SiO Maser Survey in the Galactic Center Region with a Multi-Beam Receiver

Atsushi Miyazaki(1,2), Shuji Deguchi(1), Masato Tsuboi(2), Takashi Kasuga(3), and Shuro Takano(1),


(1) Nobeyama Radio Observatory, Minamimaki, Minamisaku, Nagano 384-1305
(2) Institute of Astrophysics and Planetary Science, Ibaraki University, 2-1-1 Bunkyou, Mito, Ibaraki 310-8512
(3) Department of System and Control Engineering, Hosei University, 3-7-2 Kajino-chou, Koganei, Tokyo 184-8584

Paper: PASJ, Vol.53, 501-507 (2001)

Weblink: http://www.nro.nao.ac.jp/~amiya/papers/gcsiom_pasj53.pdf


Abstract:

We have made a wide-field survey of SiO masers in the 7' * 13' area around the Galactic center with the Nobeyama 45-m radio telescope using a 2 * 3 multi-beam SIS mixer receiver at 43 GHz. We detected 9 SiO maser sources (6 of them are new); newly detected 6 sources have been identified with Miras or OH 1612 MHz maser sources. The source surface number density, 360 per square degree, found in this survey is slightly smaller than the number density of OH 1612 MHz sources in the same area. A least-squares analysis of the radial velocities of the detected sources has revealed a rapid rotation of the stars around the Galactic center. This implies that most of the objects detected in this survey belong to the nuclear disk near the Galactic center.


Preprints available from the authors at amiya@nro.nao.ac.jp , or the raw TeX (no figures) if you click here.

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