2016A&A...588A..47V

A number of mechanisms for understanding the periodic class II methanol masers associated with some high-mass star forming regions have been proposed in the past. Two recent proposals by Parfenov & Sobolev (2014MNRAS.444..620P) and Sanna et al. (2015ApJ...804L...2S) have been presented in order to explain the periodic masers in sources with light curves similar to the methanol masers in G9.62+0.20E. We evaluate to what extent the proposals and models presented by these authors can explain the light curve of the methanol masers in G9.62+0.20E. It is argued that neither of the proposed mechanisms can reproduce the light curves of the methanol masers in G9.62+0.20E.