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Towards continuous viewing of circumstellar maser sources over decades

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 July 2018

Hiroshi Imai*
Affiliation:
Science and Engineering Area of the Research and Education Assembly, Kagoshima University, 1-21-35 Korimoto, Kagoshima 890-0065, Japan Allround Galactic Astronomy Research Center, Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Kagoshima University, 1-21-35 Korimoto, Kagoshima 890-0065, Japan email: hiroimai@sci.kagoshima-u.ac.jp
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The brightness of maser features are fascinating and give valuable insight for circumstellar physics of oxygen-rich, intermediate-mass stars, in particular the final evolution of circumstellar envelopes (CSEs). The variety of accompanying masers such as SiO, H2O, and OH in the CSEs may provide unique probes into different stages of rapid CSE evolution. However, with only sparse monitoring of these masers one can sometimes find it difficult to accurately interpret their spatio-kinematics, origins and excitation mechanisms. Examples can be seen in the variety of proposed models for water masers associated with “water fountains” and for silicon-monoxide masers. In order to better understand these issues, one needs to consider continuous monitoring of the individual maser gas clumps over a few stellar cycles or episodic ejection events. Here I present our previous long-term monitoring observations, especially for the water fountain source W43A. Our current efforts involve programs of intensive monitoring observations of circumstellar maser sources over decadal time periods. These programs with the East Asia VLBI Network observe H2O and SiO maser lines simultaneously mapped at high cadence (2–8 weeks) with VLBI observations.

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