A preliminary distance to W 75N in the Cygnus X star-forming region

Details A preliminary distance to W 75N in the Cygnus X star-forming region A preliminary distance to W 75N in the Cygnus X star-forming region

2010-11-23

arxiv.org/abs/1011.5042v2

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Galaxy Astrophysics

4 pages, 1 figure, proceedings of the 10th European VLBI Network Symposium, typo corrected

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Cygnus X is one of the closest giant molecular cloud complexes and therefore an extensively studied region of ongoing high mass star formation. However, the distance to this region has been a long-standing issue, since sources at galactic longitude of ~80 degrees could be in the Local Arm nearby (1-2 kpc), in the Perseus Arm at ~5 kpc, or even in the outer arm (~10 kpc). We use combined observations of the EVN plus two Japanese stations to measure very accurate parallaxes of methanol masers in five star-forming regions in Cygnus X to understand if they belong to one large star-forming complex or if they are separate entities located at different distances. Here we report our preliminary result for W75N based on six epochs of VLBI observations: we find that W75N is at a distance of 1.32^{+0.11}_{-0.09} kpc, which is significantly closer than the reported values in the literature (1.5-2 kpc).

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