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PUBLICATIONS OF THE ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY OF JAPAN
卷 60, 期 5, 页码 1007-1012出版社
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/pasj/60.5.1007
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astrometry; masers (H2O); stars: distances; stars: individual (VY Canis Majoris); stars: supergiants; VERA
We report on astrometric observations of H2O masers around the red supergiant VY Canis Majoris carried out with VLBI Exploration of Radio Astrometry (VERA). Based on astrometric monitoring for 13 months, we successfully measured a trigonometric parallax of 0.88 +/- 0.08 mas, corresponding to a distance of 1.14(-0.09)(+0.11) kpc. This is the most accurate determined distance to VY CMa and the first one based on an annual parallax measurement. The luminosity of VY CMa has been overestimated due to a previously accepted distance. With our result, we re-estimated the luminosity of VY CMa to be (3 +/- 0.5) x 10(5) L-circle dot using the bolometric flux integrated over optical and IR wavelengths. This improved luminosity value makes the location of VY CMa on the Hertzsprung-Russell (HR) diagram much closer to the theoretically allowable zone (i.e. the left side of the Hayashi track) than previous ones, though the uncertainty in the effective temperature of the stellar surface still does not permit us to make a final conclusion.
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