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Table A.1

Catalog of ammonia transitions that have been identified as masers in the ISM.

Number Transition v Elow /k Eup/k Discovery source & Reference
(J, K) (MHz) (K) (K)
1 (1,1) 23694.49550 22.12769 23.26484 DR21, a
2 (2,2) 23722.63330 63.30956 64.44806 Sgr B2(M), b
3 (3,3) 23870.12920 122.39346 123.53904 W33, c
4 (5,5) 24532.98870 294.19337 295.37076 G9.26+0.19, d
5 (5,4) 22653.02200 342.22451 343.31167 W51-IRS2, e
6 (5,3) 21285.27500 379.43682 380.45835 W51-IRS2, f
7 (6,6) 25056.02500 406.85658 408.05908 NGC6334, g
8 (6,5) 22732.42900 465.55043 466.64141 W3(OH), h
9 (6,4) 20994.61700 513.33957 514.34714 Sgr B2(N), i
10 (6,3) 19757.53800 550.36513 551.31333 NGC7538, j
11 (6,2) 18884.69500 576.73689 577.64321 W51-IRS2, f
12 (6,1) 18391.56200 592.52954 593.41219 Sgr B2(N), i
13 (7,7) 25715.18200 537.31664 538.55077 W51-IRS2, f
14 (7,6) 22924.94000 606.67824 607.77846 W51-IRS2, f
15 (7,5) 20804.83000 665.02736 666.02583 W51-IRS2, e
16 (7,4) 19218.46500 712.53838 713.46072 W51-IRS2, f
17 (7,3) 18017.33700 749.35187 750.21656 Sgr B2(N), i
18 (8,6) 20719.22100 834.46640 835.46076 NGC6334, k
19 (8,5) 18808.50700 892.42835 893.33101 W51-IRS2, f
20 (8,4) 17378.11000 939.62715 940.46116 Sgr B2(N), i
21 (8,3) 16455.09900 976.19662 976.98634 Sgr B2(N), i
22 (9,9) 27477.94300 851.45423 852.77295 W51-IRS2, f
23 (9,8) 23657.47100 942.18255 943.31792 W51-IRS2, e
24 (9,7) 20735.45200 1021.61682 1022.61196 W51-IRS2, f
25 (9,6) 18499.39000 1089.99977 1090.88760 W51, NGC7538, W49, DR21(OH), j
26 (9,5) 16798.13400 1147.53483 1148.34101 Sgr B2(N), i
27 (9,4) 15523.90000 1194.38934 1195.13437 Sgr B2(N), i
28 (9,3) 14376.81700 1230.70171 1231.39168 Sgr B2(N), i
29 (10,9) 24205.28700 1136.46581 1137.62748 W51-IRS2, f
30 (10,8) 20852.52700 1226.43274 1227.43349 W51-IRS2, e
31 (10,7) 18285.43400 1305.21064 1306.08820 W51-IRS2, f
32 (10,6) 16319.32400 1373.03592 1373.81912 NGC7538, l
33 (11,9) 21070.73900 1448.86263 1449.87386 NGC6334, k
34 (12,12) 31424.94300 1454.90272 1456.41088 W51-IRS2, f
35 15NH3 (3,3) 22789.42170 124.64182 125.73554 NGC7538, m
36 15NH3 (4,3) 21637.89450 238.70035 239.73880 NGC7538, n
37 15NH3 (4,4) 23046.01580 202.51921 203.62523 NGC7538, n

Notes. The parameters of ammonia lines are taken from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) molecular line catalog (Pickett et al. 1998, https://spec.jpl.nasa.gov/) and the Cologne Database for Molecular Spectroscopy (CDMS, Müller et al. 2005; Endres et al. 2016). For the last column, see a Gaume et al. (1996), b Mills et al. (2018), c Wilson et al. (1982), d Cesaroni et al. (1992), e Mauersberger et al. (1987), f Henkel et al. (2013), g Beuther et al. (2007), h Mauersberger et al. (1988), i Mei et al. (2020), j Madden et al. (1986), k Walsh et al. (2007), 1 Hoffman (2012), m Mauersberger et al. (1986), n Schilke et al. (1991).

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