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J/MNRAS/276/57      IRAS Galactic star-forming regions. II. (Codella+ 1995)
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IRAS-selected Galactic star-forming regions. - II. Water maser detections in
the extended sample
      Codella C., Palumbo G.G.C., Pareschi G., Scappini F., 
      Caselli P., Attolini M.R.
     <Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc. 276, 57 (1995)>
     =1995MNRAS.276...57C      (SIMBAD/NED BibCode)
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ADC_Keywords: Masers ; Infrared sources ; Spectroscopy ; Radio lines
Keywords: masers - stars: formation - ISM: molecules -
          infrared: ISM: continuum - radio lines: ISM

Abstract:
    The results of the analysis of the occurrence of 22.2-GHz H_2_O maser
    emission in a sample of 1409 IRAS sources north of declination -30deg
    associated with star-forming regions are presented. Our sample
    contains all the IRAS sources that satisfy Emerson criteria for
    selecting molecular cores associated with the earliest evolutionary
    stages of the star-forming process. In a previous paper (Paper I,
    1994MNRAS.266..123P), we have reported the results of the
    observations of about one third of the sample. In the present paper
    the observations of the remaining IRAS sources are presented: 18 of
    them are newly detected maser sources. The results show that 20 per
    cent of all IRAS sources that satisfy the Wood & Churchwell criteria
    have H2O water masers. This is in agreement with the assumption that
    these criteria select objects that are connected with the early phases
    of the evolution of high-mass star-forming regions. Moreover, about
    one third of the whole sample selected according to Emerson criteria
    contains IRAS sources that are not associated with massive
    star-forming processes, but probably with molecular cores in low-mass
    star-forming regions.

File Summary:
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  FileName      Lrecl  Records   Explanations
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ReadMe             80        .   This file
table1.dat         39      384   Subsample A
table2.dat         37      160   Subsample B
table3.dat         37      443   Subsample C
table5.dat         86       18   Derived parameters of the new maser sources
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See also:
   II/125        : IRAS catalogue of Point Sources, Version 2.0 (IPAC 1986)
   J/A+AS/98/589 : IRAS Sources behind the Solar circle  (Wouterloot+ 1993)

Byte-by-byte Description of file: table1.dat, table2.dat, table3.dat
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   Bytes Format Units   Label     Explanations
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   1- 10  A10   ---     IRAS      IRAS name
      11  A1    ---     m_IRAS    Multilpicity index on IRAS name
  13- 18  F6.2  deg     GLON      Galactic longitude
  20- 25  F6.2  deg     GLAT      Galactic latitude
      27  A1    ---   l_Fpeak     Limit flag on Fpeak
  28- 32  F5.1  Jy      Fpeak     ? Peak flux density
  33- 34  A2    ---   n_Fpeak     [ND ] Note on Fpeak (1)
  36- 37  I2    ---   r_Fpeak     Fpeak references (2)
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Note (1):  D: Detected as maser by others
          ND: Not detected as maser by others
Note (2): References:
              1  Present Work
              2  Palla et al., 1991A&A...246..249P
              3  Felli et al., 1992A&A...255..293F
              4  Palla, 1992 (unspecified reference, occurs for IRAS 18134-1652)
              5  Comoretto et al., 1990A&AS...84..179C
              6  Arcetri Data-base
              7  Henning et al., 1992A&AS...93..525H
              9  Wouterloot & Walmsley, 1986A&A...168..237W
             14  Genzel & Downes, 1977A&A....61..117G
             15  Scalise et al., 1989A&A...221..105S
             17  Gyulbudaghian et. al., 1990RMxAA..20...51G
             19  Wouterloot. et al., 1993A&AS...98..589W, Cat. <J/A+AS/98/589>
             20  Palla et al., 1993A&A...280..599P
             21  Caswell et al  1983AuJPh..36..443C
             22  Churchwell et al., 1990A&ARv...2...79C
             23  Knapp & Morris, 1976ApJ...206..713K
             24  Jaffe et al., 1981ApJ...250..621J
             25  Genzel & Downes, 1979A&A....72..234G
             26  Matthews et. al., 1985A&A...149..227M
             27  Braz et al., 1989A&AS...77..465B
             28  Codella et al., 1994A&A...291..261C
             29  Wouterloot et al., 1986A&A...168..237W
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Byte-by-byte Description of file: table5
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   Bytes Format   Units     Label     Explanations
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   1- 10  A10     ---       IRAS      IRAS name
      12  A1      ---       Sample    [ABC] Subsample
      14  A1      ---     l_F12       Limit flag on F12
  15- 22  E8.2    Jy        F12       Flux density at 12{mu}m
      24  A1      ---     l_F25       Limit flag on F25
  25- 32  E8.2    Jy        F25       Flux density at 25{mu}m
      34  A1      ---     l_F60       Limit flag on F60
  35- 42  E8.2    Jy        F60       Flux density at 60{mu}m
      44  A1      ---     l_F100      Limit flag on F100
  45- 52  E8.2    Jy        F100      Flux density at 100{mu}m
  54- 61  A8   "DD/MM/YY"   Date      Observing date
  63- 67  F5.1    Jy        Fpeak     Flux of the strongest component
  69- 72  F4.1    Jy        rms       Noise of the spectrum
  74- 79  F6.1    km/s      Vpeak     Velocity of the strongest component
  81- 86  F6.1    Jy.km/s   FH2O      Integrated flux computed over the whole
                                       emission interval
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