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2023ApJ...943...79A - Astrophys. J., 943, 79 (2023/February-1)

Proper Motions of Water Masers in W49 N Measured by KaVA.

ASANOK K., GRAY M.D., HIROTA T., SUGIYAMA K., PHETRA M., KRAMER B.H., LIU T., KIM K.-T. and PIMPANUWAT B.

Abstract (from CDS):

We report the proper motions of 22 GHz water masers toward W49 N that were observed by the KVN and VERA Array (KaVA) during 2017 February-May. We found 263, 268, and 310 features in three successive epochs; they were distributed in a region of size 4 × 4 arcsec2. The strongest flux density was in the third epoch, and its averaged value was 18,090 Jy at VLSR +0.47 km s–1. For 102 H2O maser features, proper motion was detected across all three epochs. The average proper motions in R.A. and decl. offset were -0.352 and +0.890 mas yr–1, respectively. The morphology of the distribution of the H2O maser features was found to be a bipolar outflow structure with an inclination angle of 37° ± 13° to the line of sight, and the features were expanding from a well-defined outflow center. A model of the source combining expansion and rotation yielded a distance to W49 of 11.12 ± 0.96 kpc that is consistent with the results from trigonometric parallax. A redshifted lobe was situated in the northeast direction and a blueshifted lobe in the southwest direction. We also discussed the location of the powerful flaring H2O maser feature at VLSR = + 6 km s–1 and its possible mechanisms on the basis of spatial structures for the maser feature in VLBI maps observed with the KaVA, timed just before and during the rebrightening phase.

Abstract Copyright: © 2023. The Author(s). Published by the American Astronomical Society.

Journal keyword(s): Astrophysical masers - Water masers - Star formation - Interstellar medium - Interstellar molecules - Stellar jets - Protostars - Jets

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