VBLA observations of W51 Main/South

DOI

We report measurement of the trigonometric parallax of W51 Main/South using the Very Long Baseline Array. We measure a value of 0.185+/-0.010mas corresponding to a distance of 5.41^+0.31^-0.28_kpc. W51 Main/South is a well-known massive star-forming region near the tangent point of the Sagittarius spiral arm of the Milky Way. Our distance to W51 yields an estimate of the distance to the Galactic center of R_0=8.3+/-0.46(statistical)+/-1.0(systematic)kpc by simple geometry. Combining the parallax and proper motion measurements for W51, we obtained the full-space motion of this massive star-forming region. We find W51 is in a nearly circular orbit about the Galactic center. The H_2_O masers used for our parallax measurements trace four powerful bipolar outflows within a 0.4pc size region, some of which are associated with dusty molecular hot cores and/or hyper- or ultra-compact HII regions.

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DOI http://doi.org/10.26093/cds/vizier.17201055
Source https://dc.g-vo.org/rr/q/lp/custom/CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/720/1055
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Provenance
Creator Sato M.; Reid M.J.; Brunthaler A.; Menten K.M.
Publisher CDS
Publication Year 2012
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Representation
Resource Type Dataset; AstroObjects
Discipline Astrophysics and Astronomy; Galactic and extragalactic Astronomy; Interstellar medium; Natural Sciences; Observational Astronomy; Physics