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2025ApJ...987..114I - Astrophys. J., 987, 114 (2025/July-2)

SiO v = 1 J = 5 → 4 Maser Emission from the Root of the “Water Fountain” Source W 43A.

IMAI H., HOSHINO T., TAFOYA D., GOMEZ J.F., NAKASHIMA J.-I. and OROSZ G.

Abstract (from CDS):

We report here the first mapping of SiO v = 1 J = 5 → 4 maser emission toward the “water fountain” source W 43A in order to explore the central stellar system driving the collimated, bipolar, fast jet. The maser source has a systemic line-of-sight velocity consistent with that of CO J = 2 → 1 emission tracing the jet within ∼2 km s–1 but a velocity gradient opposite that of the jet. The dynamical center of the maser source is located within ∼10 mas (or ∼20 au) of the brightness peak of the central 1.3 mm continuum emission. The spatiokinematic properties of the SiO J = 5 → 4 and J = 1 → 0 masers suggest that they are associated with the root of a slow (10 km s–1 < Voutflow ≪ 100 km s–1) outflow with a large opening angle, and the central stellar system is contained within the inner maser region (∼20 au) during a possible common-envelope evolution.

Abstract Copyright: © 2025. The Author(s). Published by the American Astronomical Society.

Journal keyword(s): Circumstellar masers - Stellar jets - Stellar mass loss - Common envelope evolution

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