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The infrared environments of masers associated with star formation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 March 2007

James De Buizer
James De Buizer*
Affiliation:
Gemini Observatory, Casilla 603, La Serena, Chile email: jdebuizer@gemini.edu
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The near infrared (1–2μm) and the thermal infrared (3–25μm) trace many of the environments in which masers are thought to reside, including shocks, outflows, accretion disks, and the dense medium near protostars. After a number of recent surveys it has been found that there is a higher detection rate of mid-IR emission towards masers than cm radio continuum emission from UC HII regions, and that the mid-IR emission is actually more closely cospatial to the maser locations. A high percentage of water and methanol masers that are not coincident with the UC HII regions in massive star forming regions are likely to be tracing outflows and extremely young high mass stars before the onset of the UC HII region phase. After a decade of groundwork supporting the hypothesis that linearly distributed class II methanol masers may generally trace accretion disks around young massive stars, compelling evidence is mounting that these masers may generally be associated with outflows instead. Substantiation of this claim comes from recent outflow surveys and high angular resolution mid-IR imaging of the maser environments.

Keywords

masersaccretiondisksISM: jets and outflowsstars: formationstars: early-typeinfrared: ISM
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Contributed Papers
Information
Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union , Volume 3 , Symposium S242: Astrophysical Masers and their Environments , March 2007 , pp. 102 - 109
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Copyright © International Astronomical Union 2008

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