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11. The Bok globule CB 26
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/646/A18
Title:
The Bok globule CB 26
Short Name:
J/A+A/646/A18
Date:
23 Mar 2022 16:32:20
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
Planetary cores are thought to form in proto-planetary disks via the growth of dusty solid material. However, it is unclear how early this process begins. We study the physical structure and grain growth in the edge-on disk that surrounds the ~1Myr old low-mass (~0.55M_{sun}_) protostar embedded in the Bok Globule CB26 to examine how much grain growth has already occurred in the protostellar phase. We combine the SED between 0.9um and 6.4cm with high angular resolution continuum maps at 1.3, 2.9, and 8.1mm, and use the radiative transfer code RADMC-3D to conduct a detailed modelling of the dust emission from the disk and envelope of CB 26. We infer inner and outer disk radii of around 16au and 172+/-22au, respectively. The total gas mass in the disk is ~0.076M_{sun}_, which amounts to ~14% of the mass of the central star. The inner disk contains a compact free-free emission region, which could be related to either a jet or a photoevaporation region. The thermal dust emission from the outer disk is optically thin at mm wavelengths, while the emission from the inner disk midplane is moderately optically thick. Our best-fit radiative transfer models indicate that the dust grains in the disk have already grown to pebbles with diameters of the order of 10cm in size. Residual 8.1mm emission suggests the presence of even larger particles in the inner disk. For the optically thin mm dust emission from the outer disk, we derive a mean opacity slope of {beta}_mm_~=0.7+/-0.4, which is consistent with the presence of large dust grains. The presence of cm-sized bodies in the CB 26 disk indicates that solids grow rapidly already during the first million years in a protostellar disk. It is thus possible that Class II disks are already seeded with large particles and may contain even planetesimals.
12. UBVRI images of Barnard 207
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/605/A99
Title:
UBVRI images of Barnard 207
Short Name:
J/A+A/605/A99
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
Barnard 207 (B207, LDN 1489, LBN 777), also known as the Vulture Head nebula, is a cometary globule in the Taurus-Auriga-Perseus Molecular Cloud region. B207 is known to host a Class I protostar, IRAS 04016+2610, located at a projected distance of ~8400au from the dense core centre. Using imaging and photometry over a wide wavelength range, from UV to sub-mm, we study the physical properties of B207 and the dust grains contained within. The core density, temperature, and mass are typical of other globules found in the Milky Way interstellar medium (ISM). The increase in the dust albedo with increasing optical wavelengths, along with the detection of coreshine in the near infrared, indicates the presence of larger dust grains in B207. The measured optical, near-, mid- and far-infrared intensities are in agreement with the CMM+AMM and CMM+AMMI dust grain type of the THEMIS model, suggesting mantle formation on the dust grains throughout the globule. We investigate the possibility of turbulence being responsible for diffusing dust grains from the central core to external outer layers of B207. However, in situ formation of large dust grains cannot be excluded.
13. X-ray observations of CG 12
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/673/331
Title:
X-ray observations of CG 12
Short Name:
J/ApJ/673/331
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
The mysterious high Galactic latitude cometary globule CG 12 has been observed with the ACIS detector on board the Chandra X-Ray Observatory. We detect 128 X-ray sources, of which half are likely young stars formed within the globule's head. This new population of >~50 T Tauri stars and one new embedded protostar is far larger than the previously reported few intermediate-mass and two protostellar members of the cloud.
14. YSO candidates in IRAS 20319+3958
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/599/A37
Title:
YSO candidates in IRAS 20319+3958
Short Name:
J/A+A/599/A37
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
Globules and pillars, impressively revealed by the Spitzer and Herschel satellites, for example, are pervasive features found in regions of massive star formation. Studying their embedded stellar populations can provide an excellent laboratory to test theories of triggered star formation and the features that it may imprint on the stellar aggregates resulting from it. We studied the globule IRAS 20319+3958 in Cygnus X by means of visible and near-infrared imaging and spectroscopy, complemented with mid-infrared Spitzer/IRAC imaging, in order to obtain a census of its stellar content and the nature of its embedded sources. Our observations show that the globule contains an embedded aggregate of about 30 very young (<~1Myr) stellar objects, for which we estimate a total mass of ~90M_{sun}_. The most massive members are three systems containing early B-type stars. Two of them most likely produced very compact HII regions, one of them being still highly embedded and coinciding with a peak seen in emission lines characterising the photon dominated region (PDR). Two of these three systems are resolved binaries, and one of those contains a visible Herbig Be star. An approximate derivation of the mass function of the members of the aggregate gives hints of a slope at high masses shallower than the classical Salpeter slope, and a peak of the mass distribution at a mass higher than that at which the widely adopted log-normal initial mass function peaks. The emission distribution of H_2_ and Brackett gamma, tracing the PDR and the ionised gas phase, respectively, suggests that molecular gas is distributed as a shell around the embedded aggregate, filled with centrally-condensed ionised gas. Both, the morphology and the low excitation of the HII region, indicate that the sources of ionisation are the B stars of the embedded aggregate, rather than the external UV field caused by the O stars of Cygnus OB2. The youth of the embedded cluster, combined with the isolation of the globule, suggests that star formation in the globule was triggered by the passage of the ionisation front.