- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/615/A9
- Title:
- Distribution of Serpens South protostars
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/615/A9
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Clusters are common sites of star formation, whose members display varying degrees of mass segregation. The cause may be primordial or dynamical, or a combination both. If mass segregation were to be observed in a very young protostellar cluster, then the primordial case can be assumed more likely for that region. We investigated the masses and spatial distributions of pre-stellar and protostellar candidates in the young, low-mass star forming region Serpens South, where active star formation is known to occur along a predominant filamentary structure. Previous observations used to study these distributions have been limited by two important observational factors: (1) sensitivity limits that leave the lowest-mass sources undetected, or (2) resolution limits that cannot distinguish binaries and/or cluster members in close proximity. Recent millimeter-wavelength interferometry observations can now uncover faint and/or compact sources in order to study a more complete population of protostars, especially in nearby (D<500pc) clusters. Here we present ALMA observations of 1mm (Band 6) continuum in a 3x2-arcminutes region at the center of Serpens South. Our angular resolution of 1-arcsec is equivalent to 400 au, corresponding to scales of envelopes and/or disks of protostellar sources. We detect 52 sources with 1mm continuum, and we measure masses of 0.002-0.9 solar masses corresponding to gas and dust in the disk and/or envelope of the protostellar system. For the deeply embedded (youngest) sources with no IR counterparts, we find evidence of mass segregation and clustering according to: the Minimum Spanning Tree method, distribution of projected separations between unique sources, and concentration of higher-mass sources near to the dense gas at the cluster center. The mass segregation of the mm sources is likely primordial rather than dynamical given the young age of this cluster, compared with segregation time. This is the first case to show this for mm sources in a low-mass protostellar cluster environment.
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- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/620/A30
- Title:
- 12 embedded protostellar systems APEX spectra
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/620/A30
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Simulations suggest that gas heating due to radiative feedback is a key factor in whether or not multiple protostellar systems will form. Chemistry is a good tracer of the physical structure of a protostellar system, since it depends on the temperature structure. We aim to study the relationship between envelope gas temperature and protostellar multiplicity. Single dish observations of various molecules that trace the cold, warm and UV-irradiated gas are used to probe the temperature structure of multiple and single protostellar systems on 7000 AU scales. Single, close binary, and wide multiples present similar current envelope gas temperatures, as estimated from H_2_CO and DCO^+^ line ratios. The temperature of the outflow cavity, traced by c-C_3_H_2_, on the other hand, shows a relation with bolometric luminosity and an anticorrelation with envelope mass. Although the envelope gas temperatures are similar for all objects surveyed, wide multiples tend to exhibit a more massive reservoir of cold gas compared to close binary and single protostars. Although the sample of protostellar systems is small, the results suggest that gas temperature may not have a strong impact on fragmentation. We propose that mass, and density, may instead be key factors in fragmentation.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/549/A67
- Title:
- Embedded YSOs in Carina Nebula complex
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/549/A67
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The Carina Nebula represents one of the largest and most active star forming regions known in our Galaxy. It contains numerous very massive (M>~40M_{sun}) stars that strongly act the surrounding clouds by their ionizing radiation and stellar winds. Our recently obtained Herschel PACS & SPIRE far-infrared maps cover the full area (~~8.7{deg}^2^) of the Carina Nebula complex and reveal the population of deeply embedded young stellar objects, most of which are not yet visible in the mid- or near-infrared. We study the properties of the 642 objects that are independently detected as point-like sources in at least two of the five Herschel bands. For those objects that can be identified with apparently single Spitzer counterparts, we use radiative transfer models to derive information about the basic stellar and circumstellar parameters.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/631/A30
- Title:
- Emission line flux densities for 12 YSOs
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/631/A30
- Date:
- 28 Oct 2021 07:35:47
