High‐Resolution Mid‐Infrared Imaging of G339.88−1.26

G339.88-1.26 is considered to be a good candidate for a massive star with acircumstellar disk. This has been supported by the observations of linearlydistributed methanol maser spots believed to delineate this disk, andmid-infrared observations that have discovered a source at this location thatis elongated at the same position angle as the methanol maser distribution. Weused the mid-infrared imager/spectrometer OSCIR at Keck to make high-resolutionimages of G339.88-1.26. We resolve the mid-infrared emission into 3 sourceswithin 1.5 arcsec of the location of the masers. We determine that the methanolmasers are most likely not located in a circumstellar disk. Furthermore we findthat the observed radio continuum emission most likely comes from two sourcesin close proximity to each other. One source is an unobscured massive star withan extended HII region that is responsible for the peak in the radio continuumemission. A second source is embedded and centered on the elongation in theradio continuum emission that is believed to be tracing an outflow in thisregion.Comment: 12 pages, 2 figures, Accepted for publication in Ap