Pilot observations for malt-45: a Galactic plane survey at 7 mm

C. H. Jordan*, A. J. Walsh, V. Lowe, N. Lo, C. R. Purcell, M. A. Voronkov, S. N. Longmore

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Abstract

We introduce the Millimetre Astronomer's Legacy Team - 45 GHz (MALT-45) Galactic plane survey and describe pilot survey results with the Australia Telescope Compact Array (ATCA). The pilot survey was conducted to test the instrumentation and observational technique of MALT-45, before commencing the full survey. We mapped two half-square degree regions within the southern Galactic plane around the G333 giant molecular cloud, using fast mosaic mapping. Using the new Compact Array Broad-band Backend on the ATCA, we were able to observe two 2048MHzspectral windows, centred on frequencies 43.2 and 48.2 GHz. Although only a coarse spectral resolution of around 7 km s-1 was available to us, we detect widespread, extended emission in the CS (1-0) ground state transition.We also detect eight Class I CH3OH masers at 44 GHz and three SiO masers in vibrationally excited (1-0) transitions. We also detect the H53α radio recombination line, non-vibrationally excited SiO (1-0) and emission in the CH3OH 11-00 A+ line

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)469-481
Number of pages13
JournalMonthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Volume429
Issue number1
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2013
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • Galaxy: structure
  • Ism: molecules
  • Masers
  • Radio lines: Ism
  • Stars: formation
  • Surveys

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