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Mainline and water maser observations of OH/IR stars in the Arecibo sky

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 May 2016

B. M. Lewis*
Affiliation:
Arecibo Observatory, Puerto Rico

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A complete sample of color selected IRAS sources with S(25) ≥ 2 Jy in the Arecibo sky and(0° ≤ δ ≤ 37°) was examined previously for 1612 MHz masers. The resulting set of OH/IR stars has now been searched for mainline OH masers at Arecibo (Lewis 1997) and for 22 GHz water masers at Effelsberg (Engels & Lewis 1996). The high overall detection rate of 61.6% for the mainlines and 54.8% for water is partly a result of deployed sensitivity, and partly due to the many blue objects in the sample. But the detectability of both masers improves when S(25)> 20 Jy, as the accompanying tables show. Still the bluest objects exhibit higher (usually ≥80%) detection rates, while there is a clear decrease in detections from redder shells: this decrease begins circa (25–12) μm=–0.55 for mainline masers, and abruptly circa (25–12) μm = −0.35 for water. These trends adhere to the descriptive sequence of the chronological scenario for masers in circumstellar shells, though a few proto planetary nebulae and very red OH/IR stars have water masers and a few mainline masers are detected in shells with (25-12) μm ≥ −0.2.

Type
V. From AGB to Planetary Nebulae
Copyright
Copyright © Kluwer 1997 

References

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