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Scientific paper
Oct 1999
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1999alma.confe..32l&link_type=abstract
Science with the Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA), Associated Universities, Inc., held October 6-8, 1999 at Carnegie Instit
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Water Maser, Clusters, Protostars, Shock
Scientific paper
We demonstrate using the rich water maser cluster W49N as an example, how simultaneously obtained 22 GHz single-dish and multi-epoch VLBI observations of the masing water line can be used to quantitatively diagnose shocked and turbulent regions around protostars. The principal factors that determine the physical properties of a shocked region are the preshock density, the shock velocity (obtained from proper motion measurements of the masers), and the preshock magnetic field parameter (obtained from non-thermal variations in the Doppler velocity within maser features). When two of these are observationally well constrained, all other physical quantities can be determined with available shock and maser models. We succeeded to observationally fix the free parameters in the shock model of Hollenbach and McKee and the maser model of Elitzur, Hollenbach, and McKee. This enabled us to determine some 20 shock and maser parameters of W49N. The high-resolution imaging capabilities of ALMA should allow detailed studies of a variety of shocked regions of the interstellar medium and also sample transitions at higher frequencies and molecular species other than water.
Gwinn Carl
Liljestrøm Tarja
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