Water fountain cand. from H_2_O masers (22.235GHz) Virtual Observatory Resource

Authors
  1. Fan H.
  2. Nakashima J.-I.
  3. Engels D.
  4. Zhang Y.
  5. Qiu J.-J.
  6. Feng H.-X.,Xie J.-Y.
  7. Imai H.
  8. Hsia C.-H.
  9. Published by
    CDS
Abstract

Water fountains (WFs) are thought to be objects in the morphological evolution of the circumstellar envelopes of low- and intermediate-mass evolved stars, transitioning from spherically symmetric to asymmetric shapes. We used databases of circumstellar 1612MHz OH and 22.235GHz H2O maser sources to search for new WF candidates using the criterion of a larger velocity range of the H2O maser emission compared to that of the OH maser emission. Thus, it is in principle possible to identify WFs with H2O velocity ranges smaller than those for the previously known WFs. For the OH maser line, we analyzed database entries of 8474 observations from 2195 sources, and 6085 observations from 3642 sources for the H2O maser line. After a close examination of the velocity ranges and line profiles, we identified 11 sources that meet the criterion mentioned above. We examined the IRAS colors of the selected sources and found that two of them (IRAS 19069+0916 and IRAS19319+2214) are in the color region for post-AGB stars. We find that the maser velocity criterion can discover other astrophysically interesting objects than just WFs. Such objects may include peculiar planetary nebulae with maser emissions and stellar merger remnants.

Keywords
  1. astrophysical-masers
  2. radio-astronomy
  3. astronomical-reference-materials
  4. giant-stars
  5. interstellar-medium
Bibliographic source Bibcode
2024ApJS..270...13F
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doi:10.26093/cds/vizier.22700013

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2024-05-13T12:53:15Z
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2024-05-13T12:53:15Z
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2024-09-18T20:18:13Z
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