On the Identification of High Mass Star Forming Regions using IRAS: Contamination by Low-Mass Protostars

Details On the Identification of High Mass Star Forming Regions using IRAS: Contamination by Low-Mass Protostars On the Identification of High Mass Star Forming Regions using IRAS: Contamination by Low-Mass Protostars

2005-04-22

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0504500v1

Astrophys.J. 625 (2005) 883-890

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

8 pages with 2 figures. Accepted by ApJ

Scientific paper

10.1086/429818

We present the results of a survey of a small sample (14) of low-mass protostars (L_IR < 10^3 Lsun) for 6.7 GHz methanol maser emission performed using the ATNF Parkes radio telescope. No new masers were discovered. We find that the lower luminosity limit for maser emission is near 10^3 Lsun, by comparison of the sources in our sample with previously detected methanol maser sources. We examine the IRAS properties of our sample and compare them with sources previously observed for methanol maser emission, almost all of which satisfy the Wood & Churchwell criterion for selecting candidate UCHII regions. We find that about half of our sample satisfy this criterion, and in addition almost all of this subgroup have integrated fluxes between 25 and 60 microns that are similar to sources with detectable methanol maser emission. By identifying a number of low-mass protostars in this work and from the literature that satisfy the Wood & Churchwell criterion for candidate UCHII regions, we show conclusively for the first time that the fainter flux end of their sample is contaminated by lower-mass non-ionizing sources, confirming the suggestion by van der Walt and Ramesh & Sridharan.

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