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Episodic accretion plays an important role in the evolution of young stars. Although it has been under investigation for a long time, the origin of such episodic accretion events is not yet understood. We investigate the dust and gas emission of a sample of young outbursting sources in the infrared to get a better understanding of their properties and circumstellar material, and we use the results in a further work to model the objects. We used Herschel data, from our PI program of 12 objects and complemented with archival observations to obtain the spectral energy distributions (SEDs) and spectra of our targets. We report here the main characteristics of our sample, focussing on the SED properties and on the gas emission lines detected in the PACS and SPIRE spectra. The SEDs of our sample show the diversity of the outbursting sources, with several targets showing strong emission in the far-infrared from the embedded objects. Most of our targets reside in a complex environment, which we discuss in detail. We detected several atomic and molecular lines, in particular rotational CO emission from several transitions from J=38-37 to J=4-3. We constructed rotational diagrams for the CO lines, and derived in three domains of assumed local thermodynamic equilibrium (LTE) temperatures and column densities, ranging mainly between 0-100K and 400-500K. We confirm correlation in our sample between intense CO J=16-15 emission and the column density of the warm domain of CO, N(warm). We notice a strong increase in luminosity of HH 381 IRS and a weaker increase for PP 13 S, which shows the beginning of an outburst.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/632/A101
- Title:
- Extremely high-velocity jets in Serpens
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/632/A101
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- ALMA observations of four molecular transitions, CO 2-1, SiO 5-4, H_2_CO 3_03_-2_02_ in Band 6 (ALMA project 2013.1.00726.S; PI: C. Hull) and HCN 1-0 observed in Band 3 (ALMA project 2016.1.00710.S; PI: C. Hull) are presented. The synthesized beam of the observations is between 0.3 and 0.6 arcsec, corresponding to 130-260au at the distance to Serpens Main. The largest recoverable scale in the data is 5 arcsec and 12 arcsec (2150 and 4960au) for Band 3 and Band 6, respectively. The spectral resolution of the observations differs between the spectral windows, ranging from 0.04 to 0.3km/s. For both bands, only 12-m array data were used. The Band 6 data were obtained in two configurations (C43-1 and C43-4 with resolutions of 1.1 and 0.3 arcsec, respectively, and the final images are produced from the combined datasets.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/593/A49
- Title:
- G35.20-0.74N VLA continuum images
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/593/A49
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) observations of the high-mass star-forming region G35.20-0.74N have revealed the presence of a Keplerian disk in core B rotating about a massive object of 18M_{sun}_, as computed from the velocity field. The luminosity of such a massive star would be comparable to (or higher than) the luminosity of the whole star-forming region. To solve this problem it has been proposed that core B could harbor a binary system. This could also explain the possible precession of the radio jet associated with this core, which has been suggested by its S-shaped morphology. We establish the origin of the free-free emission from core B and investigate the existence of a binary system at the center of this massive core and the possible precession of the radio jet. We carried out VLA continuum observations of G35.20-0.74N at 2cm in the B configuration and at 1.3cm and 7mm in the A and B configurations. The bandwidth at 7mm covers the CH3OH maser line at 44.069GHz. Continuum images at 6 and 3.6cm in the A configuration were obtained from the VLA archive. We also carried out VERA observations of the H_2_O maser line at 22.235GHz.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/617/A31
- Title:
- HCO+, CN, and 13CO maps of R Mon
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/617/A31
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- To our knowledge, R Mon is the only B0 star in which a gaseous Keplerian disk has been detected. However, there is some controversy about the spectral type of R Mon. Some authors propose that it could be a later B8e star, where disks are more common. Our goal is to re-evaluate the R Mon spectral type and characterize its protoplanetary disk. The spectral type of R Mon has been re-evaluated using the available continuum data and UVES emission lines. We used a power-law disk model to fit previous ^12^CO 1-0 and 2-1 interferometric observations and the PACS CO data to investigate the disk structure. Interferometric detections of ^13^CO J=1-0, HCO^+^ 1-0, and CN 1-0 lines using the IRAM Plateau de Bure Interferometer (PdBI) are presented. The HCN 1-0 line was not detected. Our analysis confirms that R Mon is a B0 star. The disk model compatible with the ^12^CO 1-0 and 2-1 interferometric