Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2007-10-10
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
7 pages, 5 figures, PASJ 60, No. 1 (2008 Feb. 25 issue) in press. High res. figures available at ftp://ftp.nro.nao.ac.jp/nrore
Scientific paper
We report on the H2O maser distributions around IRAS 22480+6002 (=IRC+60370) observed with the Japanese VLBI Network (JVN) at three epochs spanning 2 months. This object was identified as a K-type supergiant in 1970s, which was unusual as a stellar maser source. The spectrum of H2O masers consists of 5 peaks separated roughly equally by a few km/s each. The H2O masers were spatially resolved into more than 15 features, which spread about 50 mas along the east--west direction. However, no correlation was found between the proper motion vectors and their spatial distributions; the velocity field of the envelope seems random. A statistical parallax method applied to the observed proper-motion data set gives a distance of 1.0+-0.4 kpc for this object, that is considerably smaller than previously thought. The distance indicates that this is an evolved star with L~5800 Lsun. This star shows radio, infrared, and optical characteristics quite similar to those of the population II post-AGB stars such as RV Tau variables.
Deguchi Shigeki
Fujii Takenori
Imai Hiroshi
Omodaka Toshihiro
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