Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astronomy
Scientific paper
Dec 2005
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Future Directions in High Resolution Astronomy: The 10th Anniversary of the VLBA, ASP Conference Proceedings, Vol. 340. Edited
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astronomy
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Scientific paper
The European VLBI Network (EVN) has been used to make phase referenced, wide-field (several arcminute) spectral line observations of the 6.7-GHz methanol maser emission towards W51. In the W51main region, the bulk of the methanol is offset from an UCH II region. This probably indicates the methanol emission arises at the interface of the expanding UCH II region and not from an edge-on circumstellar disc, as previously suggested. Near the W51 IRS2 region, the methanol emission is associated with a very compact, extremely embedded source supporting the hypothesis that methanol masers trace the earliest stages of massive star formation. As well as these two previously well studied sites of star formation, many previously unknown regions star formation are detected, demonstrating that methanol masers are powerful means of detecting young massive stars.
Phillips Chris
van Langevelde Hubrecht Jan
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