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astro-ph.GA2022★ 6 cited

EAVN Astrometry toward the Extreme Outer Galaxy: Kinematic distance with the proper motion of G034.84-00.95

Nobuyuki Sakai, Bo Zhang, Shuangjing Xu +22

We aim to reveal the structure and kinematics of the Outer-Scutum-Centaurus (OSC) arm located on the far side of the Milky Way through very long baseline interferometry (VLBI) astr…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 95 cited

The First VERA Astrometry Catalog

VERA collaboration, Tomoya Hirota, Takumi Nagayama +59

We present the first astrometry catalog from the Japanese VLBI (very long baseline interferometer) project VERA (VLBI Exploration of Radio Astrometry). We have compiled all the ast…

astro-ph.GA2019★ 13 cited

Vertical Structure and Kinematics of the Galactic Outer Disk

Nobuyuki Sakai, Takumi Nagayama, Hiroyuki Nakanishi +7

We report measurements of parallax and proper motion for four 22 GHz water maser sources as part of VERA Outer Rotation Curve project. All sources show Galactic latitudes of 2$…

astro-ph.GA2019★ 5 cited

Outer rotation curve of the Galaxy with VERA IV: Astrometry of IRAS 01123+6430 and the possibility of cloud-cloud collision

Nagito Koide, Hiroyuki Nakanishi, Nobuyuki Sakai +13

As part our investigation into the Galactic rotation curve, we carried out Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI) observations towards the star-forming region IRAS 01123+6430 usi…

astro-ph.GA2015

Outer Rotation Curve of the Galaxy with VERA III: Astrometry of IRAS 07427-2400 and Test of the Density-Wave Theory

Nobuyuki Sakai, Hiroyuki Nakanishi, Mitsuhiro Matsuo +6

We report the trigonometric parallax of IRAS 07427-2400 with VERA to be 0.185 0.027 mas, corresponding to a distance of 5.41 kpc. The result is consistent w…

astro-ph.GA2015★ 15 cited

Outer Rotation Curve of the Galaxy with VERA II: Annual Parallax and Proper Motion of the Star-Forming Region IRAS21379+5106

Hiroyuki Nakanishi, Nobuyuki Sakai, Tomoharu Kurayama +7

We conducted astrometric VLBI observations of water-vapor maser emission in the massive star forming region IRAS 21379+5106 to measure the annual parallax and proper motion, using…

astro-ph.GA2014★ 28 cited

The First Very Long Baseline Interferometry Image of 44 GHz Methanol Maser with the KVN and VERA Array (KaVA)

Naoko Matsumoto, Tomoya Hirota, Koichiro Sugiyama +58

We have carried out the first very long baseline interferometry (VLBI) imaging of 44 GHz class I methanol maser (7_{0}-6_{1}A^{+}) associated with a millimeter core MM2 in a massiv…

astro-ph.GA2013★ 19 cited

Evolution of the Water Maser Expanding Shell in W75N VLA 2

Jeong-Sook Kim, Soon-Wook Kim, Tomoharu Kurayama +6

We present Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI) observations of 22 GHz HO masers in the high-mass star-forming region of \objectname{W75N}, carried out with VLBI Exploratio…

astro-ph.GA2012

The outer rotation curve project with VERA: Trigonometric parallax of IRAS 05168+3634

Nobuyuki Sakai, Mareki Honma, Hiroyuki Nakanishi +3

We present a measurement of the trigonometric parallax of IRAS 05168+3634 with VERA. The parallax is 0.532 +/- 0.053 mas, corresponding to a distance of 1.88 +0.21/-0.17 kpc. This…

astro-ph.GA2012★ 176 cited

Fundamental Parameters of the Milky Way Galaxy Based on VLBI astrometry

Mareki Honma, Takumi Nagayama, Kazuma Ando +31

We present analyses to determine the fundamental parameters of the Galaxy based on VLBI astrometry of 52 Galactic maser sources obtained with VERA, VLBA and EVN. We model the Galax…