Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astronomy
Scientific paper
Jan 2009
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2009aas...21334703g&link_type=abstract
American Astronomical Society, AAS Meeting #213, #347.03; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 41, p.483
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astronomy
Scientific paper
A detailed picture of high-mass star formation has remained elusive, largely owing to difficulties in probing the circumstellar gas around high-mass young stellar objects (YSOs) at scales 10-100 AU, where outflows are expected to be launched and collimated by accretion disks. Radio Source I in Orion BN/KL is the nearest example of a high-mass YSO, and only one of three YSOs known to power both SiO and H2O masers. Using VLA and VLBA observations of both maser species, the KaLYPSO project (http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/kalypso/) aims to overcome past observational limitations by mapping the structure, 3-D velocity field, and dynamical evolution of the circumstellar gas 10-1000 AU from Source I. Based on 20 epochs of VLBA observations over 2 years, I will present a movie of bulk gas flow tracing the compact disk and bipolar flow from Source I, discuss its relationship to the large-scale outflows in the BN/KL region, and comment on implications for the structure of the global star forming region. Assuming that Source I represents a common stage of high-mass YSO evolution, interpretation of the 3-D dynamical evolution of Source I will provide unique constraints on models of high-mass star formation.
The KaLYPSO project is supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. NSF AST 0507478.
Chandler Claire J.
Goddi Ciriaco
Greenhill Lincoln J.
Humphreys E. M. L.
Matthews Lynn Diane
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