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Proper motions of water masers: W 51 North, Main, and South

Authors :
Osamu Kameya
Tetsuo Sasao
Masanori Nishio
Y. Asaki
Junichi Nakajima
Teruhiko Watanabe
Hiroshi Imai
Toshihiro Omodaka
Source :
Symposium - International Astronomical Union. 206:88-91
Publication Year :
2002
Publisher :
Cambridge University Press (CUP), 2002.

Abstract

We describe the proper motion measurements of water masers in the massive-star forming region W 51A and the analysis of the 3-D kinematics in three maser clusters of W 51A. We found a systematic expanding motion in one of the clusters named W 51 North, while no systematic motion was detected in other two clusters named W 51 Main and South. The 3-D motions of the clusters relative to the position reference feature in W 51 North indicate a separating motion between the W 51 North and the W 51 Main/South clusters. We estimated the distance to W 51 North as to be 6.7±2.1 kpc on basis of the statistical parallax and the model fitting methods.

Details

ISSN :
00741809
Volume :
206
Database :
OpenAIRE
Journal :
Symposium - International Astronomical Union
Accession number :
edsair.doi...........ea4c4f1218fe320e031dd6e5a3e91859
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.1017/s0074180900222134