Issue |
A&A
Volume 393, Number 2, October II 2002
|
|
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Page(s) | 585 - 595 | |
Section | Interstellar and circumstellar matter | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20021056 | |
Published online | 23 September 2002 |
Bright CO ro-vibrational emission lines in the class I source GSS 30 IRS1*
Probing the inner disk of a young embedded star
1
Leiden Observatory, PO Box 9513, 2300 RA Leiden, The Netherlands
2
Institut d'Astrophysique Spatiale, Bât. 121, Université Paris XI, 91405 Orsay Cedex, France
Corresponding author: K. Pontoppidan, pontoppi@strw.leidenuniv.nl
Received:
16
April
2002
Accepted:
12
July
2002
We present a
spectrum of the low mass class I young stellar object GSS 30 IRS1 (
)
in the ρ Ophiuchus core, observed with the infrared spectrometer (ISAAC) on the Very Large Telescope (VLT-UT1).
Strong line emission from the ro-vibrational transitions of
and
is detected. In total more than 40 distinct
lines are seen in the covered region. The line emission is spatially extended
and detected up to
from the central source but is spectrally unresolved (
).
This is the first time strong emission in the fundamental ro-vibrational band from CO has been observed from an embedded young stellar object.
The line fluxes were modeled using a 1-dimensional full radiative transfer code, which
shows that the emission is fully consistent with a gas in LTE at a single
well constrained temperature (
). Furthermore, the ratios
between lines from the two detected isotopic species of CO show that
the
lines must be optically thick. However, this is
inconsistent with the observed spatial extent of the emission, since this
implies such low CO column densities that the lines are optically thin. A likely solution to the discrepancy is that the lines
are emitted by a smaller more dense region and then scattered
in the bipolar cavity present around the central star. This gives a rough estimate
of the total molecular gas mass of
and a physical extent of
~
AU.
We propose that the most likely origin of the line emission is post-shocked gas in a dense dissociative accretion shock from the inner
AU of a circumstellar disk. The presence of a shock capable of dissociating molecules in the disk will have
implications for the chemical evolution of disks around young low mass stars.
Key words: line: formation / radiative transfer / stars: formation / ISM: individual objects: GSS 30 IRS1 / ISM: molecules
© ESO, 2002
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