Ground Vibrational State SiO Emission in the VLA BAaDE Survey
Using a subsample of the Bulge Asymmetries and Dynamical Evolution (BAaDE) survey of stellar SiO masers, we explore the prevalence and characteristics of 28SiO J 1 0, v 0 emission. We identify 90 detections of maser, thermal, or composite 28SiO J 1 0, v 0 emission out of approximately 13,000 candidate spectra from the National Science Foundation's Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA) We find that the detected sources are likely asymptotic giant branch stars belonging to a bright, foreground Milky Way stellar disk population. For the 32 sources showing thermal components, we extract values for outflow velocity by fitting thermal line profiles. We find a range of circumstellar envelope expansion velocities, and compare to previously recorded OH and CO expansion velocities. This preliminary survey is already the largest study of stellar ground vibrational state SiO masers to date, and will be expanded to include the entire VLA BAaDE data set when data reduction for the 18,988 target sources is completed.