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Vlbi Water Maser Proper Motion Measurements in Star-Forming Regions

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We review some of the recent water maser proper motion measurements in star-forming regions performed through VLBI multi-epoch observations. These observations are starting to reveal exciting perspectives, providing the full kinematics of the gas within the outflows/circumstellar disks around YSOs at scales of AUs, discovering new phenomena (e.g., isotropic mass ejections, water maser “micro-structures” exhibiting remarkable coherent and well ordered spatio-kinematical behavior at AU scale), and opening new, puzzling questions related to the early stellar evolution.

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  1. Instituto de Ciencias del Espacio (CSIC)-IEEC, C/ Gran Capità 2-4, Barcelona, Spain

    J. M. Torrelles

  2. Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, 60 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA, USA

    N. Patel

  3. Laboratorio de Astrofísica Espacial y Física Fundamental (INTA), Apartado de Correos 50727, Madrid, Spain

    J. F. Gómez

  4. Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía (CSIC), Apartado de Correos 3004, Granada, Spain

    G. Anglada

  5. Instituto de Astronomía (UNAM), Cd. Universitaria, Apdo Postal 70-264, Mexico DF, Mexico

    L. Uscanga

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Torrelles, J.M., Patel, N., Gómez, J.F. et al. Vlbi Water Maser Proper Motion Measurements in Star-Forming Regions. Astrophys Space Sci 295, 53–63 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10509-005-3659-0

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