MASSIVE STAR FORMATION TOWARD G28.87+0.07 (IRAS 18411-0338) INVESTIGATED BY MEANS OF MASER KINEMATICS AND RADIO TO INFRARED CONTINUUM OBSERVATIONS

Journal Article · Tue Apr 10 04:00:00 EDT 2012 · Astrophysical Journal

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/749/1/47· OSTI ID:22020489

Li, J J; Xu, Y ^[1]; Moscadelli, L; Cesaroni, R ^[2]; Furuya, R S; Usuda, T ^[3]; Menten, K M ^[4]; Pestalozzi, M; Elia, D; Schisano, E ^[5]

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1. Purple Mountain Observatory, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing 210008 (China)
2. INAF-Osservatorio Astrofisico di Arcetri, Largo E. Fermi 5, I-50125 Firenze (Italy)
3. Subaru Telescope, National Astronomical Observatory of Japan, 650 North A'ohoku Place, Hilo, HI 96720 (United States)
4. Max-Planck-Institut fuer Radioastronomie, Auf dem Huegel 69, 53121 Bonn (Germany)
5. INAF-Istituto Fisica Spazio Interplanetario, Via Fosso del Cavaliere 100, I-00133 Roma (Italy)

We used the Very Long Baseline Array and the European VLBI Network to perform phase-referenced very long baseline interferometry observations of the three most powerful maser transitions associated with the high-mass star-forming region G28.87+0.07: the 22.2 GHz H{sub 2}O, 6.7 GHz CH{sub 3}OH, and 1.665 GHz OH lines. We also performed Very Large Array (VLA) observations of the radio continuum emission at 1.3 and 3.6 cm and Subaru observations of the continuum emission at 24.5 {mu}m. Two centimeter-continuum sources are detected and one of them (named hot molecular core (HMC)) is compact and placed at the center of the observed distribution of H{sub 2}O, CH{sub 3}OH, and OH masers. The bipolar distribution of line-of-sight velocities and the pattern of the proper motions suggest that the water masers are driven by a (proto)stellar jet interacting with the dense circumstellar gas. The same jet could both excite the centimeter-continuum source named HMC (interpreted as free-free emission from shocked gas) and power the molecular outflow observed at larger scales-although one cannot exclude that the free-free continuum is rather originating from a hypercompact H II region. At 24.5 {mu}m, we identify two objects separated along the north-south direction, whose absolute positions agree with those of the two VLA continuum sources. We establish that {approx}90% of the luminosity of the region ({approx}2 Multiplication-Sign 10{sup 5} L{sub Sun }) is coming from the radio source HMC, which confirms the existence of an embedded massive young stellar object exciting the masers and possibly still undergoing heavy accretion from the surrounding envelope.

• OSTI ID: 22020489
• Journal Information: Astrophysical Journal, Journal Name: Astrophysical Journal Journal Issue: 1 Vol. 749; ISSN ASJOAB; ISSN 0004-637X
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

79 ASTRONOMY AND ASTROPHYSICS
ASTROPHYSICS
INTERFEROMETRY
LUMINOSITY
MASERS
MASS
METHANOL
PHOTON EMISSION
PROPER MOTION
STARS
WATER