ANNUAL PARALLAX DETERMINATION TOWARD A NEW X-RAY-EMITTING CLASS 0 CANDIDATE WITH THE WATER MASER IN THE NGC 2264 STAR-FORMING REGION

Journal Article · Tue Apr 01 04:00:00 EDT 2014 · Astrophysical Journal, Supplement Series

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1088/0067-0049/211/2/18· OSTI ID:22340295

Kamezaki, Tatsuya; Imura, Kenji; Omodaka, Toshihiro; Handa, Toshihiro ^[1]; Tsuboi, Yohko ^[2]; Nagayama, Takumi; Hirota, Tomoya; Sunada, Kazuyoshi; Kobayashi, Hideyuki ^[3]; Chibueze, James O. ^[4]; Kawai, Eiji ^[5]; Nakano, Makoto ^[6]

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1. Department of Physics and Astronomy, Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Kagoshima University, 1-21-35 Korimoto, Kagoshima 890-0065 (Japan)
2. Department of Physics, Faculty of Science and Engineering, Chuo University, 1-13-27 Kasuga, Bunkyo, Tokyo 112-8551 (Japan)
3. Mizusawa VLBI Observatory, Mitaka Office, National Astronomical Observatory of Japan, 2-21-1 Osawa, Mitaka, Tokyo 181-8588 (Japan)
4. East Asian ALMA Regional Center, National Astronomical Observatory of Japan, 2-21-1 Osawa, Mitaka, Tokyo 181-8588 (Japan)
5. Kashima Space Technology Center, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, 893-1 Hirai, Kashima, Ibaraki 314-8501 (Japan)
6. Faculty of Education and Welfare Science, Oita University, Oita 870-1192 (Japan)

In our multi-epoch observation of the star-forming region NGC 2264 with the VLBI Exploration of Radio Astrometry, we detected two water maser features. We have measured the annual parallax of the maser sources for the first time in NGC 2264 and derived 1.356 ± 0.098 mas, corresponding to the distance of 738{sub −50}{sup +57} pc, which is consistent with its previously reported photometric observations. One of the maser features is located near a dust continuum core, CMM4S, positionally corresponding to the X-ray source FMS2-1269 listed in Flaccomio et al. Re-analyzing Chandra X-ray data, we found that FMS2-1269 is still surrounded by a dense envelope of a H{sub 2} column density, 5.4 × 10{sup 23} cm{sup –2}. We suggest that the maser detected near the CMM4S core is most likely associated with the X-ray-emitting Class 0 candidate FMS2-1269. The other maser feature is found to emerge from a high-velocity outflow of 150 km s{sup –1} and is associated with the 3.6 cm radio continuum source NGC 2264 VLA 3 located close to IRS1.

• OSTI ID: 22340295
• Journal Information: Astrophysical Journal, Supplement Series, Journal Name: Astrophysical Journal, Supplement Series Journal Issue: 2 Vol. 211; ISSN 0067-0049; ISSN APJSA2
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

79 ASTRONOMY AND ASTROPHYSICS
COSMIC DUST
DENSITY
HYDROGEN
MASERS
RADIOMETRIC SURVEYS
STARS
WATER
X RADIATION
X-RAY SOURCES