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使用VLBA通过H2O脉泽视差实现与IRAS 00420+5530的精确距离

A Precise Distance to IRAS 00420+5530 via H2O Maser Parallax with the VLBA

G. A. Moellenbrock, M. J. Claussen, W. M. Goss

摘要:

我们用VLBA测量了恒星形成区IRAS 00420+5530中H2O脉泽的年视差。这一测量得到的直接距离估计值为2.17 +/- 0.05 kpc(<3%),这与标准的运动学距离估计值~4.6 kpc(根据Brand和Blitz 1993年的旋转曲线)以及文献中各种天体物理学分析中使用的大多数广泛距离(1.7-7.7 kpc)基本不一致。在这个新的、更准确的距离上,IRAS 00420+5530的三维空间速度意味着一个实质上非圆形且异常缓慢的银河轨道,与W3(OH)的类似观测结果一致(Xu等人,2006; Hachisuka等人,2006),以及Brand和Blitz(1993)旋转曲线分析中的视线速度残差。因此,银河系的英仙座旋臂比先前推测的要近两倍以上,并且其运动与旋转银河系的轴对称模型基本上不一致。

英文摘要:

We have used the VLBA to measure the annual parallax of the H2O masers in the star-forming region IRAS 00420+5530. This measurement yields a direct distance estimate of 2.17 +/- 0.05 kpc (<3%), which disagrees substantially with the standard kinematic distance estimate of ~4.6 kpc (according to the rotation curve of Brand and Blitz 1993), as well as most of the broad range of distances (1.7-7.7 kpc) used in various astrophysical analyses in the literature. The 3-dimensional space velocity of IRAS 00420+5530 at this new, more accurate distance implies a substantial non-circular and anomalously slow Galactic orbit, consistent with similar observations of W3(OH) (Xu et al., 2006; Hachisuka et al. 2006), as well as line-of-sight velocity residuals in the rotation curve analysis of Brand and Blitz (1993). The Perseus spiral arm of the Galaxy is thus more than a factor of two closer than previously presumed, and exhibits motions substantially at odds with axisymmetric models of the rotating Galaxy.

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