arXivDaily arXiv每日学术速递 周一至周五更新
arXiv周末暂无论文更新,休息一下吧,周末愉快~~
arXiv 0909.0691astro-ph.SR
收藏

热的高质量吸积盘候选者

Hot high-mass accretion disk candidates

H. Beuther, A. J. Walsh, S. N. Longmore

摘要:

为了更好地理解高质量恒星形成过程中吸积盘的物理性质,我们利用澳大利亚望远镜紧凑阵列(ATCA)在NH 3(4,4)和(5,5)谱线上对12个高质量吸积盘候选者进行了高空间分辨率观测研究.几乎所有的来源都检测到NH3,直接与CH3OH II类脉泽发射。在剩下的11个来源中,有6个显示出清晰的旋转和/或下落运动的特征。这些签名从垂直于流出的速度梯度变化,对超紧凑的HII区域的吸收下降签名,发射更多的球形下降签名。虽然我们的空间分辨率是~1000 AU,但我们没有在任何来源中找到清晰的开普勒签名。此外,我们也没有发现扁平结构。与此相反,在几个具有旋转特征的源中,空间结构近似为球形,大小超过10^4天文单位,在更小的尺度上显示出相当大的星团子结构。这意味着平均而言,典型的开普勒吸积盘--如果它们如预期的那样存在--应该局限于通常小于1000天文单位的区域。这些圆盘很可能是由我们在这里观察到的大尺度旋转包络结构提供的。此外,我们确实在大多数视场中检测到1.25厘米连续辐射。

英文摘要:

To better understand the physical properties of accretion disks in high-mass star formation, we present a study of a 12 high-mass accretion disk candidates observed at high spatial resolution with the Australia Telescope Compact Array (ATCA) in the NH3 (4,4) and (5,5) lines. Almost all sources were detected in NH3, directly associated with CH3OH Class II maser emission. From the remaining eleven sources, six show clear signatures of rotation and/or infall motions. These signatures vary from velocity gradients perpendicular to the outflows, to infall signatures in absorption against ultracompact HII regions, to more spherical infall signatures in emission. Although our spatial resolution is ~1000AU, we do not find clear Keplerian signatures in any of the sources. Furthermore, we also do not find flattened structures. In contrast to this, in several of the sources with rotational signatures, the spatial structure is approximately spherical with sizes exceeding 10^4 AU, showing considerable clumpy sub-structure at even smaller scales. This implies that on average typical Keplerian accretion disks -- if they exist as expected -- should be confined to regions usually smaller than 1000AU. It is likely that these disks are fed by the larger-scale rotating envelope structure we observe here. Furthermore, we do detect 1.25cm continuum emission in most fields of view.

机构、总结、中文摘要均由AI分析而来,可能存在错误,请以论文正文为准。

↑