Issue |
A&A
Volume 439, Number 3, September I 2005
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Page(s) | 1023 - 1032 | |
Section | Interstellar and circumstellar matter | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20042411 | |
Published online | 12 August 2005 |
Dynamical and chemical properties of the “starless” core L1014
1
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, 60 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
2
Università degli Studi di Firenze, Dipartimento di Astronomia e Scienza dello Spazio, Largo E. Fermi 5, 50125 Firenze, Italy e-mail: crapsi@arcetri.astro.it
3
University of Texas at Austin, 1 University Station C1400, Austin, TX 78712-0259, USA
4
Leiden Observatory, PO Box 9513, 2300 RA Leiden, The Netherlands
5
Max-Planck-Institut für Radioastronomie (MPIfR), Bonn, Germany
6
Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute, 61-1 Hwaam-dong, Yusung-gu, Daejon 305-348, Korea
7
National Radio Astronomical Observatory, PO Box 0, Socorro, NM 87801, USA
Received:
22
November
2004
Accepted:
28
January
2005
Spitzer Space Telescope observations of a point-like source, L1014-IRS,
close to the dust peak of the low-mass dense core L1014, have raised questions about its
starless nature. These show the presence of an object with colors expected for an
embedded protostar with the implication that L1014-IRS would be the lowest luminosity isolated
protostar known, and an ideal target with which to test star formation
theories at the low mass end.
In order to study its molecular content and to search for the presence of a molecular outflow,
we mapped L1014 in at least one transition of 12CO, N2H+ , HCO+ , CS, and of their
isotopologues 13CO, C18O, C17O
, N2D+ , and H13CO+ ,
using the Five College Radio Astronomy Observatory (FCRAO),
the IRAM 30 m antenna, and the Caltech Submillimeter Observatory (CSO).
The data show physical and chemical properties in L1014 typical of moderately evolved
dense cores: i.e. H2 central density of a few 105 molecules cm-3 , estimated
mass of ~2
, CO integrated depletion factor less than 10,
N(N2H+
cm-2 , N(N2D+)/N(N2H+) equal to 10%, and relatively broad N2H+ and N2D+ lines (0.35 km s-1 ).
Infall signatures and significant velocity shifts between
optically thick and optically thin tracers are not observed in the line profiles.
No classical signatures of molecular outflow are found in the 12CO and 13CO FCRAO observations.
In particular, no high velocity wings are found, and no well-defined blue-red lobes of 12CO emission are
seen in the channel maps.
Sensitive, higher resolution observations will clarify the presence of
a molecular outflow on a smaller scale than that probed by our observations.
Key words: ISM: clouds / ISM: evolution / ISM: individual objects: L1014 / ISM: molecules / ISM: jets and outflows / stars: formation
© ESO, 2005
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