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Stellar molecular jets traced by maser emission

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 March 2007

Hiroshi Imai
Hiroshi Imai*
Affiliation:
Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, Kagoshima University, Japan email: hiroimai@sci.kagoshima-u.ac.jp
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Abstract

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Highly collimated jets found in AGB and post-AGB stars are expected to play an important role for shaping planetary nebulae. Recent VLBI observations of H2o maser sources have revealed that some of the spatio-kinematical structures of H2o maser sources exhibit stellar jets with extremely spatially and kinematically high collimation. Such stellar H2o maser jets, so-called “water fountains”, have been identified in about 10 sources to date. Here we review recent VLBI observations and relevant observational results of the water fountain sources. They have revealed a typical dynamical age and the detailed kinematical structures of the water fountains, the possibility of the existence of “equatorial flows”, and the evolutionary status of the host stars. The location and kinematics of one of the water fountain sources in the Galaxy is also revealed and shown here.

Keywords

masersstars:AGB and post-AGBmass losswindsoutflows
Type
Contributed Papers
Information
Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union , Volume 3 , Symposium S242: Astrophysical Masers and their Environments , March 2007 , pp. 279 - 286
Copyright
Copyright © International Astronomical Union 2008

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