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WIDE FIELD CO MAPPING IN THE REGION OF IRAS 19312+1950

Authors :
Bosco H. K. Yung
Chih-Hao Hsia
Yong Zhang
Dmitry A. Ladeyschikov
Jun-ichi Nakashima
Andrej M. Sobolev
Source :
Astrophysical Journal
Publication Year :
2016

Abstract

We report the results of a wide field CO mapping in the region of IRAS 19312+1950. This IRAS object exhibits SiO/H$_2$O/OH maser emission, and is embedded in a chemically-rich molecular component, of which the origin is still unknown. In order to reveal the entire structure and gas mass of the surrounding molecular component for the first time, we have mapped a wide region around IRAS 19312+1950 in the $^{12}$CO $J=1-0$, $^{13}$CO $J=1-0$ and C$^{18}$O $J=1-0$ lines using the Nobeyama 45m telescope. In conjunction with the archival CO maps, we investigated a region with a size up to $20' \times 20'$ around this IRAS object. We calculated CO gas mass assuming the LTE condition, a stellar velocity against to the interstellar medium assuming an analytic model of a bow shock, and absolute luminosity using the latest archival data and trigonometric parallax distance. The derived gas-mass (225 M$_{\odot}$ $-$ 478 M$_{\odot}$) of the molecular component and the relatively large luminosity ($2.63\times10^{4}$ L$_{\odot}$) suggest that the central SiO/H$_2$O/OH maser source seems to be a red supergiant (RSG) rather than an asymptotic giant branch (AGB) star or post-AGB star.<br />Comment: 35 pages, 7 figures, 4 tables; accepted for publication in ApJ

Details

Language :
English
Database :
OpenAIRE
Journal :
Astrophysical Journal
Accession number :
edsair.doi.dedup.....6f9265c1d38dafb695724a0072d67724