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557 GHz Observations of Water Vapor Outflows from VY CMa and W Hydrae | Martin Harwit
; Edwin A. Bergin
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26 Dec 2001 | Subject: | astro-ph | Abstract: | We report the first detection of thermal water vapor emission in the 557 GHz, $1_{10} - 1_{01}$ ground state transition of ortho-H$_2$O toward VY Canis Majoris. In observations obtained with the Submillimeter Wave Astronomy Satellite (SWAS), we measured a flux of $sim 450 $Jy, in a spectrally resolved line centered on a velocity $v_{LSR} = 25 $km s$^{-1}$ with a full width half maximum of $sim 35$ km s$^{-1}$, somewhat dependent on the assumed line shape. We analyze the line shape in the context of three different radial outflow models for which we provide analytical expressions. We also detected a weaker 557 GHz emission line from W Hydrae. We find that these and other H$_2$O emission line strengths scale as suggested by Zubko and Elitzur (2000). | Source: | arXiv, astro-ph/0112546 | Services: | Forum | Review | PDF | Favorites |
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