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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 03 August 2017
We present VLBI and BIMA observations of the Class II methanol maser source G 59.783+0.065. The methanol emission arises from the centre of a compact molecular core, supporting the view that methanol masers trace an early stage of massive star formation. The velocity spread of the masers is significantly larger than that of the parent molecular cloud, which is consistent with the methanol coming from a rotating structure within the molecular core. However, there is also weak evidence that the methanol is aligned with an outflow.