2005AJ....130.2732M

I present observations made with the National Radio Astronomy Observatory's Very Large Array and Very Long Baseline Array of the water masers near the candidate Herbig Ae/Be star V1318 Cygni S (V1318S) in the vicinity of the Herbig Ae/Be star BD +40 4124 and near the Herbig Ae/Be star LkHα 234. The water masers are not found to be associated with either of the Herbig Ae/Be stars dominant in the optical but with other embedded sources. The masers appear to form in the outflows from these sources, some of which have been detected in radio continuum by other authors. The water masers near BD +40 4124 are found to be associated with the star V1318S, itself a candidate Herbig Ae/Be star. The water masers imaged with very long baseline interferometry resolutions near LkHα 234 are found to be associated with the continuum sources LkHα 234-VLA 2 and LkHα 234-VLA 3B. I do not detect maser emission from LkHα 234-VLA1. It is likely that the water maser emission originally thought to be associated with Herbig Ae/Be stars is in fact hosted by embedded young stellar objects, is linked to their outflowing jets, and is not found in their disks.