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ALMA-QUARKS View of W49N: Multipolar Episodic Outflow Associated with the Most Energetic Galactic Water Maser

  • Authors: Yunfan Jiao, Tie Liu, Wenyu Jiao, Fengwei Xu, Qilao Gu, Xindi Tang, Xiaofeng Mai, Qiuyi Luo, Siju Zhang, Paul F. Goldsmith, Chang Won Lee, Guido Garay, Yuhan Yang, Prasanta Gorai, Manuel Merello, Pablo García, Sami Dib, Jihye Hwang, Ariful Hoque, Mika Juvela, Yankun Zhang, Patricio Sanhueza, Jixiang Weng, Kee-Tae Kim, Swagat R. Das, Archana Soam, Tapas Baug, Jianjun Zhou, Leonardo Bronfman, Aiyuan Yang, Lei Zhu

Yunfan Jiao et al 2026 The Astronomical Journal 172 .

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Caption: Figure 5.

Panel (a): a zoom-in view of the high-resolution 1.3 mm continuum emission from the ALMA archival data surrounding the sources G2a, G2b, and G2c, corresponding to the region marked by the dashed black box in the right panel. The thick black contours with labels outline the core boundaries identified by the astrodendro algorithm. The white contours represent the continuum emission levels at [5, 10, 15, 20, 30, 50, 80, 120, 180, 250] times the continuum rms noise (5.3 × 10−4 Jy beam−1). Panel (b): water maser spotmap (data from B. Zhang et al. 2013) overlaid on moment 0 contours of extremely high-velocity bipolar outflow. The background is the high-resolution 1.3 mm continuum map on the center of W49N. The pink crosses represent 7 mm continuum objects observed in C. G. De Pree et al. (2020). Blue and red contours represent outflows with channel velocities of [-140,-80] and [80,170] km s−1 (consistent with the color maps in Figures 1(d) and 2(d)), and the contour levels are [15,25,35,45,55,65,77,90,105] times the rms noises for redshifted and blueshifted moment-0 map, respectively. The spot sizes show the intensity of water maser emission and colors represent LOS relative velocity.

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