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Comparison of velocities and line widths of ammonia maser lines to the intrinsic line widths of ammonia (J, K) = (1,1) thermal emission. The number of data points is substantially larger than the number of newly detected sources due to the occasional presence of more than one maser line in a given source and more than one velocity component in a specific maser line. δV = VLSR(maser) − VLSR(NH3(1,1)) is the deviation from velocities of the NH3 maser lines to those of NH3 (1,1) thermal emission. δWidth = ∆V1/2 (NH3 (1,1))-∆V1/2(maser) refers to the difference between the line widths of ammonia maser lines and the intrinsic line widths of an individual NH3 hyperfine structure component. The dashed green lines indicate positions with zero deviation. The metastable NH3 transitions are marked in blue. Among the non-metastable NH3 lines, ortho-NH3 is presented in black and para-NH3 is given in red.
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