Title
VLBI monitoring observations of water masers around the semi-regular variable star R Crateris
Date Issued
01 January 2001
Access level
open access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Imai H.
Omodaka T.
Ueno M.
Kameya O.
Sasao T.
Morimoto M.
Miyaji T.
Nakajima J.i.
Watanabe T.
University of Tokyo
Publisher(s)
Astronomical Society of Japan
Oxford University Press
Abstract
We monitored water-vapor masers around the semi-regular variable star R Crateris with the Japanese VLBI Network (J-Net) at the 22 GHz band during four epochs with intervals of one month. The relative proper motions and Doppler-velocity drifts of twelve maser features were measured. Most of them existed for longer than 80 days. The 3-D kinematics of the features indicates a bipolar expanding flow. The major axis of the asymmetric flow was estimated to be at P.A. = 136°. The existence of a bipolar outflow suggests that a Mira variable star had already formed a bipolar outflow. The water masers are in a region of a apparent minimum radii of 1.3 x 1012m and maximum radii of 2.6 x 1012m, between which the expansion velocity ranges from 4.3 to 7.4 kms-1. These values suggest that the water masers are radially accelerated, but still gravitationally bound, in the water-maser region. The most positive and negative velocity-drifting features were found relatively close to the systemic velocity of the star. We found that the blue-shifted features are apparently accelerated and the red-shifted apparently decelerated. The acceleration of only the blue-shifted features seems to be consistent with that of the expanding flow from the star.
Start page
1231
End page
1238
Volume
53
Issue
6
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Astronomía
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-0035643919
Source
Publications of the Astronomical Society of Japan
ISSN of the container
0004-6264
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