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L1551 IRS5原恒星系统中的多重双极分子流出

Multiple Bipolar Molecular Outflows in the L1551 IRS5 Protostellar System

Po-Feng Wu, Shigehisa Takakuwa, Jeremy Lim

摘要:

多原恒星系统L1551 IRS 5表现出大规模的双极分子外流。我们用亚毫米波阵列研究了其驱动源~4000 AU范围内的外流。我们的CO(2-1)图像在~4”(~560 AU)分辨率下显示了三个不同的组成部分:1)一个X形结构,距离中心约20”,具有与大尺度外流相似的对称轴和速度模式; 3)一个距离中心约1.4”的紧凑中心分量,其对称轴和速度分布与大尺度外流相似。X形的部分可能包括两个主要原恒星部分流出的流出物所挖出的锥形空腔的边缘变亮的壁。致密的中心成分可能包括新携带的物质,由两个主要的原恒星成分的一个或两个流出物。S形分量很可能包含一个旋进外流,其对称轴与其他两个分量相比,相对于天空平面的倾斜方向相反。这种外流可能是由最近报道的L1551 IRS 5中的候选第三个原恒星组件驱动的,其拱星盘相对于两个主要的原恒星组件错位。这颗原恒星与其更大质量的北邻恒星之间的引力相互作用可能导致了星周盘的进动,从而导致了这颗原恒星的外流。

英文摘要:

The multiple protostellar system L1551 IRS5 exhibits a large-scale bipolar molecular outflow. We have studied this outflow within ~4000 AU of its driving source(s) with the SubMillimeter Array. Our CO(2-1) image at ~4" (~560 AU) resolution reveals three distinct components: 1) an X-shaped structure spanning ~20" from center with a similar symmetry axis and velocity pattern as the large-scale outflow; 2) an S-shaped structure spanning ~10" from center also with an opposite velocity pattern to the large-scale outflow; and 3) a compact central component spanning ~1.4" from center again with a similar symmetry axis and velocity pattern as the large-scale outflow. The X-shaped component likely comprises the limb-brightened walls of a cone-shaped cavity excavated by the outflows from the two main protostellar components. The compact central component likely comprises material newly entrained by one or both outflows from the two main protostellar components. The S-shaped component mostly likely comprises a precessing outflow with its symmetry axis inclined in the opposite sense to the plane of the sky than the other two components. This outflow may be driven by a recently reported candidate third protostellar component in L1551 IRS5, whose circumstellar disk is misaligned relative to the two main protostellar components. Gravitational interactions between this protostellar component and its more massive northern neighbor may be causing the circumstellar disk and hence outflow of this component to precess.

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