Issue |
A&A
Volume 410, Number 2, November I 2003
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Page(s) | 597 - 610 | |
Section | Interstellar and circumstellar matter | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20031191 | |
Published online | 17 November 2003 |
Observations of warm dust near methanol masers*
1
Max Planck Institut für Radioastronomie, auf dem Hügel 69, 53121 Bonn, Germany
2
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, 60 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA, 02138, USA
3
Department of Electronics, University of Kent, Canterbury, Kent CT2 7NT, UK
4
Department of Astrophysics and Optics, School of Physics, University of New South Wales, NSW, 2052, Australia
Corresponding author: A. J. Walsh, awalsh@cfa.harvard.edu
Received:
16
July
2001
Accepted:
29
July
2003
Continuum emission at 450 and 850 μm from warm dust has been mapped in the fields of 71 methanol masers. Within these fields lie 30 centimetre-wave radio continuum sources and an additional 13 methanol maser sites. Sub-mm emission is detected at all but one of the maser sites, confirming the association of methanol maser emission with deeply embedded objects. Measured bolometric luminosities confirm that methanol maser emission is an excellent signpost of high-mass star formation. Examples of nearby isolated maserless dust cores may be harbouring massive protostars at an earlier evolutionary stage.
Key words: stars: formation / ISM: dust, extinction / submillimeter / infrared: ISM
© ESO, 2003
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