Water maser motions in W3(OH) and a determination of its distance

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2005-12-08

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0512226v2

Astrophys.J.645:337-344,2006

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

14 pages, 6 figures, accepted to ApJ

Scientific paper

10.1086/502962

We report phase-referencing VLBA observations of H2O masers near the star-forming region W3(OH) to measure their parallax and absolute proper motions. The measured annual parallax is 0.489 +/- 0.017 milli-arcseconds (2.04 +/- 0.07 kpc), where the error is dominated by a systematic atmospheric contribution. This distance is consistent with photometric distances from previous observations and with the distance determined from CH3OH maser astrometry presented in a related paper. We also find that the source driving the H2O outflow, the ``TW-object'', moves with a 3-dimensional velocity of > 7 km/s relative to the ultracompact HII region W3(OH).

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