observations falls short of predicting the observed fluxes of the 14<Ju<31 PACS lines; this is consistent with the scenario in which some contribution to these lines is coming from a warm envelope and/or UV-illuminated outflow walls. More interestingly, the upper limits to the fluxes of the Ju>31 CO lines suggest the existence of a region empty of CO at R<=20au in the proto-planetary disk. The intense emission of the HCO^+^ and CN lines shows the strong influence of UV photons on gas chemistry. The observations gathered in this paper are consistent with the presence of a transition disk with a cavity of Rin>=20 au around R Mon. This size is similar to the photoevaporation radius that supports the interpretation that UV photoevaporation is main disk dispersal mechanism in massive stars
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/605/A21
- Title:
- H_2_CO production in HD 163296
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/605/A21
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We analyze the radial distribution of H_2_CO and C^18^O in the protoplanetary disk around HD 163296, a Herbig Ae type protostar, with the aim of determining possible formation scenarios of H_2_CO. By comparing the two molecules and the millimeter continuum, we investigate the relationship between the presence of H_2_CO and CO depletion in the disk.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/547/A49
- Title:
- Herschel EPoS: high-mass overview
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/547/A49
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Stars are born deeply embedded in molecular clouds. In the earliest embedded phases, protostars emit the bulk of their radiation in the far-infrared wavelength range, where Herschel is perfectly suited to probe at high angular resolution and dynamic range. In the high-mass regime, the birthplaces of protostars are thought to be in the high-density structures known as infrared-dark clouds (IRDCs). While massive IRDCs are believed to have the right conditions to give rise to massive stars and clusters, the evolutionary sequence of this process is not well-characterized. As part of the Earliest Phases of Star formation (EPoS) Herschel guaranteed time key program, we isolate the embedded structures within IRDCs and other cold, massive molecular clouds. We present the full sample of 45 high-mass regions which were mapped at PACS 70, 100, and 160um and SPIRE 250, 350, and 500um. In the present paper, we characterize a population of cores which appear in the PACS bands and place them into context with their host molecular cloud and investigate their evolutionary stage.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/632/A19
- Title:
- IRAM intensity maps of 3 low-mass protostars
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/632/A19
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Methanol is a key species in astrochemistry since it is the most abundant organic molecule in the interstellar medium and is thought to be the mother molecule of many complex organic species. Estimating the deuteration of methanol around young protostars is of crucial importance because it highly depends on its formation mechanisms and the physical conditions during its moment of formation. We analyse several dozens of transitions from deuterated methanol isotopologues coming from various existing observational datasets obtained with the IRAM-PdBI and ALMA sub-mm interferometers to estimate the methanol deuteration surrounding three low-mass protostars on Solar System scales. A population diagram analysis allows us to derive a [CH_2_DOH]/[CH_3_OH] abundance ratio of 3-6% and a [CH_3_OD]/[CH_3_OH] ratio of 0.4-1.6% in the warm inner (<100-200AU) protostellar regions. These values are typically ten times lower than those derived with previous single-dish observations towards these sources but they are one to two orders of magnitude higher than the methanol deuteration measured in massive hot cores. Dust temperature maps obtained from Herschel and Planck observations show that massive hot cores are located in warmer molecular clouds than low-mass sources, with temperature differences of about 10K. The comparison of our measured values with the predictions of the gas-grain astrochemical model GRAINOBLE shows that such a temperature difference is sufficient to explain the different deuteration observed in low- to high-mass sources. This suggests that the physical conditions of the molecular cloud at the origin of the protostars mostly govern the present observed deuteration of methanol and, therefore, of more complex organic molecules. Finally, the methanol deuteration measured towards young solar-type protostars on Solar System scales seems to be higher by a factor of about 5 than the upper limit in methanol deuteration estimated in comet Hale-Bopp. If this result is confirmed by subsequent observations of other comets, this would imply that an important reprocessing of the organic material likely occurred in the solar nebula during the formation of the Solar System.
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