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DG Tau射电喷流的VLA观测:高度准直的热外流

VLA Observations of DG Tau's Radio Jet: A highly collimated thermal outflow

C. Lynch, R. L. Mutel, M. Güdel, T. Ray, S. L. Skinner, P. C. Schneider, K. G. Gayley

摘要:

活跃的年轻原恒星DG Tau有一个扩展的喷流,已经在无线电,光学和X射线波长进行了很好的研究。我们报告敏感的新的VLA全极化观测的核心和射流之间的5 GHz和8 GHz的。我们在8 GHz的高角分辨率观测清楚地显示了一个尺寸为42 AU(0.35”)的非偏振内喷流,其沿着与光学X射线外喷流相似的位置角延伸。使用我们几乎同时代的2012年VLA观测,我们发现光谱指数=+0.46+/-0.05,加上缺乏偏振,与韧致辐射(自由-自由)发射一致,没有证据表明非热日冕成分。通过将射电喷流的末端确定为光学深度统一面,并计算由此产生的发射测量,我们发现我们的射电结果与以前的电子密度和随之而来的质量损失率的光学线研究是一致的。我们还在距离喷流底部7英寸的5 GHz处检测到一个弱射电结,与Rodriguez等人(2012)在2009年检测到的内部射电结一致,但表面亮度较低。我们解释这是由于膨胀的冲击后电离气体在三年之间的观测。

英文摘要:

The active young protostar DG Tau has an extended jet that has been well studied at radio, optical, and X-ray wavelengths. We report sensitive new VLA full-polarization observations of the core and jet between 5 GHz and 8 GHz. Our high angular resolution observation at 8 GHz clearly shows an unpolarized inner jet with a size 42 AU (0.35") extending along a position angle similar to the optical-X ray outer jet. Using our nearly coeval 2012 VLA observations, we find a spectral-index=+0.46+/-0.05, which combined with the lack of polarization, is consistent with bremsstrahlung (free-free) emission, with no evidence for a non-thermal coronal component. By identifying the end of the radio jet as the optical depth unity surface, and calculating the resulting emission measure, we find our radio results are in agreement with previous optical line studies of electron density and consequent mass-loss rate. We also detect a weak radio knot at 5 GHz located 7" from the base of the jet, coincident with the inner radio knot detected by Rodriguez et al. (2012) in 2009 but at lower surface brightness. We interpret this as due to expansion of post-shock ionized gas in the three years between observations.

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