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Friday 04 Sep 2009: HOPS: The H2O Southern Galactic Plane Survey
Dr Andrew Walsh - James Cook University, Australia
Physics, 4th Floor interaction area 12:00-13:00
Recent upgrades to the Mopra radiotelescope in Australia allow us to conduct large-scale surveys in many spectral lines simultaneously. I will describe an ongoing major project, HOPS, which is a survey of the southern Galactic plane at 12mm. We have so far covered nearly 60 square degrees of the Galactic plane and have detected 368 water masers, most of which are new. I will also report on detected emission in ammonia, methanol, cyanoacetylene and radio recombination lines.