VBLA observations of W51 Main/South Virtual Observatory Resource

Authors
  1. Sato M.
  2. Reid M.J.
  3. Brunthaler A.
  4. Menten K.M.
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    CDS
Abstract

We report measurement of the trigonometric parallax of W51 Main/South using the Very Long Baseline Array. We measure a value of 0.185+/-0.010mas corresponding to a distance of 5.41^+0.31^_-0.28_kpc. W51 Main/South is a well-known massive star-forming region near the tangent point of the Sagittarius spiral arm of the Milky Way. Our distance to W51 yields an estimate of the distance to the Galactic center of R_0_=8.3+/-0.46(statistical)+/-1.0(systematic)kpc by simple geometry. Combining the parallax and proper motion measurements for W51, we obtained the full-space motion of this massive star-forming region. We find W51 is in a nearly circular orbit about the Galactic center. The H_2_O masers used for our parallax measurements trace four powerful bipolar outflows within a 0.4pc size region, some of which are associated with dusty molecular hot cores and/or hyper- or ultra-compact HII regions.

Keywords
  1. Astrophysical masers
  2. Radio astronomy
  3. Proper motions
  4. H II regions
  5. Very long baseline interferometry
Bibliographic source Bibcode
2010ApJ...720.1055S
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2012-08-22T12:05:01Z
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2012-08-22T12:05:01Z
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