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 +Massive Star Forming Regions and Magnetic Fields
 +
 +Gabriele Surcis, Huib Jan van Langevelde, and Ciriaco Goddi together with colleagues from Sweden, Spain, Mexico, 
 +and South Korea observed the polarized emission of 22 GHz water masers around the massive young stellar objects (YSOs) 
 +W75N-VLA2 and W75N-VLA1. The two massive YSOs are separated by just 1300 astronomical units and are at two 
 +different evolutionary stages, i.e., VLA1 is the most evolved and VLA2 the least evolved. The interferometric 
 +observations showed at 1~au scale that while the water masers distribution and the magnetic field around VLA1 have 
 +not changed since 2005, the shell structure of the masers around VLA2 is still expanding and increasing its 
 +ellipticity. Furthermore, the magnetic field around VLA2 has changed its orientation according to the new 
 +direction of the major-axis of the shell-like structure and it is now aligned with the magnetic field in VLA1.
 +This confirm that the water masers around VLA2 are tracing the evolution from a non-collimated to a collimated
 +outflow.
 +
 +Gabriele Surcis and Huib Jan van Langevelde together with Wouter Vlemmings (Chalmers University of Technology), 
 +Busaba Hutawarakorn Kramer (MPIfR), and Anna Bartkiewicz (Nicolaus Copernicus University) 
 +continued their work on measuring magnetic fields morphology close to massive YSOs (au scale) by using 6.7 GHz 
 +methanol masers. The group measured the magnetic field morphology towards eight new massive YSOs. These sources 
 +are part of a large sample of massive YSOs, the so-called flux-limited sample, that is composed of 31 sources.
 +A preliminary statistical analysis of the results obtained from the first 19 sources reveals evidences that the
 +magnetic fields around massive YSOs are preferentially oriented along the molecular outflow.
 +Furthermore, the group together with Luca Moscadelli (Osservatorio Astronomico di Arcetri) have determined the
 +morphology of the magnetic field at au scale around the massive YSO IRAS20126+4104 by observing the polarized 
 +emission of the 22 GHz water masers and the 6.7 GHz methanol masers. The orientation of the magnetic field 
 +derived from the masers agrees with the S-shaped morphology on larger scale by using the dust-polarized emission 
 +at 350~\mu~m.
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 +Figures captures.
 +
 +figure_1a.eps, figure_1b.eps: A close-up view of the 22 GHz water masers detected around the VLA1 (left panel) 
 +and VLA2 (right panel). The reference position is $\alpha_{2000}=20^{\rm{h}}38^{\rm{m}}36^{\rm{s}}\!.435$ and 
 +$\delta_{2000}=42^{\circ}37'34''\!\!.84$. The octagonal symbols are the identified masers scaled logarithmically 
 +according to their peak flux density. The linear polarization vectors, scaled logarithmically according to 
 +polarization fraction, are overplotted. In the bottom-right corner of both panels the error-weighted orientation 
 +of the magnetic field ($\Phi_{\rm{B}}$) is also reported; the two dashed segments indicate the uncertainties. The 
 +ellipse drawn in the right panel is the result of the best fit of the water masers. The estimated values of the 
 +magnetic field strength are also shown in both panels next to the corresponding water maser.
 +
 +figure_2a.eps, figure_2b.eps: Left panel: The black bars represent the magnetic field direction determined from 
 +the polarized dust emission at 350~$\mu$m, whose continuum emission is in the background. The white box indicates 
 +the position of the right panel.
 +Right panel: methanol (triangles), OH (squares), and water (octagons) masers in IRAS20126+4104. The gold asterisk
 + represents the B0.5 protostar ($\alpha_{2000}=20^{\rm{h}}14^{\rm{m}}26^{\rm{s}}\!.0498$ and 
 +$\delta_{2000}=41^{\circ}13'32''\!\!.443$, MCR11), while the dotted line represents the Keplerian disk of 
 +$\sim$1000~au ($\rm{PA_{disk}}=53^{\circ}\pm7$\d. The red and blue lines indicate the red- and blue-shifted lobes 
 +of the jet, respectively. The thick green segments represent the magnetic field direction determined from the 
 +polarized methanol and water maser emissions. The green dashed segments represent the magnetic field direction
 +determined from the linearly polarized emission of OH masers (Edris et al. 2005, A&A, 434, 213). 
 +
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