Online database of water masers in the star-forming regions: the first results
The first results of developing a database of water masers in star-forming regions are presented. The database is stored online at the address http://maserdb.net. The coverage of the database at the time of publication is 84 % of all positive detections of water masers in star-forming regions from the available literature. Preliminary statistical analysis of the data and study of the association between water masers and ATLASGAL 870 μm sources was carried out. A relation was obtained from the generalized linear model to estimate water maser detection probability depending on the physical parameters of clumps from the ATLASGAL catalogue. According to estimates, only ∼25 % of the total number of water masers towards ATLASGAL sources has been detected at the moment.