Absolute proper motions of water masers in NGC 281 measured with VERA

Details Absolute proper motions of water masers in NGC 281 measured with VERA Absolute proper motions of water masers in NGC 281 measured with VERA

Mar 2007

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Astrophysical Masers and their Environments, Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union, IAU Symposium, Volume 242, p.

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

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Astrometry, Galaxy: Kinematics And Dynamics, Ism: Bubbles, Masers

Scientific paper

We report on absolute proper-motion measurements of H2O maser features in the NGC 281 West molecular cloud, located ~320 pc above the Galactic plane and associated with an HI loop extending from the Galactic plane. We conducted six-epoch phase-referencing observations of the maser source with VERA (VLBI Exploration of Radio Astrometry) over six months since May 2006. The H2O maser features are found to be systematically moving toward the southwest and further away from the Galactic plane with a vertical velocity of ~20 30 km s-1 at its estimated distance of 2.2 3.5 kpc. Our new results provide the most direct evidence that the gas in the NGC 281 region was blown out from the Galactic plane, most likely in a superbubble driven by multiple or sequential supernova explosions in the Galactic plane.

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