A Survey of the Galactic Plane for 6.7-GHz Methanol Masers I: l = 325.0 - 335.0 ; b = -0.53 - 0.53

Abstract

We report the results of the first complete survey of an area of the Galactic Plane for maser emission from the 6.7-GHz transition of methanol. The survey covers a 10.6-square-degree region of the Galactic Plane in the longitude range 325-335 degrees and latitude range -0.53-0.53 degrees. The survey is sensitive to masers with a peak flux density greater than approximately 2.6 Jy. The weakest maser detected has a peak flux density of 2.3 Jy and the strongest a peak flux density of 425 Jy. We detected a total of 50 distinct masers, 26 of which are new detections. We show that many 6.7-GHz methanol masers are not associated with IRAS sources, and that some are associated with sources that have colours differing from those of a typical ultra-compact HII region (UCHII). We estimate that the number of UCHII regions in the Galaxy is significantly more than suggested by IRAS-based estimates, possibly by more than a factor of two.

19 pages including 4 figures, using LaTeX formatted with mn.sty, accepted for publication in MNRAS

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