Abstract
A sample of 174 methanol sources has been observed with the 32 m Toruń radio telescope at four or five epochs separated by 3-7 months. Observations of the 6.7 GHz maser line revealed that about 80% of sources are variable. 20% of sources showed strong variations of the integrated flux density usually on time-scales of 5-12 months. These variations were associated with strong changes in the relative intensities of maser features. Methanol emission from five sources disappeared. The time-scales of variability were longer than 12 months for only 23% of variable sources. It is suggested that the variability of methanol emission is related to the dynamics of the maser regions.
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