The VLBI Monitoring Project for 6.7 GHz Methanol Masers Using the JVN/EAVN

Koichiro Sugiyama, Kenta Fujisawa, Kazuya Hachisuka, Yoshinori Yonekura, Kazuhito Motogi, Satoko Sawada-Satoh, Naoko Matsumoto, Yu Saito, Daiki Hirano, Kyonosuke Hayashi, Zhi Qiang Shen, Mareki Honma, Tomoya Hirota, Yasuhiro Murata, Akihiro Doi, Kotaro Niinuma, Richard Dodson, Maria Rioja, Simon Ellingsen, Xi ChenKee Tae Kim, Hideo Ogawa

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Abstract

We have initiated a Very Long Baseline Interferometer (VLBI) monitoring project of 36 methanol maser sources at 6.7 GHz using the Japanese VLBI Network (JVN) and East-Asian VLBI Network (EAVN), starting in August 2010. The purpose of this project is to systematically reveal 3-dimensional (3-D) kinematics of rotating disks around forming high-mass protostars. As an initial result, we present proper motion detections for two methanol maser sources showing an elliptical spatial morphology, G 002.53+00.19 and G 006.79-00.25, which could be the best candidates associated with the disk. The detected proper motions indicate a simple rotation in G 002.53+00.19 and rotation with expansion in G 006.79-00.25, respectively, on the basis of disk model fits with rotating and expanding components. The expanding motions might be caused by the magnetic-centrifugal wind on the disk.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)645 - 647
JournalPublications of The Korean Astronomical Society
Volume30
Issue number2
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Sept 2015

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