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Water masers in bowshocks: Addressing the radiation pressure problem of massive star formation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 July 2018

Ross A. Burns
Ross A. Burns*
Affiliation:
Joint Institute for VLBI ERIC (JIVE), Postbus 2, 7990 AA, Dwingeloo, The Netherlands email: burns@jive.nl
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Abstract

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Ejection activities in S255IR-SMA1 and AFGL 5142 were investigated by multi-epoch VLBI observations of 22 GHz water masers, tracing bowshocks leading collimated jets. The history of ejections, revealed by the 3D maser motions and supplemented by the literature, suggests that these massive stars formed by episodic accretion, inferred via the accretion-ejection connection. This contribution centers on the role of episodic accretion in overcoming the radiation pressure problem of massive star formation - with maser VLBI and single-dish observations providing essential observational tools.

Keywords

MasersStars: formationISM: jets and outflowsetc.

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