A Bipolar Outflow of the M-Type Giant IRC -10414 Traced by H2O Maser Emission

Details A Bipolar Outflow of the M-Type Giant IRC -10414 Traced by H2O Maser Emission A Bipolar Outflow of the M-Type Giant IRC -10414 Traced by H2O Maser Emission

Oct 2008

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2008pasj...60.1057m&link_type=abstract

Publications of the Astronomical Society of Japan, Vol.60, No.5, pp.1057--1067

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

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Masers, Stars: Agb And Post-Agb, Stars: Individual (Irc -10414), Stars: Late-Type

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We report on results of five-epoch VLBI observations of H2O maser emission in the M-type star IRC -10414, carried out with the VLBI Exploration of Radio Astrometry (VERA). The maser distribution extends over an area of 70mas×260mas and exhibits a bipolar structure. The relative proper motions of 17 maser features were measured during the monitoring observations spanning nine months. The distance to IRC -10414 was re-estimated on the basis of the statistical treatment of parallax and the model-fitting method, yielding D = 3.1±0.4kpc and D = 2.0±0.2kpc, respectively. The estimated distance, D = 2-3kpc, is much larger than that previously adopted. The stellar luminosity of IRC -10414 is also re-estimated to be L* ˜9 × 104 (D/2kpc) 2Lodot, much brighter by a factor of 10-20 than previously adopted (L* ˜ 10000Lodot). The maser motions exhibit not only a spherically expanding flow with a velocity of ˜10 (D/2kpc) km s-1, but also a faster bipolar outflow with a major axis in the north-south direction and at a small inclination angle with respect to the celestial sphere. These characteristics of the star and the circumstellar envelope seen in IRC -10414 are very similar to those in some supergiants exhibiting bipolar stellar mass loss.

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