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ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL
卷 677, 期 2, 页码 1140-1150出版社
UNIV CHICAGO PRESS
DOI: 10.1086/529132
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circumstellar matter; masers; radio lines : stars; stars : emission-line; Be; stars : individual (MWC 349A); stars : winds, outflows
We used the Submillimeter Array to map the angular distribution of the H30 alpha recombination line (231.9 GHz) in the circumstellar region of the peculiar star MWC349A. The resolution was 1.2 '', but because of high signal-to-noise ratio we measured the positions of all maser components to accuracies better than 0.0100, at a velocity resolution of 1 km s(-1). The two strongest maser components (called high-velocity components) at velocities near -14 and 32 km s(-1) are separated by 0: 048 '' +/- 0: 001 '' (60 AU) along a position angle of 102 degrees +/- 1 degrees. The distribution of maser emission at velocities between and beyond these two strongest components were also provided. The continuum emission lies at the center of the maser distribution to within 10 mas. The masers appear to trace a nearly edge-on rotating disk structure, reminiscent of the water masers in Keplerian rotation in the nuclear accretion disk of the galaxy NGC 4258. However, the maser components in MWC 349A do not follow a simple Keplerian kinematic prescription with v similar to r(-1/2), but have a larger power-law index. We explore the possibility that the high-velocity masers trace spiral density or shock waves. We also emphasize caution in the interpretation of relative centroid maser positions where the maser is not clearly resolved in position or velocity, and we present simulations that illustrate the range of applicability of the centroiding method.
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