Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astronomy
Scientific paper
Oct 1986
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1986inpr.conf...22g&link_type=abstract
In NASA. Ames Research Center Summer School on Interstellar Processes: Abstracts of Contributed Papers p 22 (SEE N87-15043 06-9
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astronomy
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Astronomical Maps, Interstellar Masers, Mapping, Molecular Clouds, Nebulae, Radio Astronomy, Silicon Oxides, Very Long Base Interferometry, Interstellar Matter, Red Shift
Scientific paper
A milliarcsecond resolution spot map of the SiO maser emission associated with IRC-2 in Orion-KL is presented. The two dominant groups of spectral features, near V(LRS) = -6 and 16 km/s, were observed in the 43 GHz, v = 1 to 0 transition of SiO, using a Mark III VLBI system. The 74 km baseline ran from Haystack Observatory in Westford, Massachusetts to Five College Radio Astronomy Observatory (FCRAO) in New Salem, Massachusetts. Five distinct maser features were observed: -8.5 to -6.5 km/s; -5 to -1.5 km/s; 12 to 13.5 km/s; 16.5 to 19 km/s; and 20 to 21 km/s (stellar velocity = 5 km/s). The relative positions were established, from an analysis of fringe phases, to an accuracy of about 5 milliarcseconds. All the features lay within an area of radius 0.08 arcseconds or 6x10(14) cm, at a distance of 500 pc. Previous interferometric studies were only able to measure the gross separation between the red and the blue shifted groups. Our measurement of the separation between these two gropus is consistent with those of the previous studies, indicating the persistence of these two centers of activity. The absolute positions of the masers with respect to IRC-2 are only known to an accuracy of about 1 arcsecond. It is assumed that IRC-2 is centered between the red shifted and the blue shifted maser features. The relative placement of these two groups of maser features agrees with observations of thermal emission from SO, which traces the outflow on a much larger scale. The SiO masers trace the neutral outflow from IRC-2 on the smallest scale yet observed.
Greenhill Lincoln J.
Moran James Michael
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