.orgen_ZA
dc.identifier.citationMaswanganye, JP, Gaylard, MJ, Goehart, S, Van der Walt, DJ & Booth, RS 2014, 'New periodic 6.7 GHz class II methanol maser associated with G358.460-0.391', Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, vol. 446, no. 3, pp. 2730-2737.en_ZA
dc.identifier.issn0035-8711 (print)
dc.identifier.issn1365-2966 (online)
dc.identifier.other10.1093/mnras/stu2306
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2263/45688
dc.language.isoenen_ZA
dc.publisherOxford University Pressen_ZA
dc.rights© 2014 The Authors. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Royal Astronomical Society. This work is distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License.en_ZA
dc.subjectMasers HII regions ISMen_ZA
dc.subjectClouds Radio linesen_ZA
dc.subjectISM starsen_ZA
dc.subjectFormationen_ZA
dc.titleNew periodic 6.7 GHz class II methanol maser associated with G358.460-0.391en_ZA
dc.typeArticleen_ZA

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