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Nature of highly extended CS(J=7-6) emission around low-mass protostar L483

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 September 2016

Gigi Leung
Affiliation:
Department of Physics, University of Hong Kong, Pok Fu Lam, Hong Kong email: jjlim@hku.hk
Jeremy Lim
Affiliation:
Department of Physics, University of Hong Kong, Pok Fu Lam, Hong Kong email: jjlim@hku.hk
Shigehisa Takakuwa
Affiliation:
Academia Sinica Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics, P.O. Box23-141, Taipei 10617, Taiwan email: takakuwa@asiaa.sinica.edu.tw
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Abstract

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Single-dish observations in CS(J=7-6) using the Atacama Submillimeter Telescope Experiment (ASTE) reveal emission extending out to thousands of AU from low-mass protostars, much larger than is expected based on simple models for their envelopes. Hypotheses for this emission invoke gas dispersed from the envelope surfaces facing the bipolar outflow cavities. Here, we combine interferometric data from the Submillimeter Array (SMA) with the previous single-dish data from ASTE for the low-mass protostar L483 to study the spatial-kinematic structure of its CS(J=7-6) emission on projected scales ≳600 AU. In addition to providing more detailed information for the extended component, our combined maps reveal a compact central component in CS(J=7-6) having a steeper velocity gradient. Both the compact and extended components exhibit a velocity gradient in the opposite sense to that of a bipolar molecular outflow traced in CO(J=2-1). Finding that previous models make a number of wrong predictions for the observed features, we propose that both CS(J=7-6) components are produced by rotating and infalling gas along the envelope surfaces exposed by the bipolar outflow and therefore subjected to stellar irradiation and outflow compression.

Type
Poster Papers
Copyright
Copyright © International Astronomical Union 2016 

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