Hostname: page-component-78c5997874-94fs2 Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-11-17T14:36:08.120Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false

A Search for Disks around Massive Young Stellar Objects

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 September 2016

A. G. Gibb
Affiliation:
Univ of Maryland, Dept of Astronomy, College Park, MD 20742, USA
M. G. Hoare
Affiliation:
Univ of Leeds, Dept of Physics and Astronomy, Leeds, LS2 9JT, UK
L. G. Mundy
Affiliation:
Univ of Maryland, Dept of Astronomy, College Park, MD 20742, USA
F. Wyrowski
Affiliation:
Max Planck Institut für Radioastronomie, Auf dem Hügel 69, Bonn D-53121, Germany

Abstract

Core share and HTML view are not available for this content. However, as you have access to this content, a full PDF is available via the ‘Save PDF’ action button.

We present subarcsecond observations at 2.7 and 1.4 mm of a sample of massive young stellar objects made with the BIMA millimetre array. For most sources the continuum emission on the smallest scales at 2.7 mm is dominated by free-free emission from the stellar wind or jet. Strong emission at 1.4 mm shows the presence of significant dust associated with Cep A and GL 490 but our resolution is not sufficient to resolve any structure. The 2.7-mm emission from GL 490 is resolved but it is not clear whether we are seeing a single circumstellar disk or a secondary companion, although near-infrared data support the disk hypothesis. Estimates of the dust mass yield values of ∼1–4 M within radii of 150 to 1000 AU.

Type
Part 8: Disks
Copyright
Copyright © Astronomical Society of the Pacific 2004 

References

Garay, G.M., Ramírez, S., Rodríguez, L.F., Curiel, S., Torrelles, J.M. 1996, ApJ, 459, 193 CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Gaume, R.A., Goss, W.M., Dickel, H.R., Wilson, T.L., Johnston, K.J. 1995, ApJ, 438, 776 Google Scholar
Hoare, M.G. 2002, in ASP Conf. Ser. Vol. 267, The Earliest Stages of Massive Star Birth, ed Crowther, P.A. (San Francisco: ASP), 137 Google Scholar
Hoare, M.G., Glindemann, A., Richichi, A. 1996, in The Role of Dust in the Formation of Stars, ESO Proc, ed Käufl, H.U. & Siebenmorgen, R. (Berlin: Springer-Verlag), 35 Google Scholar
Looney, L.W., Mundy, L.G., Welch, W.J. 2000, ApJ, 529, 477 Google Scholar
Mehringer, D.M., Zhou, S., Dickel, H.R. 1997, ApJ, 475, L57 Google Scholar
Mundy, L.G., Adelman, G. 1988, ApJ, 329, 907 Google Scholar
Mundy, L.G., Looney, L.W., Welch, W.J. 2000, in Protostars and Planets IV, ed Mannings, V.G., Boss, A.P. & Russell, S.S. (Tucson: University of Arizona Press), 355 Google Scholar
Schreyer, K., Henning, T., van der Tak, F.F.S., Boonman, A.M.S., van Dishoeck, E.F. 2002, A&A, 394, 561 Google Scholar
Shepherd, D.S., Claussen, M.J., Kurtz, S.E. 2001, Science, 292, 1513 Google Scholar
Welch, W.J., et al. 1996, PASP, 108, 93 Google Scholar
Zhang, Q., Hunter, T.R., Sridharan, T.K. 1998, ApJ, 505, L151 Google Scholar