SANTIAGO GIL
| Submillimeter water masers: new possibilities to study Brown Dwarf formation. |
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| Water is one of the most common molecules found in the universe, and one of the few capable of producing maser emission in star-forming regions of all masses. Most water maser detections have been found in high-mass young stellar objects, however, with the improvement on technology and the advent of newer and better radio telescopes such as ALMA and APEX, we now have the possibility of detecting fainter and weaker water maser detections, such as those found in the low-mass regime of star forming regions. Moreover, the water molecule has several maser transitions in the submillimeter regime, most of which have been generally unexplored, and could be the key to studying formation mechanisms at the very low-mass regime. In this talk, we explore and discuss the capabilities of water maser emission as a tool to connect mass-loss phenomena in star-forming regions to the formation mechanisms of Brown Dwarfs. |