Distances to Galactic methanol masers
Astrophysics
2008-12-09 v2
Abstract
We present the first EVN parallax measurements of 6.7 GHz methanol masers in star forming regions of the Galaxy. The 6.7 GHz methanol maser transition is a very valuable astrometric tool, for its large stability and confined velocity spread, which makes it ideal to measure proper motions and parallaxes. Eight well-studied massive star forming regions have been observed during five EVN sessions of 24 hours duration each and we present here preliminary results for five of them. We achieve accuracies of up to 51 as, which still have the potential to be proved by more ideal observational circumstances.
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@article{arxiv.0812.0905,
title = {Distances to Galactic methanol masers},
author = {K. L. J. Rygl and A. Brunthaler and K. M. Menten and M. J. Reid and H. J. van Langevelde},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0812.0905},
year = {2008}
}
Comments
6 pages, 1 figure, corrected typos, 9th EVN Symposium, September 23-26, 2008, Bologna, Italy