The nature of the methanol maser ring G23.657-00.127

Details The nature of the methanol maser ring G23.657-00.127 The nature of the methanol maser ring G23.657-00.127

2008-09-11

arxiv.org/abs/0809.1948v1

Astron.Astrophys.490:787-792,2008

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

6 pages, 3 figures, accepted for publication in A&A

Scientific paper

10.1051/0004-6361:200810470

Methanol masers are associated with young high-mass stars and are an important tool for investigating the process of massive star formation. The recently discovered methanol maser ring in G23.657-00.127 provides an excellent ``laboratory'' for a detailed study of the nature and physical origin of methanol maser emission, as well as parallax and proper motion measurements. Multi-epoch observations of the 12.2 GHz methanol maser line from the ring were conducted using the Very Long Baseline Array. Interferometric observations with milliarcsecond resolution enabled us to track single maser spots in great detail over a period of 2 years. We have determined the trigonometric parallax of G23.657-00.127 to be 0.313+/-0.039 mas, giving a distance of 3.19{+0.46}{-0.35} kpc. The proper motion of the source indicates that it is moving with the same circular velocity as the LSR, but it shows a large peculiar motion of about 35 km/s toward the Galactic center.

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