* Astronomy

Title: A new spectroscopic and interferometric study of the young stellar object V645 Cyg
Authors: A. S. Miroshnichenko, K.-H. Hofmann, D. Schertl, G. Weigelt, S. Kraus, N. Manset, L. Albert, Y. Y. Balega, V. G. Klochkova, R. J. Rudy, D. K. Lynch, S. Mazuk, C. C. Venturini, R. W. Russell, K. N. Grankin, R. C. Puetter, R. B. Perry

We present the results of high-resolution optical spectroscopy, low-resolution near-IR spectroscopy and near-infrared speckle interferometry of the massive young stellar object candidate V645 Cyg, acquired to refine its fundamental parameters and the properties of its circumstellar envelope. Speckle interferometry in the H- and K-bands and an optical spectrum in the range 5200--6680 \AA with a spectral resolving power of R = 60 000 were obtained at the 6-m telescope of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Another optical spectrum in the range 4300--10500 \AA with R = 79 000 was obtained at the 3.6-m CFHT. Low-resolution spectra in the ranges 0.46--1.4 µ m and 1.4--2.5 µ m with R ~800 and ~ 700, respectively, were obtained at the 3-m Shane telescope of the Lick Observatory. Using a novel kinematical method based on the non-linear modelling of the neutral hydrogen density profile in the direction toward the object, we propose a distance of D = 4.2 ±0.2 kpc. We also suggest a revised estimate of the star's effective temperature,  T_{eff} ~25 000 K. We resolved the object in both H- and K-bands. We conclude that V645 Cyg is a young, massive, main-sequence star, which recently emerged from its cocoon and has already experienced its protostellar accretion stage. The presence of accretion is not necessary to account for the high observed luminosity of (2--6) x 10^4 Solar masses yr^{-1}. The receding part of a strong, mostly uniform outflow with a terminal velocity of ~800 km s^{-1} is only blocked from view far from the star, where forbidden lines form.

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