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Accelerating a water maser face-on jet from a high mass young stellar object

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics 2015-02-11 v2

Abstract

We report on a long-term single-dish and VLBI monitoring for intermittent flare activities of a Dominant Blue-Shifted H2_{2}O Maser (DBSM) associated with a southern high mass young stellar object, G353.273+0.641. Bi-weekly single-dish monitoring using Hokkaido University Tomakomai 11-m radio telescope has shown that a systematic acceleration continues over four years beyond a lifetime of individual maser features. This fact suggests that the H2_{2}O maser traces a region where molecular gas is steadily accelerated. There were five maser flares during five-years monitoring, and maser distributions in four of them were densely monitored by the VLBI Exploration of Radio Astrometry (VERA). The overall distribution of the maser features suggests the presence of a bipolar jet, with the 3D kinematics indicating that it is almost face-on (inclination angle of \sim 8\fdg^{\fdg}--17\fdg^{\fdg} from the line-of-sight). Most of maser features were recurrently excited within a region of 100×\times100 AU2^{2} around the radio continuum peak, while their spatial distributions significantly varied between each flare. This confirms that episodic propagations of outflow shocks recurrently invoke intermittent flare activities. We also measured annual parallax, deriving the source distance of 1.70 0.16+0.19^{+0.19}_{-0.16} kpc that is consistent with the commonly-used photometric distance.

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@article{arxiv.1502.00376,
  title  = {Accelerating a water maser face-on jet from a high mass young stellar object},
  author = {Kazuhito Motogi and Kazuo Sorai and Mareki Honma and Tomoya Hirota and Kazuya Hachisuka and Kotaro Niinuma and Koichiro Sugiyama and Yoshinori Yonekura and Kenta Fujisawa},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1502.00376},
  year   = {2015}
}

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Accepted to PASJ, 17 pages, 12 figure

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