KVN Single-dish Water and Methanol Maser Line Surveys of Galactic YSOs

• Published in: Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union Vol. 8; no. S287; pp. 488 - 491
• Main Authors: Kim, Kee-Tae, Byun, Do-Young, Bae, Jae-Han, Kim, Won-Ju, Kang, Hyun-Woo, Oh, Chung Sik, Youn, So-Young
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge, UK Cambridge University Press 01.01.2012
• Subjects: Astronomy; Astrophysics; Contributed Papers; Luminosity; Methanol; Star & galaxy formation; methanol; maser; star formation; water; young stellar object
• ISSN: 1743-9213; 1743-9221
• DOI: 10.1017/S1743921312007570

We have carried out simultaneous 22 GHz H2O and 44 GHz Class I CH3OH maser line surveys of more than 1500 intermediate- and high-mass YSOs in the Galaxy using newly-constructed KVN 21-m telescopes. As the central (proto)stars evolve, the detection rates of the two masers rapidly decrease for intermediate-mass YSOs while the rates increase for high-mass YSOs. These results suggest that the occurrence of the two masers is closely related both to the evolutionary stage of the central objects and to the circumstellar environments. CH3OH masers always have very similar velocities (<10 km s−1) to the natal dense cores, whereas H2O masers often have significantly different velocities. The isotropic luminosities of both masers are well correlated with the bolometric luminosities of the central (proto)stars.