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20092022
most citedThe Bar and Spiral Structure Legacy (BeSSeL) Survey: Mapping the Milky Way with VLBI Astrometry

174 citations · 408 across the 13 of their papers we have counts for

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13 papers

astro-ph.GA2022★ 2 cited

Water Maser Survey towards off-plane O-rich AGBs around the orbital plane of the Sagittarius Stellar Stream

Yuanwei Wu, Bo Zhang, Jingjing Li +1

A 22 GHz water maser survey was conducted towards 178 O-rich AGB stars with the aim of identifying maser emission associated with the Sagittarius stellar stream. In this survey, ma…

gr-qc2021

Light Deflection under the Gravitational Field of Jupiter -- Testing General Relativity

Yingjie Li, Ye Xu, JingJing Li +6

We measured the relative positions between two pairs of compact extragalactic sources (CESs), J1925-2219 \& J1923-2104 (C1--C2) and J1925-2219 \& J1928-2035 (C1--C3) on 2020 Octobe…

astro-ph.GA2019★ 30 cited

Assessing the Performance of Molecular Gas Clump Identification Algorithms

Chong Li, Hong-chi Wang, Yuan-wei Wu +2

The detection of clumps(cores) in molecular clouds is an important issue in sub-millimetre astronomy. However, the completeness of the identification and the accuracy of the return…

astro-ph.GA2019★ 26 cited

Parallaxes for star forming regions in the inner Perseus spiral arm

Bo Zhang, Mark J. Reid, Lian Zhang +8

We report trigonometric parallax and proper motion measurements of 6.7-GHz CH3OH and 22-GHz H2O masers in eight high-mass star-forming regions (HMSFRs) based on VLBA observations a…

astro-ph.GA2018★ 65 cited

The spiral structure of the Milky Way

Ye Xu, Ligang Hou, Yuanwei Wu

The morphology and kinematics of the spiral structure of the Milky Way is a long-standing problem in astrophysics. In this review we firstly summarize various methods with differen…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 5 cited

SiO Maser Survey towards off-plane O-rich AGBs around the orbital plane of the Sagittarius Stellar Stream

Yuanwei Wu, Noriyuki Matsunaga, Ross A. Burns +1

We conducted an SiO maser survey towards 221 O-rich AGB stars with the aim of identifying maser emission associated with the Sagittarius stellar stream. In this survey, maser emiss…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 80 cited

On the Relationship of UC H II Regions and Class II Methanol Masers: I. Source Catalogs

Bo Hu, Karl M. Menten, Yuanwei Wu +5

We conducted VLA C-configuration observations to measure positions and luminosities of Galactic Class II 6.7 GHz methanol masers and their associated ultra-compact H II regions. Th…

astro-ph.IM2015

The East-Asian VLBI Network

Kiyoaki Wajima, Yoshiaki Hagiwara, Tao An +14

The East-Asian VLBI Network (EAVN) is the international VLBI facility in East Asia and is conducted in collaboration with China, Japan, and Korea. The EAVN consists of VLBI arrays…

astro-ph.GA2014★ 2 cited

CO observations of a sample towards nearby galaxies

Fa-Cheng Li, Yuan-Wei Wu, Ye Xu

We have simultaneously observed CO, CO, and CO (J=10) rotational transitions in the centers of a sample of 58 nearby spiral galaxies using the 13.7-m millim…

astro-ph.GA2013★ 13 cited

Herschel/HIFI observations of a new interstellar water maser: the 5(32)-4(41) transition at 620.701 GHz

David A. Neufeld, Yuanwei Wu, Alex Kraus +4

Using the Herschel Space Observatory's Heterodyne Instrument for the Far-Infrared (HIFI), we have performed mapping observations of the 620.701 GHz 5(32)-4(41) transition of ortho-…

astro-ph.GA2011★ 174 cited

The Bar and Spiral Structure Legacy (BeSSeL) Survey: Mapping the Milky Way with VLBI Astrometry

Andreas Brunthaler, Mark J. Reid, Karl M. Menten +14

Astrometric Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI) observations of maser sources in the Milky Way are used to map the spiral structure of our Galaxy and to determine fundamental…

astro-ph.GA2010★ 7 cited

Multiwavelength study of low-luminosity 6.7-GHz methanol masers

Y. W. Wu, Y. Xu, J. Yang

We present results of 13CO(1-0), C18O(1-0), and HCO+(1-0) map observations and N2H+2 (1-0) single point observations directed towards a sample of nine low-luminosity 6.7-GHz masers…

astro-ph.SR2009★ 4 cited

A multiwavelength study of massive star-forming region IRAS 22506+5944

Yuan-Wei Wu, Ye Xu, Ji Yang +1

We present a multi-line study of the massive star-forming region IRAS 22506+5944. A new 6.7 GHz methanol maser was detected. 12CO, 13CO, C18O and HCO+ J = 1-0 transition observatio…