Issue |
A&A
Volume 522, November 2010
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Article Number | A78 | |
Number of page(s) | 14 | |
Section | Interstellar and circumstellar matter | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/200912573 | |
Published online | 04 November 2010 |
The circumstellar environment of the YSO TMR-1 and a revisit to the candidate very low-mass object TMR-1C*
1
European Southern Observatory,
Karl-Schwarzschild-Str. 2,
85748
Garching,
Germany
e-mail: mpetr@eso.org
2
Laboratoire d’Astrophysique de Marseille, OAMP, Université
Aix-Marseille & CNRS, 38 rue Frédéric Joliot Curie, 13388
Marseille Cedex 13,
France
3
Centre for Astrophysics and Planetary Science, University of Kent,
Canterbury,
Kent
CT2 7NR,
UK
4
European Southern Observatory, Casilla 19001, Santiago 19, Chile
Received:
26
May
2009
Accepted:
27
July
2010
Context. TMR-1 (IRAS 04361+2547) is a class I proto-stellar source located in the nearby Taurus star-forming region. Its circumstellar environment is characterized by extended dust emission with complex structures and conspicuous filaments. A faint companion, called TMR-1C, located near the proto-star was detected in previous studies, but its nature as a very young substellar object remains inconclusive.
Aims. We aim to improve the constraints on the nature of the faint object TMR-1C, and to investigate the process of very low-mass star formation in the TMR-1 system.
Methods. Using very sensitive infrared imaging observations of the TMR-1 system and near-infrared spectroscopy, we compile the spectral energy distribution (SED) of TMR-1C over a much wider wavelength range than possible in previous work. We then compare the spectral energy distribution with models of extincted background stars, young sub-stellar objects, and very low-mass stars with circumstellar disk and envelope emission. We also search for additional low-luminosity sources in the immediate environment of the TMR-1 proto-stellar source. Furthermore, we study the surrounding near-infrared dust morphology, and analyse the emission line spectrum of a filamentary structure in the physical context of a bow-shock model.
Results. We find that the observed SED of TMR-1C can be reproduced by neither an extincted background star, nor available models for a young extremely low-mass (≲12 MJ) object. Our near-infrared spectrum allows us to infer an effective temperature ≳3000 K. We achieve a close fit of TMR-1C’s SED using radiation transfer models of young stellar objects with circumstellar disks, hence propose that TMR-1C is most likely a very low-mass star with M ≈ 0.1−0.2 M⊙ surrounded by a circumstellar disk of high inclination, i > 80°. Interestingly, we detect an additional very faint source, which we call TMR-1D, that is remarkably symmetrical in terms of position with TMR-1C. Both TMR-1C and TMR-1D may have formed from a common star-formation event, triggered by a powerful outflow or by the collision of primordial proto-stellar disks. The impact of an outflow is traced by molecular hydrogen emission that we detect from a distinct filament pointing towards TMR-1C. A comparison with C-type bow shock models confirms that the emission is caused by shock excitation.
Key words: stars: formation / stars: pre-main sequence / circumstellar matter / stars: low-mass / stars: individual: IRAS 04361+2547 / Shock waves
© ESO, 2010
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