A survey of 20 dense clumps in five massive star-forming regions finds a strong mass-size correlation, weak dynamical correlations, and hints that magnetic fields around 1 mG help stabilize the most massive clumps.
A `Water Spout' Maser Jet in S235AB-MIR
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We report on annual parallax and proper motion observations of H2O masers in S235AB-MIR, which is a massive young stellar object in the Perseus Arm. Using multi-epoch VLBI astrometry we measured a parallax of pi = 0.63 +- 0.03 mas, corresponding to a trigonometric distance of D = 1.56+-0.09 kpc, and source proper motion of ( u alpha cos d , u d) = (0.79 +- 0.12, -2.41 +- 0.14) mas/yr. Water masers trace a jet of diameter 15 au which exhibits a definite radial velocity gradient perpendicular to its axis. 3D maser kinematics were well modelled by a rotating cylinder with physical parameters: v_out = 45+-2 km/s, v_rot = 22+-3 km/s, i = 12+-2 degrees, which are the outflow velocity, tangential rotation velocity and line-of-sight inclination, respectively. One maser feature exhibited steady acceleration which may be related to the jet rotation. During our 15 month VLBI programme there were three `maser burst' events caught `in the act' which were caused by the overlapping of masers along the line of sight.
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Study of the physical and chemical properties of dense clumps at different evolutionary stages in several regions of massive star and stellar cluster formation
A survey of 20 dense clumps in five massive star-forming regions finds a strong mass-size correlation, weak dynamical correlations, and hints that magnetic fields around 1 mG help stabilize the most massive clumps.