Discovery of H2O maser emission from the red supergiant IRAS04553-6825 in the Large Magellanic Cloud

Jacco Th. van Loon, Peter te Lintel Hekkert, Valentin Bujarrabal +2

We report the detection of 22 GHz H2O maser emission from the red supergiant IRAS04553-6825 in the Large Magellanic Cloud. It is the first known source of circumstellar H2O maser e…