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Fig. 18

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Overlay of molecular masers detected around W51e8 onto the total intensity (0th moment) map of the (6, 6) inversion transition of NH3 (gray scale and white+black contours). The circles show positions and the arrows indicate proper motions of OH masers (Fish & Reid 2007) (top panel), and H2O masers (Sato et al. 2010) (bottom panel), respectively, both measured with the VLBA. Colors denote l.o.s. velocity (color scale on the right-hand side in each panel) and the scale for the proper motion amplitude is given in the bottom right corner of each panel (both in km s-1). The NH3 emission is shown with white contours, representing 20% to 100% with steps of 20% of the line peak for the (6, 6) line, 107 mJy beam-1 km s-1. The red contour indicates the 3 mJy flux level per beam (corresponding to ~4σ where σ ~ 0.7 mJy beam-1) for the 25 GHz continuum emission. Besides W51e1 to the SW, a peak of the radio continuum falls at the peak of the total intensity map of the most highly excited NH3 transitions (13, 13), which are indicated with cyan contours. We assume that its position pinpoints a high-mass YSO at the center of W51e8, driving both a fast H2O maser outflow and a more slowly expanding OH maser shell.

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